Historical - Lake Whatcom and Natural Resources Committee - Restructured in 2018

Name: Historical - Lake Whatcom and Natural Resources Committee - Restructured in 2018 — Bellingham, WA
Start: 2017-03-27T13:00:00
End: 2017-03-27T15:00:00
Location: Bellingham, WA

Regular Meeting

Bellingham, WA · March 27, 2017

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Lake Whatcom Joint Councils & Commissions Annual Meeting Wednesday, March 29, 2017 The video and meeting materials are available here: http://meetings.cob.org/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=839&doctype=SUMMARY Roll Call Present: John Carter Bruce Ford Todd Citron Laura Weide Todd Donovan Carl Weimer Barbara Brenner Satpal Sidhu Barry Buchanan Michael Lilliquist Dan Hammill Roxanne Murphy April Barker Pinky Vargas Terry Bornemann Excused: Gene Knutson Rud Browne Ken Mann Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 6:30 p.m. by the Presidents of the three bodies as follows: Bellingham City Council President Michael Lilliquist; Lake Whatcom Water & Sewer District President Laura Wiede; and Whatcom County Council President Barry Buchanan. Opening Remarks Opening Remarks were given by Whatcom County Executive Jack Louws and General Manager of the Lake Whatcom Water & Sewer District Patrick Sorenson. 2016 Lake Whatcom Monitoring Program Annual Report The Annual Report was presented by Dr. Robin Matthews of the Institute for Watershed Studies at Western Washington University. (Dr. Matthews’s PowerPoint is available at the link above.) The Joint Councils and Commission Lake Whatcom Management Program Annual Program Review The review was presented by a team of colleagues: Cathy Craver, Senior Planner Special Projects, Whatcom County; Ingrid Enschede BBWARM Program Specialist, Whatcom County Public Works Stormwater; Gary Stoyka, Natural Resources Manager, Whatcom County Public Works; Jason Porter, Storm and Surface Water Manager, City of Bellingham Public Works; and Eli Mackiewicz, Engineering Technician, City of Bellingham Public Works. Outreach and engagement efforts are embedded in all of the programs discussed. (This PowerPoint available at the link above.) Public Comment Nancy Alyanak: A 2015 presentation to the Bellingham City Council claimed that Basin 1 and 2 have different oxygen levels than Basin 3 and are impaired. Basin science is being erased from public view. There are no basins in the five-year work plan. The TMDL calculation doesn’t consider basins. It over estimates the amount of phosphorous. That is politics. Basin 3 is out of luck. HIP 2 ignores the large, deep basin. More science and less politics. Larry Brown: He is the President of the Sudden Valley Neighborhood Association Board. Sudden Valley has been spending money on the Lake for decades since the early-1980s. Sudden Valley has tons of parks and green space, and they want to work with the jurisdictions. Goose waste goes back into the Lake. Sudden Valley is on Basin 3, the so-called clean Basin. He was concerned by reports of degradation. Can you provide data on the run-off of Sudden Valley’s two creeks? Sudden Valley spends money on saving the Lake. Jeff Margolis: He lives in Van Zandt. He served on Advisory Committee in the early-1980s. Back then the focus of the watershed committee was medical, including Cancer, and the water required chlorination. It does not come into focus today. The universalization of cost and the voluntary, non-regulatory measures do not work. Is cost measured? Does it cost more to treat the water today? Using more chlorine? Adjournment The three bodies adjourned their meetings at 8:35 PM.

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City of Bellingham Lake Whatcom and Natural Resources Committee Meeting Agenda 03/27/2017, 1:00 PM Mayor Kelli Linville Contact: (360) 778-8200, ccmail@cob.org Council Members Dan Hammill, Chair www.cob.org/council Gene Knutson, Terry Bornemann All meetings are held in the City Hall Council Chambers at 210 Lottie Street, Bellingham, WA, unless otherwise noted. Call to Order Council Standing Committee Meetings: Open to the public to attend. Note: there is generally no public comment period for Committee sessions. Standing Committee Members receive reports and information, ask questions and, when appropriate, vote on a recommended action for consideration by the full Council at the Regular Meeting. The notice of Committee Meetings identified below also serves as notice of Special Meetings of the City Council at the times identified as Council Members who are not members of the committee routinely attend and participate in the Committee Meetings. Committee Chairs give a report of the Committee Meeting at the Regular Meeting in the evening prior to deliberation and formal vote in the order shown below: Lake Whatcom Reservoir and Natural Resources Daniel Hammill, Chair Gene Knutson; Terry Bornemann 21556 1. Update on Middle Fork Dam Fish Passage Project p. 1 Adjournment Agenda Information: Council Committee and Regular Meeting agendas and agenda packets, which contain the supporting documentation for agenda items, are available to the public Wednesday afternoon prior to the meeting. They are posted at www.cob.org/meetings. Meetings are streamed live on the internet as they occur. Accessibility: The Council Chambers is fully accessible. Elevator access to the second floor is available at City Hall’s west entrance. Hearing assistance is available and a receiver may be checked out through the clerk prior to the evening session. For additional accommodations, contact the Legislative Assistant at 778-8200 in advance of the meeting. Thank you. 1 Next City Council Meeting 04/10/2017 Deadline to submit material for the public hearing for inclusion in the published agenda packet is 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday prior to the meeting. 2

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