 good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Are we doing good? Do you have Marcy's number? Are we ready? No, it's mine. It's my cell phone, so I just want to make sure. Hey, this is Paul. She's a 415, 297, 297, 2459. That's what I got. Hi, this is Roberta. Hi, Roberta, it's Susan. Are you and Easter ready, Gina? I believe so. We're just upgrading a few more people to panelists, I think. Well, you let me know when you guys are ready and we can begin. Thank you. And Roberta Paul Piazza at Snowmawater just wanted to check in with you regarding Paul Selsky and Katie Ruby. Email from Paul indicates he's joined the meeting and will you be making him a speaker at the agenda point of the meeting or at this time? Yes, I see both of them logged in and we will be upgrading both of them to panelists and then upgrade Paul to a co-host so he can share his screen for that item. Great, thank you. I also noticed that Jack is out in the attendees. Jack, dang. Do we need to upgrade him? Yes, we'll take care of that right now. Thank you. Good morning, Adam. Good morning. Good morning, Jack. Hi, this is Roberta. We also have a couple of phone numbers listed, both area code 4151 ending in 9821 and 1 in 1581. Could you identify who those people are, please? Yeah, this is Gary Anderson from Renwater District on the 1581. Thank you, Mr. Anderson. Can I see a hand raised for the phone number 9821? Can you unmute and speak to us? Sorry, it took me a minute to figure it out. This is Danielle McPherson at the Bay Area Waterside Conservation Agency at the 9821 number. Thank you so much. Thank you. Chair Harvey, I think we're ready to go. All right, thank you so much Roberta and Gina and Easter. We can't do any of this without you guys. So I really appreciate it. I'd like to welcome everybody to the special WAC TAC meeting for this Monday, September 13th. We will do a roll call and I would ask that the members state their name and the city that they're with. And I want to remind folks to mute their phones if they're not speaking and the attendees, Easter will take care of muting those and unmuting those. So with that, may I please have a roll call? Sorry, city of Katadi. Here, Susan Harvey, city Katadi. City of Petaluma. Here, Mike Healy Petaluma. City of Rohnert Park. Here, Willie Linnanis, city of Rohnert Park. City of Santa Rosa. Here, Tom Sweatham, city of Santa Rosa. City of Sonoma. Yeah, Jack Dean. North Marin Water District. President Jack Baker. Town of Windsor. Here, Mike Salmon, town of Windsor. Valley of the Moon Water District. John Foreman, Valley of the Moon Water District. Marin Municipal Water District. Here, Jack Gibson, Marin Municipal. Now the TAC members, city of Katadi. Thanks, Scott. City of Katadi. City of Petaluma. City of Rohnert Park. Here, Grace Pawson, city of Rohnert Park. City of Santa Rosa. Jennifer Burke, Santa Rosa Water. City of Sonoma. Colleen Ferguson, city of Sonoma. North Marin Water District. Drew McIntyre, North Marin Water District. Town of Windsor. Christina Houlart, town of Windsor. Valley of the Moon Water District. Matt Fullner, Valley of the Moon Water District. Marin Municipal Water District. And we also have additional public attendees. From Kahles Sea. Jim Grossi, Peter Martin. Paul Piassa. Pam Jean. fairy Duggan. Toney Williams. G. Anderson. Jay Jaspers. Katie Ruby. Paul Selsky. Frank Davis. Clare Nordley. Nicola Roberts. Brad, Lee Sherwood, Michael Thompson, Mike Elmarini, Sebastian Birch, Shannon Cotula, Steven Hancock, Susan Hayden. Roberta, this is Drew. Could you bring Mike Elmarini in from an attendee to a panelist? He's now the attack representative for City of Petaluma. Yes, I'm promoting him right now. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for that catch, Drew. So are we ready to move on to the next item? The next item is public comments. We're now taking public comment on non-agenda items. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via phone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary Ledesma, I'm not seeing any raised hands. Now is the opportunity if you would like to raise your hand. I'm not seeing any raised hands either. Okay, great. So Drew, did you receive any written or verbal comments? Chair Hari, I did not. Okay, then with that, since there's no public comment, we will bring it back and we will move on to item three. Everyone, I'm sure, has had an opportunity to read the August 2nd Wackentech meeting minutes. Are there any questions or comments on those meeting minutes? Please raise your hand. Not seeing anybody jumping up and down, raising their hand. So now we'll take public comment on the meeting minutes from August 2nd. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via phone, please dial star nine to make a comment on the minutes. Secretary Ledesma, I'm not seeing any hands. Are you? I am not seeing any hands raised. Okay, since there are no comments on that, I would bring it back to the board and ask for a motion. North Marin, move approval. Thank you for that. We have a second. Looks like there was a race. So, we have a motion and a second. Did I ask for a roll call vote, please? Yes. City of Katari? Yes. City of Petaluma? Yes. City of Rona Park? Yes. City of Santa Rosa? Aye. City of Sonoma? Aye. North Marin Water District? Aye. Town of Windsor? Yes. Valley of the Moonwater District? Yes. Okay, looks like we have a unanimous approval of that. So we can move forward and move on to item four, which is to approve the update of the 2014 water shortage allocation methodology. And I believe that, Drew, are you going to comment on this? Yes. Thank you, Chair Harvey. I'm going to kick this off and then there will be a presentation by Sonoma County Water Agency Consultants Brown and Caldwell. I believe it'll both Paul Selsky and Katie will be kind of providing an overview presentation on the model and what the changes are. But before they start, I just want to remind the WAC members that back in April, we had a special WAC meeting and there was an update on the history of the water shortage allocation going back to 2007. Just recall, the restructured agreement was signed in 2006 and in the restructured agreement, they had some section there that essentially indicated that there needed to be a water shortage allocation methodology in place. And the restructured agreement identified some of the provisions that the allocation methodology needed to include. The agency developed an allocation model back in 2007, and that was used for a couple years. And then in 2010, the agency and the tax started working on an update to the allocation methodology, recognizing that the one that the agency was using right out of the gate had some areas that could be improved. And so fast forward from 2010 to 2014 over that three to four year period, the agency and the tax members worked on developing an update to allocation methodology. And it was called the 2014 allocation methodology and the WAC unanimously approved that methodology in 2014. However, it did have a sunset date of two years to allow some more time to address some concerns that were being raised on the human health need calculation, essentially the indoor water use calculation. Concerns were raised that it should not include the commercial industrial institution demands. You'll hear me call those the CII. And unfortunately during that two year period, we did not have enough time to go back and address this issue about the CII. And that's been worked on now this year, the first half of this year on a full court press, if you will. And what the WAC members have in front of them essentially is the 2014 allocation methodology with some miscellaneous updates primarily to address the CII question that was raised and the intent here is to get unanimous approval of this allocation methodology. And that is required by the restructured agreement. And if it's unanimously approved by the WAC members, then it can be presented to the agency and the agency can adopt it. And then we essentially have an updated allocation methodology that's new and improved over the one that the water contractor, not the water contractors, the one that Sonoma County Water Agency has been using since 2007. So with that sort of as the preface then, I'd like to go ahead and turn it over to Paul. Paul, are you going to kick this off and then Katie or is it the other way around? I can say just to, I'm sorry, there's two Pauls. Are you talking to Paul Selsky, Drew? Whichever Paul is appropriate to start this presentation. Yeah, I'm happy to turn it right over to our consultants at Brown Caldwell. I just want to recognize all of the work by the contractors to help us with this update, which got underway in collaboration with the 2020 Urban Water Management Plan. So we have a professional services agreement in place with Brown Caldwell, who did the work to update the model in 2014 as well. So thank you all for your assistance in getting the data needed to update the model and for all the collaborative work that went into the approach for this current iteration. So with that, I just want to introduce Paul Selsky and Katie Ruby at Brown Caldwell to be presenting and to go ahead and take it over, Paul. Okay, and Katie is going to be putting up the slides and I'll be starting off the presentation. Yeah, and I actually don't have screen sharing ability at the moment. Is anyone able to make me a co-host? Roberta, can we make that happen? Yes, yes, just give me one moment. Thank you so much. Ms. Ruby, you should have permission. Yes, I see it. Thank you, Roberta. Thank you. Okay, so I'll start it off. Good morning. So we're here to give you an overview of the water shortage allocation model methodology update. And we're going to cover a little bit of background, the status of the model, the allocation approach, which has two main steps, the human health sanitation and fire flows and the reasonable requirements, and then we'll wrap up with next steps. A little bit on the background, and you heard a little bit about this from Drew, but in 2006, the original annual shortage allocation model was developed based on the restructured agreement. And that was a model that was developed, by the way, by John Olaf Nelson, who I believe was a past general manager in the municipal water district. And just to be clear, it's intended for shortages caused by in-the-river shortage conditions. It doesn't address disruptions of the transmission system, the aqueduct system. And then 2014, there was a resolution adopted to update the model. So the annual model was expanded to include a monthly allocation methodology, and it was put into an Excel-based spreadsheet that any of us could use and share. And then in 2021, additional refinements were made in coordination with the technical advisory committee. And that's what you'll be hearing a little bit about. Okay, so the status is that the model was approved by the WAC to be used through 2016, but it was never adopted by the Sonoma Water