1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,480 Are published on the management council's website. 2 00:00:05,180 --> 00:00:21,240 Director's partners and presenters, please everyone articulate into the microphone so that we can hear and understand what you intend to share. Call a meeting of the Board of Directors. Let's please start with our roll call as usual. Please take turns sharing your name and the municipality that you represent. 3 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:28,420 Jenny Kent City of Auburn, Karen Vanloo, town of Fleming, Terry Palmer, 4 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,360 Downham Riveo, Nancy Hart, town of Scipio. 5 00:00:33,620 --> 00:00:40,000 Thank you all. I don't believe that we have any representatives online with us and 6 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,460 we can't see the participants the way that the Zoom is set up this morning. 7 00:00:43,580 --> 00:00:48,840 So if there are, please feel free to chime in. That be in the case we don't, I believe 8 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:56,160 We need five for Quorum now under the new by-laws, so that being said, I think what I'll 9 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:02,020 do for some of our business line items on the agenda is we'll just open them up for discussion 10 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:07,420 and then we'll push the meeting minutes at least until next month, okay. 11 00:01:08,580 --> 00:01:11,060 Are there any questions about the agenda today? 12 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:15,380 Are there any questions about the meeting minutes from last month? 13 00:01:15,620 --> 00:01:17,660 That would be the August 18th board meeting. 14 00:01:22,140 --> 00:01:24,720 I'd like to open the forum for public to be heard. 15 00:01:25,020 --> 00:01:27,920 There's anyone who wants to speak up, either a person online. 16 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,040 Again, we can't see participants online currently. 17 00:01:30,740 --> 00:01:32,240 Please feel free to speak at this time. 18 00:01:40,090 --> 00:01:41,070 The new environmental. 19 00:01:43,140 --> 00:01:43,700 Oh, that's great. 20 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:51,440 This time it's an engage in the body here and represent the association. 21 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:52,460 That's great. 22 00:01:52,620 --> 00:01:53,220 In your name again? 23 00:01:53,460 --> 00:01:53,680 Brad. 24 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:54,360 Brad? 25 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,500 Brad, do you believe that you'll be here for the entirety of the meeting this morning? 26 00:01:59,220 --> 00:02:02,620 We're usually meet for about an hour and a half and probably be shorter today. 27 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:08,020 We don't have a keynote this morning, but I would like to connect with you afterwards for your contact information and get to know you. 28 00:02:09,380 --> 00:02:11,440 Great. Thank you Brad. Okay. 29 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:14,720 Okay. Anyone else? 30 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:16,260 Members from the public? 31 00:02:17,180 --> 00:02:21,780 Okay, other ways I will dive into the the director's report and these are just updates 32 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:23,840 project review 33 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:31,500 and relevant project review is contained within the written director's report, but all they focus on updates this morning, as usual, okay? 34 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:33,700 I'm going to come up to the podium this morning to give those. 35 00:02:50,360 --> 00:03:09,600 All right, concerning watershed rules and regulations, our project update for that project category is that an updated regulatory map concerning the current rules and regulations for the 36 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:14,060 updated map. The version of the map is available on the Ooscolic Watershed 37 00:03:14,060 --> 00:03:18,820 Inspection and Protection Division website. That link was provided, and I also 38 00:03:18,820 --> 00:03:24,620 haven't pulled up on the screen here so you can take a look. So Jesse Lloyd took 39 00:03:24,620 --> 00:03:30,340 the time to upload the updated map. This is a static map, so it's not 40 00:03:30,340 --> 00:03:35,420 integrated through GIS. There is another pathway where you can use it as GIS 41 00:03:35,420 --> 00:03:41,160 yet GIS integrated and as a layer and I'll show you that momentarily, but he did provide 42 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:49,860 a link here as well so that you can download the map and a link as well to identify whether 43 00:03:49,860 --> 00:03:53,640 or not the streams are protected under the authorities of the Department of Environmental 44 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:54,160 Conservation. 45 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,520 Okay, so that's the new map here and you can see the distinction between the new map and 46 00:03:58,520 --> 00:03:58,940 the old map. 47 00:04:01,150 --> 00:04:06,170 The protected water course information is also available, as I mentioned, as a GIS layer 48 00:04:06,170 --> 00:04:11,770 through Kiwi County Planning Department through their environmental cartography online. 