December 3, 2001 11:00 Plumas Corp. Office

In attendance: Leslie Mink, Terry Benoit, Mike DeLasaux, Dennis Heiman, Cris Bailey, Jim Wilcox, Dave Bogener

a. Greenhorn Cr. 2001 fish monitoring data – Richard Flint electroshocked the creek, but was unable to attend the meeting. Will report at a future meeting.

b. Temperature data analysis – Leslie wondering if there is an excel macro already in use to analyze hobotemp data. Dennis would like to see MWAT, diurnal variation, and absolute max. stats. Need to extend temperature data collection to more projects. In the absence of pre-project data, put hobotemps in one mile upstream, at top of project, and at bottom of project. Terry Benoit would like to see January temps in project areas, to show that riparian improvement due to projects also helps keep winter water temperatures warmer.

d. Big Flat well monitoring – the upshot of the discussion was to keep monitoring the wells thru next field season, but perhaps we have gathered the information we wanted from them, and there is no need to upgrade existing wells for further monitoring. If we do want to continue, perhaps we get fund it through the possible CALFED grant with Lev Kavvas that will be modeling the Last Chance watershed. Also, Last Chance project monitoring wells are correlated with veg. transects so that we can correlate groundwater level changes with veg changes, and maybe in the future we won’t have to put monitoring wells in our projects. Clarks wells are also veg correlated. It was also noted that if there is a gage put in the ponds in our pond and plug projects, that can be used to measure ground water levels. Another possible technology to use for measuring ground water levels is the “ground penetrating radar”. Greg White at DWR has used one.

e. web page interactive tour – Chico computer fried. After meeting, Leslie talked to Dennis, and we decided to advertise for bids for someone to replace the interactive tour map, and link our data files to points on the map.

f. SCI reach overhead photos – no need to make special overhead flight. Terry Benoit will try and get CD’s of the Plumas NF’s year 2000 ortho photos.

g. Weather Station PG&E property update – didn’t get to this item. At mgmt. mtg., Kevin Pond agreed to go up to the existing Doyle weather station and try and fix the malfunctions that have started to occur in the last two weeks.

h. Indian Cr new DWR station responsibilities – Station is not all the way installed yet. Andy Corry is responsible for this station. At this point, seems like no CRM responsibilities.

i. T-ville continuous recording station – County re-routed creek for bridge seismic retrofit. Tim Sagraves took out monitoring equipment out. He will replace it this week, and will also install one of our two experimental nephelometers there.

j. Continuous recording on Spanish at Gansner – Tim just installed the station last week. Station includes the other experimental nephelometer. Tim will be calibrating both stations. We also have calibration technology through the water lab at the PNF S.O.

k. FRC real time data ccess and web data mgmt – not discussed – no FRC reps at meeting

l. Status of SWAMP contract $ - a few weeks back, the state was looking for $ to fund other things. They asked about SWAMP $, but have not asked again. Maybe our contract is safe.

m. Duplicated data collection efforts – did not discuss (should re-visit at the spring meeting)

c. DWR data report by Dave Bogener – Dave presented a lot of data that DWR collected in 2001. Reports were handed out. Leslie has electronic files that should be made available through the website. Data presented included:

- Clarks Creek project monitoring – fish and wildlife baseline (pre-project; year 2000) data with methods for easy duplication. It was mentioned that we should request DWR to re-do the survey in the 2003 field season, which will be two years after construction. The handout did lack a map. The map is in progress, and will be forwarded as soon as it is ready.

- Electroshocked fish population data collected at the seven reference reaches within the Last Chance Creek watershed from 1997 and 2001.

- Electroshocked fish population data and methods collected at 13 of the 19 current watershed SCI reference reaches in 2001.

- Water quality data collected at the 19 current watershed SCI reference reaches in 2001, including physical water quality data, minerals, nutrients, heavy metals, and coliform.

It was also noted that DWR and DFG recently sampled fish flesh from lakes in this watershed for mercury levels. The data should be available soon.