Board of Directors. And one outstanding question back in 2014 to 2016 was how the model handles commercial, industrial, and institutional demands known as CII. So this 2021 model had some modifications done to address the CII issue and some other questions. And we collaborated with the TAC ad hoc committee to make these adjustments to the model. So this formula gives you the basic approach to how the allocation works based on how section 3.5 of the restructured agreement describes how it should work. And everybody's allocation, each contractor's allocation is their human health need for Sonoma Water. And if there's any additional supply available from Sonoma Water above the total of everybody's human health need, that is then allocated and added to the health need based on every contractor's entitlement share divided by the total delivery entitlements. And the reasonable requirement is also capped as the maximum allocation that can be provided through this allocation methodology. And you'll hear a little bit more about that. So again, the two key parameters are the human health sanitation and fire flows, and that's the base allocation. And we're considering CII separately now on how that's calculated. And then reasonable requirement is the maximum, it's the cap, the maximum allocation. And one adjustment we've made is that it does not exceed the average three-year use for the previous three years, which is supposed to represent a normal supply. One nuance is Marin Municipal Water District per a separate agreement is capped at four million gallons a day supply for the May to September period of every year. And with that, I'll turn it over to Katie Ruby to take you into some of the additional details on these items. Thanks, Paul. Good morning, everyone. So given that the human health need and the reasonable requirement are those two key elements that Paul touched on, we're going to dig into each of those in a little bit more detail to show how they are determined in the model and to highlight those key changes that we've made in this latest update. And to start, we're going to look at some language from the restructured agreement, which includes some key definitions and really kind of serves as the basis for the allocation methodology. So to start with the human health need, the restructured agreement notes that the human health need shall take into account the hardening of demand and demand hardening essentially reflects that for those customers who have made significant progress in conservation, it can be harder to have additional cutbacks and demands during a shortage. The human health need shall be based on winter water use by all of the water contractors. And then the restructured agreement does allow, if necessary or appropriate, for equitable purposes to consider the commercial and industrial and institutional water use separately. So that's that CII consideration we've been talking about. So to show how this kind of plays out in the model, we are using three-year average indoor water use for each contractor based on January and February water use, since the restructured agreement calls to look at winter demand. And then we've broken out the CII portion separately and only applied the demand hardening adjustment to the non-CII portion of water use, which is essentially residential water use. The indoor or sorry, the human health need also includes fire flow and transmission system losses in the total, which were not included in that original 2006 model. And then we subtract off the local supplies for each contractor to get to the allocation from Sonoma water. And the local supplies, we're currently using 100% of anticipated local supplies as provided by each contractor. The model does have flexibility to also use a percentage of three-year average local supplies. So back in 2014, that's what was used. We looked at three-year average kind of historical data with a provision that those local supply numbers could be updated as information becomes available. So as we've noted, one key change to the human health need this time around is considering CII water use separately. And this slide presents the differences between the three different versions of the models if you want to dig into the calculations further. But essentially, the main thing here is we're applying a demand hardening adjustment only to the non-CII portion of indoor water use, which is essentially residential water use. And the purpose for this is to avoid penalizing customers who have high CII water demand, which would increase the indoor winter water use. And so the way that demand hardening adjustment is applied is essentially contractors with indoor residential per capita water use below the regional average get a boost. So a little bump to their human health need and contractors with high indoor residential water use are brought their human health need is brought down to the regional average. And again, I've noted this time around in 2021, we're subtracting off 100% of the projected local supplies available. So now to pivot and talk about the reasonable requirements. As a reminder, the reasonable requirement serves as the cap on any customer's allocation. And really the intent of the reasonable requirement is to ensure that no customer receives more water during a shortage than they reasonably need. The restructured agreement says that the agency may take into account demand hardening and determining the reasonable requirement, but it's not required like it is for the human health need. But really the intent is to encourage water conservation and local supplies. So how this plays out in the model is we're looking at three year average total water use for each contractor. And that's it. So the reasonable requirement is kept at three year total water use. There's no more demand hardening adjustment in this latest model update. Similar to the human health need, Sonoma water transmission system losses are included in the total. And then we subtract off the local supply numbers to determine the reasonable requirement for Sonoma water supply. And again, if you want to dig into the calculations, here's some more detail on the three different models, but really the only change here is tapping the reasonable requirement at that three year average total water use, which essentially removes the demand hardening adjustment. And the reason we did this is because the demand hardening adjustment, which was included in the previous model actually bumped up some contractors allocations above their actual water use from the past couple of years. And based on the intent of the restructured agreement, it's not reasonable during a shortage event to have more supply than one would use on average. So that's why we made that change in collaboration with the TAC. The slide summarizes the different elements of the three versions of the model. Really, there are a lot of similarities between them. But some of the key differences that we've touched on today are that fire flow and transmission system losses were not included in the original model, but we've since added those in. The other main change is how we are separately considering CII water use and the human health needs. So focusing the demand hardening adjustment on that non-CII portion. We are capping the demand hardening or sorry, capping the reasonable requirement at the three year average use of supplies. So essentially removing the demand hardening adjustment there. And then the last change is how we're considering local supplies. So again, there's flexibility in the model on how this is done. But this time around, we've looked at the actual local supply numbers that are available rather than considering some percentage of past local supplies. So here's a little bit about the model itself. You can see a screenshot here of the interface, but essentially it's an Excel based model. There are several different tabs starting with some instructions and definitions. And then there's a tab for the annual model and the monthly time step model with the ability to input the total supply available from Sonoma water and and provide the percentage of local supplies to be considered. And then there are individual tabs for each customer where the population and and water use data is input. So with that, that concludes our presentation. And Paul and I are happy to take any questions or comments that may arise. And then the next step is to consider approval of the updated methodology. Thank you. Thank you for that Katie and Paul and Paul. The two Pauls and the Katie. So with that, do any of the Wacker attack members have any questions? Easter, I'm not seeing any hands. Are you? I am not seeing any hands raised. Okay, then there are no questions from the Wacken tack. I will open this item for public comment. If you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via phone, please dial star nine to raise your hand Easter. I'm not seeing any public hands being raised. I am not either. You are not either. Okay, then we will close public comment on this item and bring it back. Drew, did you receive any written or verbal comments on this item? Chair Harvey, I did not. You did not. Okay. Then if there are no questions, I appreciate all the work that's gone into this. I know it wasn't easy. I know we've been working on this for a few years and all the work that the tack has done and all the work that the consultants have done and everyone getting us to this point. So with that, I would entertain a motion. I don't want to remove approval. Director in second. Okay, so we have a motion and a second. Easter and Gina and Roberta, did you get the first and second? Yes, Mr. Healy and Mr. Baker. Perfect. Then I would ask for a roll call vote on this item. City of Katari? Yes. City of Petaluma? Yes. City of Rona Park? Yes. City of Santa Rosa? Aye. City of Sonoma? Aye. North Marin Water District? Aye. Town of Windsor? Yes. Valley of the Moonwater District? Yes. Wonderful. Thank you. It looks like we have a new methodology. And again, thanks to all for getting us to this point. I know it was not without struggles. So appreciate everybody cooperating and getting us there. So with that, we can move on to item five, the Snom County Water Agency Climate Adaption Plan Draft. And I believe that Dale Roberts is going to present this to us. Hi, this is Dale Roberts. Can you hear me okay? Yes. Perfect. Okay. Do you want me to share, can I share my screen? Am I able to do that? I would believe that. That could be possible, right Roberta? Yes, he should be able to share your screen now. Could I, before you start, it looks like Jay has his hand up. Jay Jaspers, can we see what Jay needs? Jay, you are able to talk. Okay, thank you. Yeah, I was going to kick this item off. That was it. Sure. Oh, perfect. Go for it. All right. Good morning WAC members. Jay Jaspers from Sonoma Water and just wanted to kick off this presentation with Dale Roberts, who's our project manager for this Climate