49 00:04:12,070 --> 00:04:17,410 That's the EcoMapping Application and I will pull that up now so you can take a look at what 50 00:04:17,410 --> 00:04:18,290 that looks like. 51 00:04:28,250 --> 00:04:33,830 Okay, so this is the EcoMapper through the Kiwi County Planning Department. 52 00:04:34,550 --> 00:04:36,970 Do you want to play with the map layers are here? 53 00:04:38,570 --> 00:04:42,510 And then the various layers are shown and they can be checked, right? 54 00:04:42,510 --> 00:04:45,230 So then when you check a layer, it'll populate on the map. 55 00:04:46,430 --> 00:04:51,790 And for now, the watershed regulatory map is simply 56 00:04:51,790 --> 00:04:54,590 identified as a Wasco Lake Watershed Streams. 57 00:04:55,050 --> 00:04:57,450 We have asked that the QQ County Planning Department 58 00:04:57,450 --> 00:05:01,930 consider updating that term or that layer definition, 59 00:05:02,310 --> 00:05:04,610 something along the lines of maybe protected streams 60 00:05:04,610 --> 00:05:08,170 or regulated streams, help giving us a little bit more 61 00:05:08,830 --> 00:05:11,530 visibility on the fact that these are regulated 62 00:05:11,530 --> 00:05:20,640 and protected streams. So I'm just going to click on that and you'll see that those streams 63 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:27,800 now populate is a layer on that eco-mapping application. Okay, so that's all I'm going to show 64 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:32,400 you for that so far. But we are very excited about this project. We've been working on this for 65 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,220 over a year at this point and I think it's a really important step for us in the right direction. 66 00:05:39,250 --> 00:05:43,250 Okay, under recognition awareness education and outreach projects for updates, 67 00:05:43,250 --> 00:05:59,530 It's the August 21st staff feature article in the citizen, spotlighted the effects of residential herbicide and pesticide use that was led by Jesse Lloyd, the upcoming feature article spotlights the updated watershed protection stream map that I just explained to you. 68 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:08,620 Okay, under the nine element watershed plan, of course that we are implementing now for a project update. 69 00:06:08,620 --> 00:06:12,300 The committee that was formed, the nine-element coordination committee, is focused on developing 70 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:17,300 stream corridor projects based on recommendations from our recent assessment project for sucker 71 00:06:17,300 --> 00:06:20,920 in Vanessa Brooks. The subgroup recently convened with a local 72 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:27,160 forward to discuss associated project recommendations for targeted reach along their property, and the 73 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:36,170 next 90 committee meeting is planned for September 23rd. Under watershed lake and tributary monitoring for 74 00:06:36,170 --> 00:06:43,250 for a project update. The bi-weekly OASCO-like tributary monitoring program was conducted on 75 00:06:43,250 --> 00:06:51,370 August 24th, 2026, as well as just yesterday, of course, on the 14th of September. And with 76 00:06:51,370 --> 00:06:56,370 a continued collaboration between Kieger County Planning Department, Aula, Management Council 77 00:06:56,370 --> 00:06:58,170 Council staff and SUNY ESF. 78 00:06:59,090 --> 00:07:09,330 And SUNY ESF is supporting with analysis of data that are being collected and provided 79 00:07:09,330 --> 00:07:12,570 for by the accredited lab that's running those data. 80 00:07:13,730 --> 00:07:18,670 And I'll give you a sense of some of the approaches they plan to use for analyzing interpreting 81 00:07:18,670 --> 00:07:21,410 data and presenting those data to us. 82 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:32,900 So, SUNY-SF students, they've been assisting the partnering professors that we work with 83 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:37,940 on the project from ESF with the development of Infographics and so that's what I'd 84 00:07:37,940 --> 00:07:38,600 like to show you. 85 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:44,660 In fact, you know what I'll do is I'm going to pull up a few slides I wanted to share with 86 00:07:44,660 --> 00:07:45,260 you this morning. 87 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:52,500 Right. 88 00:07:52,820 --> 00:07:53,580 So let's see. 89 00:07:56,050 --> 00:07:58,290 There's a good way to really blow this up. 90 00:07:58,290 --> 00:08:06,010 I should be able to give it a little bit larger just from opening it up the full slide deck. 91 00:08:06,190 --> 00:08:06,710 Okay, there we go. 92 00:08:07,250 --> 00:08:09,050 So this is what they're calling an infographic. 93 00:08:09,090 --> 00:08:10,330 This is one example. 94 00:08:11,450 --> 00:08:13,130 And so this one's titled Too Much of A Good Thing. 95 00:08:13,290 --> 00:08:16,510 What is phosphorus and what you can do to reduce your impact? 96 00:08:16,750 --> 00:08:22,430 So as you know, phosphorus is a key focus for reduction under the nine element plan. 97 00:08:22,710 --> 00:08:26,530 Again, the plan being called the plan for phosphorus reductions specifically. 