Present: Ken Ekelund, Martha Diehl, Bill Nelson, Matt Weston
(took notes), Richard and Sally Taylor, Lynn Overtree, Lloyd Jones
Update since last meeting- All
Update on Road Assessment Grant- Ken
Prop 13 grant for Watershed Coordinator and
Contractor support- Ken
Non-Profit Corporation- Ken and Sally Taylor
Ken talked about methods of killing Cape Ivy….the
recipe he is using is 4 oz of Brush B Gone and 3 oz of Roundup concentrate per
gallon of water. He has sprayed several pieces of in the lower creek area and
around his house.
Ken talked about David Dilworth complaint. A letter
was sent to the Planning Department and a bunch of other agencies.
Ken talked about Kallie Kull’s work with Fishnet 4-
C. She will be briefing the county officials on recommendations in changing
procedures to address the 4(D) rules for steelhead.
Ken talked about the Citizen’s Monitoring Program. We
are testing water quality at 4 sites along the lower and middle creek area.
Basically, other than turbidity (cloudiness due to sediment in the creek) the
numbers look very good for the steelhead.
Ken will be taking a Hydrology course at CSUMB
starting in late Jan.
Lloyd talked about Cape Ivy work on his property. He
will be getting some Garlon 4 concentrate, which is supposed to be the most
effective herbicide available. He talked about burning Cape Ivy as well. He
pointed out that he recently saw something from CDF that gave the impression
they were still recommending the use of Cape Ivy as a fire retardant cover. The
council will have to look into this.
Martha talked about the need to extend our education
program to realtors. By letting them know that there is an active effort to
improve the condition of the creek, this could actually be a big selling point
for our area.
Martha suggested that the Planning Group members pick
Issues and Concerns they would like to concentrate on; these were listed at the
breakout session during the 16 December meeting. The list as update is included
below.
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Identification of community
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Education of community and public
agencies
o
Watershed issues
o
Real Estate Agents (new-comers)
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Development of New Homes
o
Infrastructure adequate? Are
current standards appropriate?
o
Participation of all residents
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Road Construction
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Road Pass ability
o
Slides
o
Culvert size and spacing
inadequate
o
Maintenance of culverts
o
Energy dissipaters
o
Road side ditch size
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Fire Management
o
Road size, construction- silt
o
Brush clearing- slit
o
Controlled burns- silt, nutrients
o
Cape Ivy – useful or not
ENVIRONMENTAL
INFORMATION AND PLANNING (Ken)
Education
(inward)
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Water Quality
o
E.Coli- Septic, animals
o
Silt- Roads, grading, natural
o
Pesticides- Ag Sources
o
Giardia
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Eradication of Non-Native Species (Lloyd Jones, Sally and Richard Taylor)
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Restoration
o
Stream bed } Following Non-native plant removal
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Upland } Logging roads
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Imbalances
o
Log jams from cut logs
o
Oak tree die-off
o
Lack of fire (45 year cycle)
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Fish Habitat
o
Silt from roads
o
Migration barriers, log jams
o
Lack of deep pools
o
Cape Ivy along streams (toxic)
o
Water quality / Quantity
§
Annual variation
§
Water diversion
§
Runoff from development
Richard talked about access rights to roads and
prescriptive rights-of-way.
Ken talked briefly about the PWA grant. Bill Weaver
has been contacted but doesn’t have a lot of details as far as when the project
will start since they have note officially been notified. (Ken called Bill
after the meeting and it is felt that work might start in April.)
Ken talked about the Prop 13 grant proposal that is
due by 1 February. There was much discussion where the council should make this
application under the Conservation Agency (the Taylors are on that board) for
purposed of receiving the money. (It was determined after the meeting that it
would be OK to submit the proposal under our name; we would receive 501(c)3
status well before the money could be spent.
The Prop 13 grant will fund a watershed coordinator
(60% part-time and consultant and other support).
Sally talked about what will be involved in setting
up a non-profit corporation. She will do some of the background and then will
get help from the rest of the Planning Group. We will need to get the
non-profit status to directly receive funding from grants. (Other agencies
usually take a 10% cut for their overhead)
Action Items:
Ken:
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Submit Prop 13 grant under GCWC name. Several questions to be resolved are
length of grant (1,2 or 3 years) need to be resolved before the grant can go
out.
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Get a turbidity tube to Richard so he can do “daily” measurements
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Get a speaker to talk about why turbidity is a major issue for water quality
and the fish. (This will be discussed at the 11 Feb meeting).
Sally:
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Start the 501(c) process and report at 11 Feb meeting.
All:
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The agenda for the 17 March meeting
Meeting was concluded at
12:30. Thanks for Matt Weston for talking great notes.
Next meeting will be on
SUNDAY 11 Feb at Lloyd Jones house. Time is 2:00.
(Note this is the first
time we are doing it on a day other than Sunday.)