Adaptation Plan and also acknowledge Jacob's engineering, especially Armin Munivar and his team for the hard work that they've been engaged in over the last few years in helping us develop this comprehensive climate adaptation plan. We've presented this to the TAC a couple of times in the past with updates on the process. And we're planning to take this plan to our board for approval on October 19th. And so, Dale, are you running the slides? I believe we gave him permission to do that. Yeah, can you see the side deck? Yes, we can. Okay. Where is that bridge, Dale? Which bridge is that? Is that... Don, is that... That's not how it's the end, is it? That's... I'm not recognizing it, but boy, I wish we had water like that. You'll get it again and it won't be fun. Aspirational. Okay. So, anyway, our water, Sonoma Waters Climate Adaptation Plan really recognizes that in our region in the North Bay, in Sonoma County for sure, has experienced a significant amount of climate-driven impacts and will continue to do so in the past. We all know that we have an extreme high level of variability in our climate, and certainly the climate forecasts for the global climate models indicate that these climate drivers are going to become more significant. And in what our Climate Adaptation Plan attempts to do, it's very comprehensive in covering all of our business operations from flood control, sanitation, our administrative functions, and notably our water transmission and water supply enterprises. We're going to focus today on that latter for obvious reasons, but I just wanted to make sure that you are aware that our Climate Adaptation Plan is comprehensive for all of our business operations. Next slide. And, okay, this slide shows a report, a published paper that came out in 2018 from Tom Coringham that evaluated the proportion of economic losses due to atmospheric rivers and for the 11 western states, and it looked at the damages, recurrent flood damages, for FEMA on a county by county basis. Go back one slide, please. Thank you. And what I want to show here is that close to 99, 98% of the damages for flood in Sonoma County in our region were due to these atmospheric river events, which you've heard us talk about before. And then the table in the lower right shows that over the last 40 years, Sonoma County's suffered $5.2 billion of damages due to recurrent flood damages. And that is the highest of any county in the 11 western states. The second county for damages is Los Angeles County. So Sonoma County definitely is impacted greatly by these atmospheric river events or flooding. And then also, as we've known the last two years, when we don't have these events, we go straight to droughts and significant droughts at that. Next slide. This just shows, of course, what we all know, the wildfires and some of the most significant wildfires and fires in California have occurred in our region, in the North Bay region. And this just illustrates that. Next slide. Sonoma water has several ongoing efforts focused on climate adaptation. We have partnered with a lot of research and academic institutions and federal agencies to better understand the latest in climate science. And so that we are well versed and can take in the latest information, the latest tools that are available into our operations and our operational models so that we can be as prepared as possible and utilize and take advantage of the most recent advances in science. Some projects that we have been involved with, we've talked about forecast and form reservoir operations, which really can provide water supply benefits and flood control benefits by using this information, the latest science and tools in how we and the core of engineers operate our reservoirs. Advanced quantitative precipitation information is another partnership that we help lead with partners from several of the major Bay Area water management and water utilities to better forecast the near term forecasting for atmospheric rivers to help prepare ourselves for flooding that is caused by these atmospheric rivers. Our fire camera alert system, we initiated that in the North Bay to help us more proactively manage and really for first responders and fire agencies such as Cal Fire to have better information to support situational awareness and logistical support. And we have several other projects here. I'll just point out the water supply resiliency study, which is a collaboration with our water contractors that we're actively engaged in and that focuses on water shortages in our regional system from Potter Valley down to basically Sausalito and really looks at developing a model to apply stress tests, water shortage stress tests, either through seismic events or through drought and then are really examining and working together to see if there are any projects we can do to build resiliency against those shortages. We're very active now again with Jacobs and Armin and his team with all the water contractors in implementing this study, pushing forward the drought scenarios and setting aside right now the earthquake scenarios for later given the current circumstances. So anyway, this just gives you an idea of some of the projects and programs we're involved with to build our climate resiliency. Next slide. Again, this is our climate adaptation plan covers our water transmission, wastewater and flood enterprises and there are several areas of overlap. In other words, we really look to seek solutions and adaptation programs that can help multiple areas of our business enterprises. For example, flood control and water supply. If we can recharge some of that winter water, that will help with flood control, but it will also help us with the water supply aspects and recycle water using more recycled water. Not only helps the sanitation resiliency, but it also helps from water supply too, of course. Next slide. This is my last slide. These are some of our projected climate and hydrologic changes for the region and our climate adaptation plan goes into some detail on the latest studies and modeling for this and we all know that the temperature is forecasted to increase here and everywhere and that has certainly its local impacts in terms of water use and wildfire impacts. Sea level rise, of course, will impact us both on the San Pablo Bay, but also on the Pacific Ocean coast also, especially out by Jenner. Precipitation is variable and when you look at regionally, some areas may experience drier conditions in the future and some will be wetter. Our region, it's a bit of a mixed bag depending on what the climate models you look at, but what the climate models are consistent is that we will have increased variability. That means we will have increased precipitation intensity and likely higher flood intensity and we at the same time will have higher recurrence and intensity of droughts. The reason for that is because these atmospheric rivers, all of the climate models predict that these atmospheric rivers will play a greater role in our future climate either by their presence or lack thereof, which then produce the droughts and the flooding impacts and risks that we will face and continue to face into the future for our facilities and our operations. Of course, wildfire, again with increased temperature and increased drier conditions during periods of the future, we've already all are well versed in that hazard and threat that we face here. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Dale to finish out the presentation. Thanks everyone. Thanks. I'm Dale Roberts with the Sonoma County Water Agency. Thanks everyone for being here today. I'll get through the rest of these so we can get to any questions you may have. Jay talked about the various climate threats, the increases in temperature, sea level rise, the variability in precipitation and the likes and so we paired those in a vulnerability assessment across each of our core functions of water supply, flood management and sanitation, which is the old school term for wastewater, and looked at how each of those parameters would impact each of those core functions of ours. Then of course, vulnerability is the sensitivity of that climate threat times how well that system can adapt to it. But in addition to that, we also looked at deeper dive at the risk assessment than what is the consequence of that climate threat and the risk being the product of the consequence times the likelihood of it, and can you do something about it at that point, which leads to the next step, which was looking at each of our systems. We did this table similar to this or an assessment similar to this for all of our water supply, flood control and sanitation system. These are sort of the major systems, how we broke down our whole water supply system. Most of you have seen some of these facilities, they may even be near you, Mirabelle and Waller, I think you've all been to, if you haven't, we'll take you there, you need to see it. Our chlorination systems and our booster pump systems down the road and way up in the upper water supply in Lake Sonoma and Lake Mendocino and looked at based the vulnerabilities and risks of all those systems. You can see each of the impacts, the temperature rises, sea level rises isn't too bad on the water system, on our sanitation system, our flood management system, sea level rises is a different issue. But as far as water supply goes, that's not a big impact water supply wise. Extreme precipitation, you can see river flooding and of course drought. We're all living that right now. So we looked at across all of our systems, even booster stations and the like. Then we sort of categorized all of those after developing adaptation strategies, categorized them into different groups and grouped them together. We had 70 some odd strategies for each of the water supply flood management and sanitation systems. Circumstantially, each of those core functions neatly divided into five overarching strategies, action strategies for water supply infrastructure, increase operational flexibility, improve the system integration of regional resilience, improve watershed and natural resources management, and continue to advance science and technology as it relates to the water supply system. We'll go into detail in some of these a little later. But I want to point out in the lower left there, you can see regional water supply strategies. That's the resiliency study that Jay was mentioning earlier. You heard reports of that at some of these water advisory committee meetings and technical advisory committee meetings. And over on the right in the pie, that's roughly two to four p.m., we'll say the forecast and form reservoir operations ways to change how you operate, not just what you build, but how do you change how you operate? And so we have been working with Army Corps to change how we operate the releases of flows from each historically Lake Mendocino, but more recently Lake Sonoma. And outside of our own systems, some