98 00:08:27,050 --> 00:08:31,790 And that is as leveraging phosphorous limitation to curb 99 00:08:31,790 --> 00:08:35,010 eutrification of the lake, including reducing harmful algal blooms. 100 00:08:35,690 --> 00:08:37,910 So they talk a bit about what phosphorous is. 101 00:08:38,130 --> 00:08:41,910 It's a vital element, but where it becomes problematic, 102 00:08:42,150 --> 00:08:45,510 where it comes from, and then you'll see the small graph figure 103 00:08:45,510 --> 00:08:47,630 they have on the lower right, total phosphorous and awasco, 104 00:08:47,690 --> 00:08:52,490 like tributaries, and it reviews the trends over the course of the year. 105 00:08:53,110 --> 00:08:58,850 So I believe we can expect to see more of these, what they're calling, infographics to help 106 00:08:58,850 --> 00:09:03,970 depict the trends for the water quality constituents that were monitoring for the tributaries this 107 00:09:03,970 --> 00:09:04,150 year. 108 00:09:08,730 --> 00:09:08,870 Okay. 109 00:09:09,070 --> 00:09:12,750 They will also be giving, as soon as it will also be getting underway with a program called 110 00:09:12,750 --> 00:09:16,270 Sharks, it's sampling for healthy aquatic resources with community support. 111 00:09:16,850 --> 00:09:21,810 When Jesse presents his slides this morning, he'll review some of the features of that 112 00:09:21,810 --> 00:09:22,750 particular program. 113 00:09:22,750 --> 00:09:27,410 But really it's in a program that supports student training for analyzing water quality 114 00:09:27,410 --> 00:09:30,830 parameters and community engagement on water quality research. 115 00:09:31,510 --> 00:09:36,130 And there was a program that I'll have supported greatly last year with voluntary sampling. 116 00:09:39,350 --> 00:09:40,750 Okay, moving on. 117 00:09:41,510 --> 00:09:43,970 Just for a quick update on our land holdings, right? 118 00:09:44,110 --> 00:09:47,750 So as a reminder to the group, we have two, as you know, we have the Film More Nature 119 00:09:47,750 --> 00:09:49,770 Preserve and now the Venice Nature Preserve. 120 00:09:50,710 --> 00:09:56,030 So, we've been in contact with our stewards of Venice Preserve recently. 121 00:09:57,340 --> 00:10:01,870 The Venice Preserve contracted stewards are planning to build and install approximately 122 00:10:01,870 --> 00:10:06,870 three to four wood duck boxes in and around the pond area for that preserve. 123 00:10:07,590 --> 00:10:12,350 They have observed several mating pairs of wood ducks and they believe they may be resident 124 00:10:12,350 --> 00:10:17,130 birds, along with a number of other wood ducks moving in and out of the property during 125 00:10:17,130 --> 00:10:17,630 migration. 126 00:10:18,230 --> 00:10:24,910 So, I have engaged with them to ask whether or not they would do us a solid and take some 127 00:10:24,910 --> 00:10:30,650 photos of the work, track progress, and they have agreed to do so, maybe develop a small 128 00:10:30,650 --> 00:10:33,890 report for us that they can share with the board, and give a sense of what's going on over 129 00:10:33,890 --> 00:10:35,130 at the Venice Nature Preserve. 130 00:10:36,610 --> 00:10:41,710 Under the grant projects programs funding and opportunities category for updates there, 131 00:10:42,970 --> 00:10:47,030 We are a laser focus on the sustainer, great lakes, 132 00:10:47,950 --> 00:10:50,390 OASCO inlet, stream bank stabilization project. 133 00:10:50,550 --> 00:10:53,970 I know you've heard a lot about it, but we are heavy with implementation on that project. 134 00:10:54,370 --> 00:11:00,070 The contractor being the Kiwi County soil and water conservation district that's doing the implementation. 135 00:11:02,090 --> 00:11:11,290 The district is currently stabilizing one bank, they're finishing up with one side of the bank at what's 136 00:11:11,290 --> 00:11:17,430 site 5B, that's the first construction site, and they are now moving down further downstream 137 00:11:17,430 --> 00:11:23,510 to continue work under the same site, site 5B, but for the second section, and then 138 00:11:23,510 --> 00:11:26,770 really what we're considering, the third section will be work on the opposing bank. 139 00:11:28,370 --> 00:11:32,190 And Jesse has some photos of that project that he'll share in his slide deck as well. 140 00:11:33,210 --> 00:11:38,950 For an Aula grant update, Aula, of course the Owasco Lake, the Owasco Watershed Lake 141 00:11:38,950 --> 00:11:45,670 association with much gratitude from us recently funded the council's new unmanned aerial 142 00:11:45,670 --> 00:11:52,810 vehicle as we better know is a drone, which is used for monitoring watershed conditions 143 00:11:52,810 --> 00:11:54,290 and other prospective projects. 144 00:11:54,430 --> 00:11:58,870 I believe at least one, if not several of Jesse's photos, that he'll display this morning will 145 00:11:58,870 --> 00:12:03,330 show how that drone is already being used for monitoring projects in the watershed. 146 00:12:05,130 --> 00:12:12,010 Okay, for a proposed project that day, I shared last month that there's a new grant program 147 00:12:12,010 --> 00:12:17,030 and solicitation from the DEC for HABS Research, Harmful Algo Bloom's Research. 148 00:12:18,070 --> 00:12:21,950 And we are partnering with Global Aquatic Research. 149 00:12:22,110 --> 00:12:23,090 You may remember that group. 