HomeMy WebLinkAbout2010-05-05 Water Advisory Committee MinutesCity of Ashland
Ashland Water Advisory Committee
Public Open House Minutes May 5, 2010
Ashland High School Quad
210 S. Mountain Avenue
L CALL TO ORDER: Meeting was called to order by Chair Rich Whitley at 7:00 p.m.
Committee members present: Councilor Kate Jackson, Darrell Boldt, Pat Acklin, Alex
Amarotico, Amy Patton, Donna Rhee, Don Morris, Rich Whitley and Lesley Adams
Absent: Councilor Carol Voisin and John Williams
Staff present: Mike Faught and Pieter Smeenk,
Consultants present: Nicki Pozos and Dave Kraska ( Carollo Engineers)
II. ADJUSTMENTS TO THE AGENDA: None
III. PRESENTATION:
Water Conservation and Reuse Study and Comprehensive Water Master Plan
Presented by Dave Kraska and Nicki Pozos, Carollo Engineers, a PowerPoint slideshow
introduced the challenges and identified options, scope and schedule of the Ashland
water supply system to adopt an integrated Water Master Plan. The first objective is to
address long-term water supply, including climate change issues; security and
redundancy; watershed and stream health; conservation and reuse. The Water Master
Plan update will implement solutions for projected water needs aligning with regulatory
requirements.
IV. PUBLIC FORUM: As this was an Open House, the following are the notes in outline
format from the listening session by table/group
1. Table 1 (Kate Jackson, Darrell Boldt, Pat Acklin)
a. Conservation before supplementing the supply
b. How much can the individual home owners ability to capture rainwater reduce
demand
c. Alternative sources for landscape irrigation
d. Reducing expectations for how much water we use inside the home
e. Mid 70s in San Francisco — 100 gpcd for more than a year (Kate)
f How to maintain independence from other systems — including Medford (TAP)
and TID
g. Personal wells or grouping of homes looking at wells for their own irrigation
supply
h. Criteria
i. Risk assessment around earthquake and fire fighting capabilities, fire
ii. When combining multiple supplies —chemical interaction, algae
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iii. Having a way for the general public to understand the costs for each of the
options so that something could be boiled down to something that
individual rate payers can understand
2. Table 2 (Gary Siskiyou, Alex Amarotico, Amy Patton, Mike Faught)
a. Living within the supply we already have, conservation efficiency through
education
b. Perhaps goal of 30% reduction
c. Stream health, land use ordinance and economics
d. Keeping it within our watershed
e. Look at land use and building codes as part of the water goals and make sure
those are in synch with the water goals
f. Bring in somebody from planning and somebody from each of the major water
users to participate in the process — e.g., SOU, hospital
3. Table 3 (Donna Rhee, Don Morris, Lesley Adams)
a. Based on cost, chemical, nutrient considerations
b. Practical potable sources
c. Conservation
d. Purple pipe — TID, wastewater effluent considerations through purple pipe
e. Rainwater catchment
f. Criteria
I. Cost
ii. Reliability
iii. Availability
iv. Redundancy
v. Quality
vi. Watershed protection and management
V. OPEN HOUSE ADJORNED: 9:00 p.m.
Respec fully submitted for Nicki Pozos by
Brenda Barker, Administrative Assistant
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