of these concepts, as Jay was talking about span, not just our different core functions, but expand beyond just what our systems are. We don't control the whole watershed, but just about every drop of water that lands in the watershed and even in the Upper Eel watershed, we want to, has influence on how we operate our systems. So we need to integrate across different sectors, and we need to collaborate with other entities. These are some of the adaptation concept that span more than just what we can control and they require collaboration with others, or they require collaboration amongst those different enterprises between water, flood control, and sanitation. And with that, what we were going to say earlier was that the schedule now is we're going to our board on October 19th with the final climate adaptation plan for approval. And you can see the emails of Jay, myself and Armin of Jacob's engineering, if you have any questions. So with that, Chair Harvey or Drew, I'll go back to you guys and see if you have any questions. But let me first see if Grant or Jay want to add anything at this point. No, Dale, I think you and Jay have done a good job. I'd be interested in the feedback to the Wacker attack. Thanks. Okay, thank you for that. Any questions from the Wacker attack? Questions, comments, please raise your hands so we can hear them. Everybody's pretty quiet today. I'm not seeing any hands. Chair Harvey. Yes. Oh, there's your hand. Yeah, I do. I do have a couple of questions. Thanks, Jay and Dale for the presentation. But first, first question I have is, is having this climate adaptation plan, does that set the agency up for in a better place as it relates to just any future grant funding for projects that might come out of this? Yes, Drew, that's one of the key advantages we see of having this plan and being one of the first water agencies to develop a comprehensive plan. So that's very much in our thinking and our intended use of this plan. Okay, thanks, Jay. And then my second question just relates to forecast informed reservoir operations. So the agency has made great strides with Lake Medesino and getting approvals to operate in the flood storage zone stage. Jay, could you again just briefly summarize how you're planning on leveraging the earlier work for Lake Medesino into work on Lake Sonoma? Sure. As you pointed out, the first FIRO project, it was really developed. The strategy was developed here at Lake Mendesino and it's proven to be a great success. And based on that, the Army Corps of Engineers is now currently and actively implementing FIRO at Lake Mendesino and its water control manual. This is the first of its kind by the Corps or anywhere. And what we're doing is now we're leveraging that effort and the tools and the science that we collectively worked on with the Corps and NOAA and Scripps and DWR and the whole team was behind this. It wasn't just the Corps and Sonoma Water. And the whole team of the federal and state agencies in Sonoma Water are now moving over that same steering committee and we're initiating a FIRO program to evaluate the viability at Lake Sonoma and we'll be able to leverage a lot of the great work that was done for Mendesino. So we're pretty excited about that. Hey, thank you, Jay. Chair Harvey, those are my questions. Great. I mean, the presentation for me, it just, you know, people think, you know, they turn on their tap and they have water and they appreciate that. But it's just always so amazing to see just really all the bits and pieces and how they kind of dance and walk and talk together to be able to bring that to customers. It's just always amazing to me to see just really how complicated and how intricate things are. And, you know, you tug on one string over here and it affects another string over here. And you guys just do a really good job of pointing that out and kind of really showing us the big picture. It looks like, David, you would like to add something? I just want to tag on to what you were saying there, Madam Chair, in terms of the work of the agency and grateful for that. Jay, I had my seismic safety commission meeting this week and we had Neil Driscoll from UC San Diego. He said a big thank you and a hello to you. Sonoma County really leading the way on fire cameras. And it was interesting. They came out of originally the seismic safety commission as locations for earthquake early warning systems and it turned out it was easier after major fires to get funding for fire cameras than it was for the earthquake monitors. But you could easily add the earthquake monitors to the fire camera locations. But Neil spoke very highly of Sonoma County's innovative approach on these kind of things. And I think, you know, as you know, I'm a big fan of FIRO. I do think that's going to be the response to this drought period, just like Lake Sonoma was to our last drought of records. So here's to continuing that work as we go forward and staying ahead of the curve as much as possible in these very turbulent times. So thank you for all the work. Thank you, David. Any other, I'm not seeing any other hands. Yeah, you know, it's always, it always amazes me the living and being part of Sonoma County on water, on all of the different things. How well we as a county and all of the representatives of all the different cities and the county, we really work very well together as a region. I'm always very proud of that because I think it does show leadership how we can, you know, take a problem and all work together to solve it for our area. So with that, I will see if there's any public comment on this item. If you wish to make a public comment, either raise your hand. If you're dialing in, please dial star nine. And now would be your time to comment or ask questions on this item. Gee, the audience is also very quiet today. I am not seeing any hands. Are you? Yes, if we don't have public comment, we are fortunate enough to have the prime consultant from Jacobs engineering at our water advisory committee technical advisory committee meeting the Armand Lunevar who's been leading this effort. And I think the question that Drew asked us earlier really is telling about how does this set up Sonoma water and our contractors vis-a-vis the state investments portfolio. Armand also has been doing a lot of leadership work with Department of Water Resources in their water plan update. I'm just wondering if Armand still on the line, if he might just share a little bit about the significance of the work product and also pledge to you that we'll stay on track because time is of the essence. So I'm putting them on the spot as well that we're going to our board with this on the 19th of October following director rabbit. So Armand, could you both confirm we're going to get this to our board and secondly, provide your insights as to where we are vis-a-vis the state process for investment portfolios. There is Armand and he is now allowed to speak. Great. Yeah, thanks. Well, hello everyone. Yeah, so as Jay and Dale summarize very well, we have a draft of the plan that is in review right now and we're looking forward to pushing that over the end line in the coming weeks here to get to final. So absolutely, we'll be getting that to the board and look forward to comment, review and hopefully subsequent approval of that plan. The plan does go into quite a bit of detail in terms of individual adaptation strategies and risks and really hope that that's useful for the overall board and this group to look at how you can make the systems more resilient in the future on the second part grant your question kind of of the state is moving. I can only give you my sense where we are doing some work with the state at the Department of Water Resources level and resilience is the name of the game for the state and anything we can do for Sonoma water to get them ahead of or the county to get ahead of the game in terms of establishing resilience planning and resilience strategies that are already well thought out aligned counts concept level feasibility assessments. The state is really looking forward to moving those towards action and I and I know the kind of the recent windfall budget has been pushed towards resiliency and large part resiliency and wildfire resilience. So there's quite a bit of opportunity for funding and I think this plan sets up the county quite well to to attract that funding or go after that funding. Thank you Armin. That's kind of what I was hoping. Your leadership on this is much appreciated as well as Jay and Dale and their team. I know we wanted to get this to the whack and very important that you have an opportunity to chime in and provide feedback before we go to the board. So just very very pleased that we're this far along and we're actually going to get it done this fall. So thank you. Thanks Grant. Jay did you have anything further to say before we move on? Just wanted to give you the last chance. Thank you Chair Harvey. No just thank you for your attention and support through this process and the climate adaptation plan you know like many of these plans is going to be adaptive in it of course and it's going to be something we'll be updating periodically as you know to stay current with the circumstances as they present themselves. So thank you very much. Great thank you and thank you for all the hard work that all of you have done to get this. So with that I will bring it back. I think I have a technical question here Drew before I do this. Is the intention that the whack members stay on or jump off this call? Yeah this is this is where you have an option. You essentially will recess the special whack meeting and so the whack members are certainly welcome to continue but if they have other commitments because this was a special meeting to be set up we understand that and so we will continue this as a as a tack meeting moving forward with the other agenda items. Okay so with that whack members you have heard that you may stay on or you may jump off and with that thank you everyone. I know that this was hard fitting in everyone's schedule appreciate everyone being here and I will turn it over to you Drew. Thank you thank you to all the whack members and Chair Harvey for your participation as well. So we're going to we're going to move now with the remaining agenda as just part of the technical advisory committee so we're now at agenda item six which is water supply conditions and temporary urgency change order updates and Don Seymour with the agency is going to provide that update Don. Good morning Drew good morning everybody with the tack and remaining members of the whack and the public. Starting with Lake Medecino current storage is about 17,400 acres feet. This is quite a bit below the 20,000 acre foot goal we had had starting October 1. Storage is pretty concerning right now. The current release from the reservoir is 89 cubic feet per second and since our last meeting in early August the reservoir has declined about 