150 00:12:23,190 --> 00:12:27,610 We've partnered with them in the past on a proposal. 151 00:12:27,870 --> 00:12:33,090 We wrote a letter of support for the proposal submitted by Dr. Richard Smith of SUNY Brock 152 00:12:33,090 --> 00:12:39,170 report and that the title of that is the role of P&N that's phosphorus in nitrogen containing 153 00:12:39,170 --> 00:12:43,270 organic matter infueling microcystus blooms in the finger lakes. 154 00:12:43,550 --> 00:12:46,530 So we would be one of several lakes that they would study under that grant. 155 00:12:47,330 --> 00:12:53,070 We have committed to providing some in-kind match and if they get the project it would also 156 00:12:53,070 --> 00:12:55,630 be a small source of revenue for us to cover some of our time. 157 00:12:56,030 --> 00:12:59,610 And I provided more details in the written report but I won't go over all of that. 158 00:13:03,330 --> 00:13:03,650 Okay. 159 00:13:03,650 --> 00:13:03,830 Right, 160 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:14,480 so under New York State relevant bills and rule makings, I do want to provide an update on the New York State 161 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:15,840 leachate rule making. 162 00:13:16,140 --> 00:13:25,660 This has been sort of a, I would say, progressive approach by those of us who work in the space who are looking to get better protections around 163 00:13:26,580 --> 00:13:36,120 leachate discharge to wastewater treatment facilities where it is not adequately treated before being released to the environment. 164 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:53,740 So, as a signatory, the Management Council joined the New York River Watch and River Keeper along with organizations and community groups from across New York State and calling on the New York State DEC to strengthen its proposed regulations and adopt comprehensive enforceable protections for human health and the environment. 165 00:13:54,300 --> 00:14:05,780 For decades, hundreds of millions of gallons of toxic landfill leachate have been sent to sewage treatment plants across New York State, most without pre-treatment before being discharged into New York State waterways. 166 00:14:05,780 --> 00:14:10,320 The DEC's proposed regulations are important for step yet they are limited in scope. 167 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:16,720 The letter urges DEC to strengthen the proposed regulations by requiring pre-treatment for 168 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:22,280 all landfills, collecting leachate, including inactive facilities, requiring treatment of 169 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:29,520 PFAS and other contaminants to the most protective applicable standards, ensuring treatment technologies 170 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:35,000 keep pace with the best available science, preventing toxic contaminants from being transferred 171 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:40,420 from lead shade into other waste streams, establishing strong financial reporting monitoring 172 00:14:40,420 --> 00:14:45,700 and permit requirements, and ensuring that polluters, not local communities and taxpayers 173 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:48,320 bear the cost of managing toxic lead shade. 174 00:14:49,940 --> 00:14:51,060 This is a reminder. 175 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:56,320 The reason this is important is that if you can envision all of the chemicals that would 176 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,900 collect at the bottom of a landfill due to precipitation mostly rainwater. 177 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:29,680 That currently is being allowed to be delivered to wastewater treatment facilities to run through their system, where there is no treatment mechanism for removing those contaminants before it's discharged into our waterways. So this is a very important issue in my opinion. One more sign on letter to wrap up the report. We signed a public comment letter to the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency regarding their failure to include microplastics, monitoring requirements, 178 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,960 under the proposed sixth unregulated contaminant monitoring rule. 179 00:15:35,020 --> 00:15:40,620 So really just trying to make sure that they're keeping up with their obligations 180 00:15:40,620 --> 00:15:43,880 when it comes to what are considered emerging contaminants. 181 00:15:46,020 --> 00:15:52,460 Okay, that's it. So I'd like to open up the forum to any feedback from the board of directors 182 00:15:52,460 --> 00:15:55,680 and representatives from the municipalities. Any thoughts, comments, questions? 183 00:16:00,380 --> 00:16:07,240 Yes, yes, so this is what they're calling an infographic, the professors that we partner 184 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:12,620 with on the tributary monitoring program, they've put their students up to help you 185 00:16:12,620 --> 00:16:16,620 them not only with the data analysis but preparing these infographics for us, right? 186 00:16:17,060 --> 00:16:18,360 So this is important for us, right? 187 00:16:18,460 --> 00:16:23,980 So as a watershed management group and we work closely with lake managers, we're a data 188 00:16:23,980 --> 00:16:25,040 driven organization. 