FR-CRM Monitoring TAC

AGENDA & MINUTES

5/20/02

1. Review SWAMP contract budget

(swamp accountability?) The state has developed a SWAMP QAP that we should use.

2. Review ’99 and ’01 watershed monitoring data and data mgmt.

- macroinvertebrate data – go to RIVPAC? – get Roby input for next sampling season

- Convert to relational database? – Leslie should get assistance in database management – the contract has a line item in it for this. Basic organizational unit should still be streams.

- Needs for display on the web – summaries or full, query-able?

- What are the shortcomings?

- What to present at Steering mtg? – Objective and scope of program, status, data collected so far, intentions for management, compiling and reporting data, where we go from here.

- DWR to analyze bed load samples from 99

3. What data, and if, to collect in 2003 & how to format

- Improve coordination with FS (Butt, Red Clover, others?) - revisit next year before new data collection effort

- pebble count protocol (Jan. 2002 Streamnotes) - same

4. Involving PUSD – table

5. Gage sites – increase number and survey them in

6. Accuracy at Wolf (beaver) and DWR (ice) sites – We often have problems at sites. Agreed to keep these sites as is, but note the problems as caveats with any display of data.

7. Sediment monitoring (review narrative) – TMDL’s – change the goal in the narrative – it isn’t sources of erosion, its baseline load existing condition. Ideal would be to use the data to develop a sediment budget for specific watersheds, nested like our monitoring program. Would like to be able to say –“at X location, y tons of sediment were transported in year 20ZZ.” The continuous recording turbidity meters should help with that if we keep them calibrated with actual TSS measurements during storms. Problem is with measuring TSS during storms –its expensive. Maybe we can just do calibration measurements, and not have to measure the whole storm. We need to evaluate the accuracy and usefulness of the continuous turbidity recorders we put in in fall 2001.

8. Weather Stations and back up systems – new station to go in at T-ville old school site; also another new one in Last Chance watershed at Jordan. Need to install solar radiation at all sites (and retrofit Doyle with same) Also need to install evap at T-ville. Kevin also going to retrofit Doyle with a grounding wire, and put one on new stations, which should fix breakdowns we’ve been having.

9. Mike Kossow cross-sections - table

10. Project monitoring:

- pre-project @ Humbug Charles (fish WQ, photos)

- hobo temps into Spanish Cr SWAMP $

- pre-project @ Poplar (fish, habitat typing, bugs)

- veg monitoring @ Ward

- continue well reading at Last Chance, Stone Dairy, Hosselkus, Clarks

- veg monitoring at Last Chance, Clarks (continue), Hosselkus (new)

- continue Big Flat w/ Sagraves – just measuring flows, not wells

- DWR doing post-project wildlife at Clarks

- September flight photos

- what else? ADD: UP&DOWNSTREAM HOBOTEMPS IN PROJECTS (FERRIS)

11. New Sulphur Station & citizen monitoring