7,500 acre feet. We're currently about 4,000 acre feet below that threshold the storage threshold goals we had set for today and we're currently on track to be below 15,000 acre feet on October 1 so like I said this is very concerning. With regards to just want to bring up the emergency regulation and everybody's aware that curtailments were issued by the state board both for the upper Russian river and the lower Russian river selected water rights on the lower Russian river all water rights on the upper Russian river. There have been inspections by state board enforcement. Sonoma waters facilities were actually inspected a week or so ago and that included town of Windsor who was a point of diversion on our water rights. Those inspections are currently going on in both Sonoma and Medecino County and they're scheduled to continue through the end of the month so there's information posted on the state board's web page on those inspections. For Lake Sonoma the current storage is about 113,000 acre feet and the release is 98 cubic feet per second and since our last TACWAC meeting storage has declined about 9,300 acre feet. The reservoir is forecasted to drop below 100,000 acre feet early to mid-November so starting to see some you know getting some we're getting to very low storage and compared to wherever we've ever been before at Lake Sonoma. Five-day running average at the Heelsworth Gauge has been 26 cubic feet per second. The current flow rate is about 25. Kind of put this in perspective on how low this is. The lowest the flow has been this time of year at the Heelsworth Gauge was in 2015 and it was about 55 cubic feet per second so this is significantly lower than what was even experienced in 76-77. The upper Russian River is the lowest it's ever been in over the 81 years of history for that Heelsworth Gauge. At the Hacienda Bridge Gauge, the five-day running average has been 34 cubic feet per second and the current flow rate is 36 cubic feet per second. So with that I'd be happy to answer any questions. Okay thank you Don. Any questions on Don's update from the WAC or the TAC? Don't see any. Don on the on the releases that you reported the 89 CFS for Lake Minasino and the 98 for Lake Sonoma. Do those change much from I mean from last week or how do they vary over the last week or couple weeks? So when the curtailments were issued they went out August 2nd for the upper Russian River and August 10th for the lower Russian River. In response we did see some reductions in reach losses. I think we were releasing about 115 CFS at that time and over about a two-week period we were able to reduce the releases to about 85 CFS. However we saw and it stayed it stayed that way for from like mid August till about a week ago Drew. We were seeing pretty pretty you know steady flows in the river. About 10 days ago we started seeing declines again and we had to make a release change last week from the additional five CFS. So we went from it went from about 82 up to 89 but it has been fairly steady. On the lower Russian River we had been releasing about 84, 85 CFS for almost the entire month of August and the first week of September. Last week we did have to make a release change of five CFS to increase releases and I think really what was driving that is the is the completion of the replacement of the inflatable dam and then filling the dam and trying you know it's trying to speed that process up is you know not wanting to choke issues of choking you know choking the river off and having trouble meeting minimum stream flow requirements kind of off the interbridge. Hopefully we'll be able to cut that back but we'll have to wait and see. Okay thanks Don and then with respect to your field inspections by State Water Board staff was is there anything anything you can share there any any comments of of notes at all that that were raised questions that were raised? No it was very it was pretty uneventful the team was actually led by a State Board staff who had actually been in the Russian River Permitting Division for a long time who transferred to enforcement so he knew our facilities really well and he kind of had the same question we the Sonoma Water staff did why are you selecting Sonoma Water when you know and you know for inspection it seemed like that wasn't going to be provide them with much information. It was like I said they just visited several of the points of diversion and and some of our meter facilities basically were selected their selection process really was heavily weighted on the size of the water right so obviously Sonoma Water with having the largest water right in in the Russian River was was put on that list. The only other thing I would mention is I'm not sure really how other than you know water right holders knowing that there's State Board staff in the field based on what they you know what they were looking at I really don't know how that's going to support enforcement of those curtailments you know really the information they collected I'm not sure other than having their presence I'm not sure how it's going to help get folks in line that may not be in full compliance with with the curtailment. Pam was up the inspection part of the time I don't know if you want to add anything Pam. No not really Don it was like Don said the fact that the sort of team leader for our groups that came out was familiar with our facilities and us I think helped. I hope that the fact that the enforcement teams are out throughout the watershed there's several of these teams out right now I'm hoping that that will get some people to do what they're supposed to be doing which is not the diverting water if they're not municipal or or residential users so we'll see though it really just depends on how seriously people take it. Yeah I would just add I would just add to that that you know if you do the math we're releasing 89 out of the reservoir we're barely at 25 at Healdsburg so you know we're seeing a loss of 65 cubic feet per second on the upper Russian River which is indicating that there's there there are some people are not complying. All right thanks Don and Pam any other questions from the WAC or the tactic for the CMAT I'll see you have a raise. Yeah yeah hey thank you and Don thank you for the presentation you know given the the sort of dire nature of this thing and with folks not complying and everything like that is there an estimate currently on how much longer we have any kind of usable storage in Mendocino? So you know the you know what type of hydrology we're going to see in the coming months is you know there's just a tremendous amount of uncertainty if we were to see a repeat of you know let's say a dry year like 2015 or 2021 um Lake Mendocino could go dry by by February that's that's absolutely in the realm of possibility which as a you know a water resource manager is is pretty frightening to me it's that there's even that possible you know that type of risk is out there um so and certainly by December if we have dry conditions the reservoir could be down below 10,000 acre feet so just one thing to add that I think um it is it is an important point is um the Army Corps actually has funding to do um pathology surveys this year at both Lake Sonoma Lake Mendocino this is really good news for Lake Sonoma because it's never been done since Warm Springs and was constructed so it'll give us a really good understanding of what type of sedimentations that has occurred and lost storage so they're going to be doing LIDAR and in the unedited unedited areas and then using a you know vessel vesselment of technology for the areas that are still submerged. The last survey that was done for Lake Mendocino was 2001 so there's definitely been sedimentation since since then and based on estimates of previous bapometric surveys that have been conducted we estimate the sedimentation rate to be about 130 to 140 acre feet per year so it'll be it'll be really good information to understand you know when I when I previously mentioned we have 17,500 acre feet we'll get a better understanding how accurate that number really is. Thank you. Any other questions from the WAC or TAC before we open up to the public? I don't see any um all right now if anybody from the public again this is agenda item number six water supply conditions and temporary emergency change order update if you'd like to make a comment please raise your hand via zoom or dial star line on your phone. Drew we do have two raised hands um Peter Martin I'll allow you to talk you can go first please. Yeah thanks for um let me ask a question uh thank you for the update Dawn I was just curious um in terms of watching what PG&E is doing with their existing variants um is there any expected potential small amount of relief that could occur perhaps in October or I mean I know that kind of that threshold of the 36,000 acre feet uh for the existing variants is probably not going to be reached anytime soon but I was just curious if you could explain. Yeah so thanks Peter good morning um yeah so PG&E is managing the Potter Valley project under a variance that um FERC approved um they had done temporary improvements I mean they approved it temporarily uh twice then a final approval which uh was issued in August and um no they are going to be strictly PG&E's made it pretty clear and in a number of meetings they are going to be strictly managing to that variance um until it expires either uh through hitting that 36,000 acre foot threshold um after October that that that has come up at a couple meetings and they've been pretty clear that they're going to strictly be managing to that variance um I think one point to to make here make is we actually have seen um transfers on the project a bit higher inflows into Lake Minnesino from the project a bit higher than we had projected um however um on starting October 15th those those transfers are going to significantly reduce the the transfer to the Potter Valley Irrigation District drops from 25 down to five CFS and the minimum stream flow requirement in the East France drops from the current five down to three and they'll also cut the buffer of five CFS they've been putting on it so the transfer is going to go from about 30 CFS uh to um eight CFS starting um October 15th so it's actually going to go in the opposite direction great thank you Easter were there other comments yes we have a raise hand from David Keller you have been unmuted hi thank you and and thanks for the updates Donna I really appreciate it I'm just for folks perspective um and it's part of the FERC variance for the Potter Valley Irrigation District they are still irrigating about a thousand acres of hay this is their second cropping and so in terms of where water is being used coming out of um Scott Dan uh and Lake Pillsbury and where it's being used at PVID this is the imbalance shall we say in a drought year um that has been achieved through that variance the thousand acres they did say that they would not