189 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:30,500 We want to understand what's going on, we want to make our decisions and project 190 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:33,780 determinations based on what science is telling us, right? 191 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:39,100 So ensuring that we're having good interpretation of the data and that we're tracking what's 192 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:42,280 going on from a water quality standpoint is critical to our efforts. 193 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,420 Adam, how is the phosphorus level in our lake or do it, Jesse? 194 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:52,060 The phosphorus levels in the lake? 195 00:16:52,060 --> 00:16:54,840 In the past, they said it's not that high in a wasco lake. 196 00:16:54,940 --> 00:16:57,100 Yeah, so that's what's really interesting, right? 197 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:02,040 So a wasco lake is, many of the finger lakes 198 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:04,660 is considered a nutrient poor lake. 199 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:07,860 So it has relatively low nutrient content. 200 00:17:08,260 --> 00:17:11,520 It rides somewhere between oligotrophic and mesotrophic 201 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:15,160 to sort of like low level of primary production 202 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:16,020 or eutrophication. 203 00:17:16,020 --> 00:17:17,580 Essentially, those are terms that 204 00:17:17,580 --> 00:17:19,580 are associated with the growth of macrophytes 205 00:17:19,580 --> 00:17:26,420 or weeds, and algae, and sort of an intermediate level of production would be the mesotrophic 206 00:17:26,420 --> 00:17:27,140 definition, right? 207 00:17:27,340 --> 00:17:32,060 So they're glacial lakes, they're nutrient poor, and so that leads to the question that 208 00:17:32,060 --> 00:17:36,640 many researchers are now studying, why are we experiencing these harmful algal blooms, right? 209 00:17:36,740 --> 00:17:41,640 So like, what are the adaptive strategies of the organism, the cyanobacteria that allow 210 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:47,020 them to access nutrients in nutrient poor lakes so that they can manifest these blooms, 211 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:48,340 these toxic blooms in the surface? 212 00:17:48,340 --> 00:17:54,940 Some of the emerging research is showing that they are adept at resourcing nutrients from 213 00:17:54,940 --> 00:18:00,420 the bottom of the lake, and there is likely a significant pool at the bottom because 214 00:18:00,420 --> 00:18:07,580 that the receiving water body has been receiving watershed runoff and nutrients and sediments 215 00:18:07,580 --> 00:18:10,720 that have pooled in the bottom of the lake for decades now. 216 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:18,800 So it is a curiosity and it certainly encourages the need for a continued research to understand 217 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,700 why we're better understand why we're experiencing these blooms in these nutrient-poor systems. 218 00:18:26,740 --> 00:18:27,400 Any other questions? 219 00:18:32,710 --> 00:18:33,230 Presentation. 220 00:18:36,030 --> 00:18:36,550 Presentation. 221 00:18:36,790 --> 00:18:37,130 Presentation for what? 222 00:18:41,090 --> 00:18:41,310 Yes. 223 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,500 So we don't have a presentation yet set up with them. 224 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:53,360 What I would like to do as we've done in years past is when they've completed with their 225 00:18:53,360 --> 00:19:06,320 their analysis of the lab accredited data that we've collected that they can come in and they can actually present the trends that they've identified to help us understand how we want to move forward. 226 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:11,360 It's not scheduled yet. Yeah. You're welcome. 227 00:19:17,330 --> 00:19:20,290 Okay. Any other questions? Comments? Concerns? 228 00:19:22,630 --> 00:19:27,790 Okay. Otherwise we do not have a keynote today. 229 00:19:27,790 --> 00:19:31,720 We will shift on to 230 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:44,380 our Treasurer's Audit and Finance Report. 231 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,300 And these will be the August 2026 financials. 232 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:55,480 Joan is not with us today, of course, as our treasurer and Jenny Kent offered to provide the financials for August for us. 233 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:56,640 Thank you, Adam. 234 00:19:57,620 --> 00:19:57,800 Welcome. 235 00:19:58,500 --> 00:20:02,380 So this is, as Adam said, August 2026 figures. 236 00:20:02,380 --> 00:20:21,100 dollars, Tom Pins checking, $255,399.55. Total current assets, $556,410.30, total liabilities 237 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:27,220 and equity, $584,513.79. 238 00:20:29,990 --> 00:20:30,750 Questions? 239 00:20:34,670 --> 00:20:40,110 Thanks, Jenny. So, we'll bring those back again next month for Quorum, hopefully Quorum. 240 00:20:41,230 --> 00:20:44,670 And then we can bring a motion for approval then. Thanks, Jenny. 241 00:20:46,030 --> 00:20:55,490 All right. With that, next on the agenda is a lake level report update with John West. I believe we have John on with us this morning. Good morning, John. 242 00:20:55,490 --> 00:20:56,330 Not 243 00:20:59,280 --> 00:20:59,900 too much, really. 244 00:21:06,460 --> 00:21:09,100 We have to put the rate to get first week of the month, 245 00:21:09,420 --> 00:21:11,900 so we're just operating in that range. 246 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,380 As far as drawing down, we'll see how we move over 247 00:21:15,380 --> 00:21:16,680 the next month as possible. 248 00:21:17,420 --> 00:21:19,520 Mentally, I told you we could start drawing down. 249 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:20,840 Depending on where we're at, 250 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:22,780 I'll be too late, I told her. 251 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:24,040 We start with that. 252 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,620 And then, like obviously, we're testing for abs every Tuesday, Thursday. 253 00:21:29,380 --> 00:21:32,180 We're pretty consistently getting positive results back 254 00:21:32,180 --> 00:21:35,520 that we're on anywhere from a half to one part for a billion. 255 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:39,160 I imagine we'll be a history of probably being 256 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:40,600 a wait for at least another one for yourself. 257 00:21:41,180 --> 00:21:41,840 That's all I have. 258 00:21:44,090 --> 00:21:44,750 Thank you, John. 259 00:21:44,930 --> 00:21:47,310 That's a level down on the micro-system. 260 00:21:47,630 --> 00:21:47,950 Is that neat? 261 00:21:48,310 --> 00:21:48,790 Where's the proponent? 262 00:21:49,370 --> 00:21:51,310 Jesse, you probably have to speak into the mic. 263 00:21:51,770 --> 00:21:52,210 So I hate town. 264 00:21:52,270 --> 00:21:54,970 I was just asking, what's the actual level for the micro-system though? 265 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,420 Well, so the numbers I'm giving you, so I think we were on numbers. 266 00:22:03,140 --> 00:22:05,140 Our finished water numbers are not intact. 267 00:22:05,140 --> 00:22:16,020 They should make accurate. Those of the raw water they cover, there's no real action well on the raw number. On the digital waters, it's a point three. There's where there be public information. 268 00:22:28,140 --> 00:22:28,660 Thank 269 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:31,600 you, John. 270 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:38,960 John, you initiate the carbon filtration systems annually and seasonally regardless of whether 271 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,120 or not there's a hit, right? 272 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:40,780 What 273 00:22:43,180 --> 00:22:46,820 we do is we kind of move visual line three of what's coming to the plant will take the sample. 274 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,600 I'm right through a way of memory and feel free to put it on the right condition. 275 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:56,020 And you can kind of see some of the, you know, some of the regrets that we know the season might be starting. 276 00:22:56,780 --> 00:22:58,860 At that point, we'll take an initial test. 277 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,940 And if we have a non-attack in the raw water, we'll wait another week and take a test. 278 00:23:03,380 --> 00:23:12,400 Then once our raw water starts to have a hit, then we'll test twice a week until we have the point where we start having non-attacks in the raw water. 279 00:23:14,460 --> 00:23:16,500 Great. Thanks for that information, John. 280 00:23:17,780 --> 00:23:17,940 Good. 281 00:23:20,230 --> 00:23:25,570 Okay. Very good. Moving on. I see that we have Gabriel Yurden with us representing the New 282 00:23:25,570 --> 00:23:28,590 York State DEC Finger Lakes watershed program. Good morning, Gabriel. 283 00:23:28,590 --> 00:23:29,770 from 284 00:23:34,150 --> 00:23:45,480 the resources that have opened up like Ontario Lake White Action Management plans are available for public viewing comment 285 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:53,380 importance of the 2012 Great Lakes Waterbuckle Agreement and drafts just 23 in 2007 286 00:23:53,380 --> 00:24:01,560 they might actually amend the plan or land early Ontario in a draft of the 2024-2028 land 287 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,540 of the theory that they're prepared and they're available for public comment through September 288 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:07,100 25th. 289 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:12,580 I reminded that the clean waters they were involved in, but during the waters they were involved 290 00:24:12,580 --> 00:24:19,580 with the plan, draft intended these plans for the next fiscal year are also open for public 291 00:24:19,580 --> 00:24:20,000 comment. 