be doing third cropping but it's kind of crazy that this has been allowed so just for your perspective on that thank you thanks David Easter were there any other public comments I do not see any other based hands okay and let the record reflect that there were no um comments um generated over the weekend via phone or email to me so we're going to move to agenda item number seven sonoma marine saving water partnership this is broken up into three different uh subsets here seven a is water production and it's relative to what we have historically done the 2013 benchmark uh the graph also shows just the gallons per day per capita since the late 1990s uh you can see here in july water use um versus the 2013 is down 26 percent um and we have a new tracking that we've added and we'll continue to do so during these uh order uh reductions in diversions uh if you can scroll down further it shows uh the reduction in Russian River diversions keeps scrolling down please next page a little bit more yeah right there uh so the agency is tracking this and it's actually available on their website and it's updated um on a weekly basis and it shows uh that you know the order is to reduce uh Russian River diversions by 20 percent um starting in july one you can see here through the early september uh it's about 22 percent um so we're we're meeting and exceeding that diversion requirement through the state water board and that'll continue to be updated and reported out uh as this order continues for reduction in diversions um any questions from the whack or tack on this see any questions any hands being raised on that or open it up to the public and again this is agenda item 7a any questions from the public i am not seeing any raised hands true okay thank you easter and let the meeting minister reflect that i did not receive any uh voicemails or emails earlier regarding agenda item 7a so we're going to move now to item 7b and it's just an update from paul piazza on the order term 9 reporting paul great thank you drew morning everybody um so if you recall the temporary agency change petition and the subsequent state board order from february included a water conservation term term 9 that stipulated monthly water conservation reports be submitted to the state board for the term of the order i've reported on five previous monthly ports having been submitted there was a final due at the end of august and it's of note that we've received clarification somewhat recently that when the new state board was issued in june if um any of the the previous terms were not carried over that those terms were revoked and so it was clarified that no final report was required for this term of the order uh just to give you uh an update though um you know the contractors have done a great job of providing all their data uh on a monthly basis during a very busy time for their staff uh including this final report so i reported back in the beginning of august that we'd achieved over 14 million in savings for the five months uh during that previous term it should be noted that that estimate of savings is really only attributable to those conservation measures that are um easily calculated in terms of savings so uh those types of things would include toilet installs the drought kits that have been given away to install shower heads and faucet aerators and and other things that are easily quantifiable obviously the graph that drew just showed where we're meeting close to a 22 percent reduction far exceeds that amount of savings during the time period um and then um because i did receive the reports from the contractors for this final report um you know we're closer to 19 million over the six-month term of the order just for those measures that have been implemented by the partners that are quantifiable so it just speaks to all of the ongoing effort of all of the agencies and the partnership and the continual um participation by our customers and many of the programs that help build savings not only during this drought year but in the years to come uh the aggregated annual savings just from the measures implemented this summer um totals well over 30 million gallons annually so i just want to emphasize that and to mention finally that again this wraps up the monthly conservation reports that were a requirement of the previous uh state board order thank you paul any questions from the whack or tack on paul's update seeing none we'll open this up to the public if you wish to make a comment please raise your hand via zoom or dial star nine on your phone there are not any raised hands okay thank you easter and let the meeting minutes reflect that there were no pre-recorded public comments received by me over the weekend so we are going to move now to agenda item seven c drought outreach messaging and this is tag team by uh barry dugan and paul piazza thank you drew barry dugan with community government affairs um good morning members of the tack and remaining members of the whack i'm going to share my screen right now and uh hopefully everybody can see it we can thank you drew uh so this is our public outreach update um i i would be remiss if i didn't point out that this presentation is the first and only to include a pet um so uh we did have great participation in our second um drought drive drought drop by event and this was a photo taken in um sonoma i believe so as as you mentioned drew paul and i will be um tagged gaming on this on this presentation and i'm going to try and advance my slide uh so just a quick summary of what we're going to tell you uh we had a successful drop drop by event um last month we conducted a successful saving water challenge um during july and august we have an ongoing bilingual social media and advertising campaign that will continue through the duration of this drought and uh we have a new partnership website design uh that paul will be talking about and then finally the trusted messenger video project that uh we have unveiled on behalf of the partnership so i'll let paul talk to you about the drop drop by event great thank you berry so uh similar to the first event that occurred in june we held the second event on august 21st at 13 locations throughout uh three county area uh we were able to give out an additional 3300 plus kits overall amongst those 13 locations that included both devices to actually save water such as shower heads faucet aerators and self-closing hose nozzles but also information and tips on additional ways to reduce your water use and information about the various programs of the partner agencies as you can see in the lower left photo the kit was packaged up in a bucket that enables customers to use warm up water or water in the kitchen sink that catches rinse water for cleaning vegetables and fruit that then could be repurposed in the household the water plants both inside or outside the home there is a third event scheduled for october 9th the october 9th event uh is a much limited event in scope city of santa rosa is partnered in that and we'll be doing some outreach on behalf of that october 9th event and the partners that committed to purchase additional materials and wish to participate again in that october 9th event uh we'll be putting uh information about the final locations for the october 9th up on the partnership's website soon but a great effort again on october 21st um had a lot of good turnout and a lot of information shared and we're hopeful that um that will build some additional savings throughout the summer so jumping right into the saving water challenge uh we held the challenge through july and august that included a pretty complete list of tips and ways for people to save water uh those uh customers that were willing to pledge to take the challenge and sign up on the partnerships website were made eligible uh for a list of prizes that you can see here including a high efficiency clothes washer high efficiency toilet irrigation controller and the like that challenge did wrap up at the end of august and we have a preliminary selection of winners that we are circulating around with now to identify um we have a little bit of time to do that um just given we have only email contacts and we give people 10 business days to respond so hopefully within the next couple weeks we'll be able to publicize the final contest winners of the challenge thank you paul yep uh so just a quick update on our our bilingual drop messaging you can see there there's one ad in english one in spanish uh these have been published both in print uh print media digital advertising and throughout social media and uh just want to also reiterate that this is a partnership wide effort so we've gotten input from all of the partner partnership members and done it they've done a tremendous job of supporting this effort and distributing these on on their own as well um we're doing a a slight refresh on the drop messaging this is being spearheaded uh by sonoma water and santa rosa water um and you can see that the message is the same uh there the the color color scheme is the same but there's a slight slight refresh on the design uh we're in the process of developing some uh new messages some new ads with a little bit of levity and we'll report on that uh at our next the next tap meeting but again intended just to to keep keep the message consistent to keep the message present keep repeating the message because we know that's what's uh needed to to continue to change behavior in terms of water use um and now let paul talk to you about the new partnership website yeah this is a project that's been going on for roughly the last year we had a few setbacks during the the covid time but uh recently we're able to launch this new website live so encourage you all to visit savingwaterpartnership.org we have a couple new features on the partnership website including a water smart plant picker so previously we used to contract with a third party provider to provide a database for those interested in information about low water use plants the new website has now built that in as a feature and we're relying on um the Sonoma county master gardeners superstars list essentially as the the launch list and we'll be continuing to build out that plant database over time we also have a new tool that enables folks to get information on appropriate irrigation scheduling the tool is hooked up to the california irrigation management and information system which relies on real time daily weather updates to change those scheduling recommendations it works two ways either to provide um a weekly runtime for your irrigation based on some user information about the type of irrigation that you have at your home whether it's overhead sprays versus drip or you have high water use plants or low that schedule can be customized in terms of your weekly runtime and then there's a second option for the tool recognizing that a lot of controllers these days have a budgeting feature which allows customers to