292 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:26,400 and there's another week that will come in period close on September 23rd. 293 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:31,040 And our binder that there are going to be a report station round remains open. 294 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:34,840 The album is going to be open to the second round of $20 million. 295 00:24:35,860 --> 00:24:38,920 From now on, back in London, for a lot of field tree planting 296 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:45,320 and forest restoration products, those grants are of $300,000 to $3 million 297 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,800 and with water content, such as their smaller projects, 298 00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:52,440 on the size of the 1000, and that opportunities 299 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,020 open till November 4th. 300 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:58,380 And a little more needs are related, 301 00:24:58,780 --> 00:25:01,580 need from BEC, BEC is looking around, 302 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,760 collecting tree fruits and cubs, 303 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:07,060 and pays by the threshold to, for, really, 304 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,640 a forest and harvest them. 305 00:25:09,140 --> 00:25:13,640 This is to support the more than 1.2 million seedlings 306 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,560 for a year, I've just paid the tree, actually, through a 307 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:22,220 collection program, the third ground, the Saratovich tree, 308 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,900 nursery, and then they help support New York's 309 00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:28,940 free forestry and projects across the state by 310 00:25:28,940 --> 00:25:31,080 growing native forest species. 311 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,200 So we're looking first to spread that word out to the community. 312 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:40,420 And lastly, recently announced the increase of grants, 313 00:25:40,420 --> 00:25:45,460 through the years to be best focused on the program and this one day wants to arena 314 00:25:45,460 --> 00:25:50,900 as Miss Palatine support will install an upgrade boat, suit it without their exclusion 315 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:56,460 and factor water quality, best for recreation, tourism, fishery, and coastal ecosystems, 316 00:25:57,460 --> 00:26:03,000 and arena owners, Miss Palatine and non-profit organizations that will apply for the grants, 317 00:26:03,620 --> 00:26:06,500 those are through the SCE and environmental facilities for preparation, 318 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:08,800 and are accepted on an early basis. 319 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:15,080 and that's funded through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through person-fishing 320 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:20,540 for men and motorboat fields. That's on the continued available funding for 321 00:26:20,540 --> 00:26:26,600 station and facility upgrades and needs forters, facility operations, maintenance, and public education. 322 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,420 And that's why I was wanting to thank you. 323 00:26:30,580 --> 00:26:32,260 I have a question for you. 324 00:26:32,780 --> 00:26:36,580 Could you, what is the con-collection thing again? 325 00:26:37,980 --> 00:26:42,480 I will post some or out for some information. 326 00:26:43,580 --> 00:26:49,340 The atom of the easiest pays participating people across the state 327 00:26:49,340 --> 00:26:55,700 to help collect seeds, cones, and berries from trees and bushes that they grow 328 00:26:55,700 --> 00:27:01,860 at the state tree nursery, and that's all aimed at helping the near state tree forest 329 00:27:20,060 --> 00:27:28,100 So is that something that school groups or Girl Scout, Boy Scout, 4-H groups could get into? 330 00:27:29,020 --> 00:27:42,120 Yeah, absolutely. And obviously, the Senate, what there, who's doing it, but some of these pay up to $135.00 or so per 331 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:47,700 commercial, or it's a great, you have a community building or public outreach opportunity also. 332 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:53,440 And so do they contact the local DEC to get into something like that? 333 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:53,500 Yeah. 334 00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:55,740 Yeah. 335 00:27:55,860 --> 00:27:56,980 I will give them their rejects. 336 00:27:57,020 --> 00:28:00,520 And then if you're hired, just make sure that they have a hinder quote out for each individual's 337 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:08,020 EC is any soon as you get confirmation that they're still looking for SBC then you can coordinate 338 00:28:08,020 --> 00:28:13,780 into collected, ship, ship, or a total of EC on this. 339 00:28:14,020 --> 00:28:14,820 So how about that? 340 00:28:15,980 --> 00:28:16,620 Thank you. 341 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:22,200 Thanks for your question, Terry. 342 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:23,120 Thank you. 343 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:24,960 Any other questions for Gabriel? 