set their timer to meet the peak summer demand in terms of minutes and then make seasonal adjustments to weather based on raising or lowering by a percentage the the amount of time your controller actually implements and so we do have that feature built into the scheduling tool as well it's a watering index that simply provides easy information on a weekly basis on how to adjust your irrigation budget on a percent basis either down or up if we're in a brief period of hot weather so that's great the website of course is a regional tool that we're going to be continue to build out over time we did build in to the program's feature a pretty comprehensive list of all the partnership programs for each of our agencies so people can essentially visit the website and utilize it as a one-stop shop to determine what programs are available to them and they can be redirected then to their local utility for additional information or sign-ups for programs so visit the website we're excited it's got a great new look and a lot of new features for people and we're hoping to build that out of our time really quickly too I also just want to give a nod to the Russian River watershed association as another a great website to visit during this drought time all of the Sinoma County partners in the partnership are also our RWA members and did a lot of work with RWA to quickly build out the drought resources page so if you're unfamiliar you can visit the Russian River watershed website which is rrwatershed.org on their homepage they have a pretty clear link to their 2021 drought updates page and it has a great resource to be able to quickly take a look at all of the cities in the watershed and shows what particular reduction goal they've implemented whether it's mandatory or voluntary and then links to each of the partnerships and rrw members pages for additional drought information of resources so thank you very go ahead thanks paul and finally just wanted to give you an update on our trusted messenger video project this is a project again launched by the partnership and had participation from a number of the partners and this is short videos about water saving tips from different members of the community including the daily acts in Petaluma the Cousteau bakery in Sinoma I mean sorry in Healdsburg Gardner landscape true north landscaping that's throughout Sinoma County and these are in English and in Spanish we have again participation from all sectors of our community and from a lot of the partners so that's all we have drew for the partnership outreach update and we're happy to answer any questions I have a question I saw those the drought is here t-shirts are those available those were available uh john to uh participants in the drop drop by event so those were those are for staff members and um other other people who worked at the event we have the uh the graphic files available if you'd like us to share them with your agency for for further print runs with a shirt company thank you and john i'd either john i'd even throw mine over to you if you if you really like one i've used up my use of it for the season people that know me know i love t-shirts with messages drew i think you're muted i am muted uh yeah john i was saying that i think paul's gonna take care of you there on that uh shirt request paul's a good man yeah uh jennifer did you have a question comment yes um thanks drew and thank you very and paul for the presentation um and uh thank you for letting folks know about the october 9th drop drop by i know for santa rila at the last drop drop by we gave away 1300 kits and at the first one we gave away 1500 kits and so just i know it's intense and a lot of work but would highly encourage as many of the contractors as possible to do another drop drop by event on october 9th i think they really are a great way to get the word out to our community um i did have a question in relation to um messaging and kind of where we're going for the fall um i'm i'm getting a little concerned about um water usage in september and october in particular uh because we see the allocations drop quite a bit and um i know that we typically see a lot of waste uh in terms of irrigation typically a lot of people over irrigate in the fall um is there any way that we can get messaging out currently and focusing really on encouraging people to cut back um immediately on irrigation and really try and point them to the tools that are available not only through the partnership website with the water budgeting um information but i know a lot of the retailers i think also have similar recommendations on our website i know santa rosa we have as well weekly watering recommendations so can you just talk a little bit about what the focus is in the next couple weeks and if there's a way that we can really get messaging out about reducing irrigation immediately sure jennifer i know barry and i had had a conversation previously about kind of next steps for some of the radio ads and what you bring up was actually one of the topics of discussion for focus of that i think all of the partners would echo that during the fall months when the days are getting shorter and the eto is lowering even though the weather remains warm people don't seem to understand that by late august you can cut irrigation you know by as much as 30 and 40 by the end of september so we are talking about refocusing the outdoor savings information to be about the recognition of lowering irrigation requirement i know many of the partners already have very severe irrigation restrictions at least particularly for city of hildsburg and marin so i'm not sure how they're going to cut back significantly but for others there's always people that are still kind of business as usual even during the drought and so even if you know people have reduced significantly there's always a good message to get out for those that aren't quite understanding or doing their part that this is the time of year where you've got to be making cut back to irrigation and then secondarily we haven't had any significant rain yet but there's going to be a point early in the winter or late fall when we get that first you know bit of rain that we're going to be messaging to remind people that you've got to be attentive to your automated irrigation system and make sure that's being turned off during those rain events because on a scaled up basis that's going to be able to provide a significant reduction in use during the critical period of this order when more and more will be focused on how to meet the reduction from indoor so yeah that's kind of one of the the points we're touching on at berry if you have other thoughts and then we talked a little bit about refocusing on indoor water saving options but no i think you hit on it paul we we we are aware of that jennifer and are you know focusing the the latest messaging on actually turn you know turning off your irrigation a little sooner than you normally would you know as a simplified message so right thank you i just think the sooner we can start pushing that through social media and other things even this week would be helpful thank you thanks jennifer any other questions from the tac or whack on this item again this is the general item 7c drought outreach messaging hey paul um has anybody thought about maybe doing some sort of giveaway on the water catchers that shut off the um uh smart water meters or the smart water irrigation systems i should say are you referring to rain shut off devices for smart controllers yes uh we haven't thought about a giveaway i think there's a lot of variability in the type of controllers that might be installed out there and each of the manufacturers tend to have a different type of product that kind of goes with their specific controller so i think it's a great idea john if nothing else getting the word out to the community that those devices are existing and not expensive to install so that um it helps with getting the system turned off during those rain events rather than relying people having to take the time and go out and manually shut it off so that might be another great opportunity to do for the the fall outreach messaging both in terms of highlighting the advances in irrigation controller technology and also the devices that are out there to help turn them off during those intermittent rainfall events thank you any other questions from the tac or whack okay i don't see we're going to go ahead and open this up to the public if you'd like to comment again we're on agenda item 7c if you'd like to make a comment or ask a question please raise your hand um be a zoom or dial star nine on your phone i do not see any raise to us okay thank you easter and let the meeting minutes reflect that there were no prerecorded public comments on this agenda item as well so we're going to move now to agenda item number eight biological opinion status update and pam gene's going to provide that for us morning drew and everybody else who's attending the meeting this morning can you hear me okay drew yes okay um we uh have a few updates for biological opinion i won't send a lot of time on this and i'll just try to hit the highlights and as as we've had updates really regularly with this group so i'm looking at the the document that is currently on your screen we'll start off with fishbowl project um there really is no big changes with regards to this at this point this is the project that we're looking at changing in stream flows um in the russian river in accordance with biological opinion and also to address the issues that we have with changes in the fodder valley project um so this is ongoing work um and uh continues to to move forward at this point uh the next item down on the screen the dry creek habitat enhancement work we are working on two pieces of the phase three projects this summer um we expect that those they'll be completed with that work by the mid-october timeframe which is when they need to be out of the creek in accordance with our permits for construction um they just recently finished some grading and habitat feature installation on the west side of the creek um as part of this project and um a backwater feature there um they've got approximately 75 of the excavation done for the side of the channel for the side channel where the water will actually flow through that side channel on the east side of the creek um i was actually out at the project um about a month ago now very interesting and there's a lot of dirt being moved around so it's very um a very big project actually um that's going on out there and again they do expect to have that work completed and be out of the stream by the october 15th deadline so that's the last remaining pieces of the phase three project homeless for this year um habitat monitoring and maintenance the next item down the screen here um our environment we've talked about this quite a bit so i'm not going to go into a lot of detail here but our environmental staff does continue to conduct physical and biological surveys on projects that have already been constructed so the idea is to go out there and make sure that they meet the requirements that are required um by the biological opinion as well as identify maintenance needs for those projects so that work is is ongoing and um we'll continue in the future on both the completed projects the currently completed projects as well as a new project that gets completed in the future um we also um we're out did um some site visits downstream of the west side road bridge um this is an area where we had a lot of sedimentation during the 2019 high flows um in dry creek and um they are developing conceptual designs for maintaining the features down there and that work will likely occur in 2022 um and um there's also some work um in terms of minor sediment removal and maintenance of some vegetation for phases one and two of the project that will also happen in 2022 so that's what's going on there um we also continue to work with um property owners um both for phase um well it's really all three of the next three phases uh four or five and six um the bid documents have been completed for phase four um and it will be the first phase that will be constructed by the core of engineers there were I think we've talked about this before but there were changes requested by the property owners and the right of way agreements those changes have been shared with four of engineers we got some preliminary input back from them um but not um not final input back from them so this project has the space for work will not be completed this year it has been delayed to next year and uh hopefully we can get these right of way issues worked out with the core ESR our consultants ESA and Cardinal have completed the 99 design submittals for phases five and six and construction of phase five would be in 2023 construction of phase six would be in 2024 um they're working um on appraisals as well as negotiations with property owners for both these phases at this at this time and continue to advance the right of way agreements um out there um we of course may get the same type of requests from these property owners that we got from the phase four property owners in terms of changes to the right of way agreements so we'll have to work our way through that uh if if in fact that that happens so um the last piece about dry creek is that there is some what I'll call extra work being done by ESA working on a piece a habitat enhancement piece it's they've got a 30 design package for a site that's upstream of a phase three site and we're doing this in case we need some extra mileage I'll call it to fully meet the six miles required by the biological opinion um we're currently meeting with property owners in the area on regulatory agencies to get their input um after there was a design meeting should have been told last week so that's what's coming up next on that and as far as fish monitoring goes um September 1 does mark the beginning of our underwater video system operation at the Mirabelle dam so um we uh my understanding is that the dam that the the camera is in place it's operational at this point um I heard just last Friday they're a little bit behind and I'm looking at those videos but they don't expect to actually see any Chinook at this point so that's probably okay they are pretty concerned because of the drought about what the Chinook migration might look like this year so um they'll continue to work with the resource agencies to to to discuss this and hopefully that information that we gather through the camera system will help in those discussions as we go along the next item the rush river estuary management project the estuary itself is open and um we continue to do uh weekly pinniped monitoring out there as well as water quality and biological monitoring um and the management season uh ends in mid-october so that's that's end of that of that work um for the year um and there there is just so folks know the water quality data that is being gathered as part of the rush the estuary management project is uh as well as under the temporary urgency change petition order that we received from the state is all being um posted weekly on our website and the link is here if you want to take a look at that um and in terms of interim flow changes I think Don already covered that so unless there's changes or any questions on that um I won't cover that at this point there's a nice photo of a tree that used to be underwater no longer trees coral under used to be underwater no longer underwater like some weeks ago that if uh I'll be happy to answer any questions sure thanks fam uh any questions comments for Pam from the whack of the tack don't see any Pam one thing that one question that I had just related to the um draft EIR is do you have you know we've been talking about it recirculating in 2021 if you have anything do you know what month that might be if you heard any month mentioned yeah I do not drew sorry I don't have that information and I don't believe I looked for Dave and Jessica I don't see them on on the meeting sorry okay all right I'm not seeing any other questions from the whack attack we'll open this up to public comment again this is agenda item number eight biological opinion status update do you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine on your phone I do not see any raise hands okay thank you Easter and let the meeting minister reflect that there were no prerecorded public comments on this agenda item as well and so we're going to move to potter valley projects real licensing update and Pam you have this one as well yep okay um so the the sort of big news on the potter valley project and the real licensing process that's going on there is that um the partnership um those of us that we either refer to ourselves as the partners or the notice of intent um parties which is what the FERC refers to us as um we have a due date of tomorrow under the integrated licensing process and um instead of waiting till tomorrow to submit something we actually filed a letter with FERC on September 2nd um and in that letter we asked FERC to allow us additional time um to do some more work in terms of due diligence and studies and fundraising um and we requested that um additional time until May 31st of next year um at which time the partnership would provide further notice regarding um what we're what we're doing at that point so the partnership requested the delay to provide um time needed to answer a a lot of questions including including um some risk questions ownership cost questions as well as um whether or not some restoration work um might be feasible and various other things um and again we will also be looking at seeking state and federal funding during that that time frame that we've asked for through May 31st um so I'm not sure exactly when we're gonna get a response from FERC um as our filing was due as I said tomorrow um but I would expect at some time in the next month or so we'll hear back from FERC about whether or not they're willing to grant us um that um extra time um but um that's where we're at right now um there have been a couple of articles and um Mendocino County papers um and um the the partnership uh will probably be putting a press release out this week on that so there might be more articles showing up in the paper after that. That's it Drew. Thanks Pam. Questions from the WAC or TAC on Potter Valley project update? Don't see any so we'll open this up for public comments if you wish to make a comment please raise your hand via zoom or dial star nine on your phone. We do have one hand raised uh David Keller I'm going to go ahead and unmute you. Great thanks Pam um Pam or Grant um at this point do you see any prospect for the funding uh either out of the state or any of the sources necessary to do the studies to continue? I mean that really seems to be the key point in being able to proceed as the partnership has intended. Uh David as you may know we're actively working with Cal Trout and our colleagues to continue to pursue state funding and to support the priority work that's got to get done. So uh the legislature just adjourned and uh it's now time to dig through all the different drought provisions that were incorporated. There's a lot of new money in there so that's an ongoing effort and uh your colleagues are are definitely right in there with us seeking funding to support the effort. Yeah we are we are uh in an NNY agreement with Cal Trout so we are pretty well up to date on that. All right thanks. Okay thank you David any any other public comments? I do not see any other hands raised. Thank you Easter um okay we're getting towards the end here we're agenda item number 10 items for the next agenda this will be a TAC meeting October 4th so we'll have our regularly uh scheduled agenda items a couple other additional ones that that I know of is you know since we're working on an allocation that goes through the end of October we'll be having something that looks at a late fall allocation for the water contractors that would be starting in November um so most likely have an agenda item on that we also should have an agenda item on just you know post December 11 order planning so just recall that this order expires on December 11th and so we need to start talking about you know what what what do we anticipate will take place as we continue to move into what could in fact be another dry year and we hope it won't be but we need to plan accordingly so well at least those two additional agenda items does anybody else have anything uh above and beyond what's just been discussed for the TAC meeting in October? Hey Drew before you adjourn I just want to personally thank Susan thanks for staying on and any WAC members but want to thank the TAC members for reaching agreement on the water shortest allocation methodology and round and call well and folks we're taking that to the board tomorrow in hopes that we we're going to reach the agreement today so thanks for spending the extra time and energy to get that done it's now updated and I'm personally appreciative thank you yeah thanks Grant um I would second that Grant you guys worked I know really hard and tirelessly to to make it work for everyone and I really appreciate all the work you guys did yeah it's great to have a unanimous decision uh by the full full WAC voting so absolutely appreciated by all okay I'll open this up for the public comments uh again this is agenda items for the next meeting if you'd like to make a comment uh raise your hand via zoom or dial star nine on your phone I do not see any raised hands okay and there are no preview forwarded public comments on this agenda item so that brings us to the end of the meeting 11 a.m thanks everybody um have a good week and look forward to the future WAC and TAC meetings and your participation take care thanks thank you Drew take care bye everyone bye