344 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:27,840 Thank you, Gabriel. 345 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,840 All right, let's move on to an update from Aula, 346 00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:33,560 from the Wasco-Archer Lake Association. 347 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,040 Do you have anything for us? 348 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:35,520 You want to share? 349 00:28:39,250 --> 00:28:40,690 Come up to the mic there if you would. 350 00:28:43,950 --> 00:28:46,070 Board of Directors meeting on Wednesday, 351 00:28:46,350 --> 00:28:54,510 and then we'll have just a strategy meeting for board members on Saturday and 19th. 352 00:28:57,030 --> 00:29:04,310 We've got the ESF grant that we're funding their study in PFAS and chemicals in the 353 00:29:04,310 --> 00:29:04,970 Alaska Lake. 354 00:29:05,750 --> 00:29:06,870 That should be coming up. 355 00:29:07,290 --> 00:29:13,610 There was a preliminary approval, they'll start probably fall and spring, should have 356 00:29:13,610 --> 00:29:20,870 results in the year, so we're working on the hemological, the adalgae program is moving 357 00:29:20,870 --> 00:29:32,190 a long or funding about 46,000 and treatments for trees in high-risk areas and we're in 358 00:29:32,190 --> 00:29:37,290 ditch remediation projects trying to make sure that their diss erosion is under control 359 00:29:37,290 --> 00:29:38,190 or out in the watershed. 360 00:29:41,430 --> 00:29:45,470 There was a highlights we're starting now to think about the Bob Brewer scientific symposium 361 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,310 plans for March 13th, 2027. 362 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:53,320 That's great. 363 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:58,810 Thank you Dr. Dreyer. 364 00:30:01,170 --> 00:30:15,150 That's great. We certainly appreciate Aula's partnership and all things. All right. Moving on, we'll move on to our watershed inspection monthly report with Jesse, Jesse Lloyd. 365 00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:34,140 Good morning, everyone. 366 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:49,860 This is a photo from the old ruined bridges of Wasco watershed collection. This one's on Old Genoa Road in Locke. If anybody knows of the kind of these old retired bridges, 367 00:30:49,860 --> 00:31:03,440 I was speaking with our resident who had an old Creosel bridge on his property and was wondering if there was any kind of money or projects to get rid of them. 368 00:31:04,220 --> 00:31:14,520 And I think if we knew where there was more bridges that maybe need to be taken out for various reasons that maybe we could get some kind of projects started. 369 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:24,400 So if anybody knows of any old bridges that looks us back, you know, might be taken out and let me know and I can add them to my list. 370 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,260 This one is an old general road lock on Hemlock Creek. 371 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:35,400 Yes, are they personal use bridges and personal property? 372 00:31:36,140 --> 00:31:36,660 Yeah, 373 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,560 you know, typically these bridges are older and defonked and kind of fallen apart. 374 00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:50,580 So, yeah, just if there's anything that might be interesting, let me know, come check it out. 375 00:31:51,060 --> 00:31:51,300 Thank you. 376 00:31:57,900 --> 00:32:00,380 So, there's already a follow-up site suspected. 377 00:32:00,780 --> 00:32:02,160 It's kind of nice this time of year. 378 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:08,440 A lot of sites are kind of wrapping up, and they're getting stabilized, getting their grass in, and getting complete. 379 00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:10,460 The five sites that are completed. 380 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,840 I know the new sites discovered this month. 381 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,360 Let's see, this is all over the watershed here. 382 00:32:23,710 --> 00:32:30,030 Completed two rounds of trip areas sampling with ALO, as Adam said that this is what was 383 00:32:30,030 --> 00:32:31,270 our last scheduled event. 384 00:32:31,990 --> 00:32:38,230 There is a talk and maybe a possibility of doing a storm water sampling event in the 385 00:32:38,610 --> 00:32:42,210 near future, but we're not sure about that one yet, we're going to have to get together 386 00:32:42,210 --> 00:32:46,650 with ALO and make sure that they have the funding for it and the manpower. 387 00:32:47,050 --> 00:32:47,910 Where is that? 388 00:32:48,730 --> 00:32:49,070 What's that? 389 00:32:49,630 --> 00:32:57,050 Oh that one that's right as it going out of gravy on 38 yeah so 390 00:33:01,430 --> 00:33:01,810 I spoke about 391 00:33:01,810 --> 00:33:06,790 this project last month a little bit we're trying to get these trails rehabbed 392 00:33:06,790 --> 00:33:11,510 on the south and wasco lake around the swamp there we're gonna be having a 393 00:33:11,510 --> 00:33:17,710 meeting with the wetlands trust to county parks and trails and ala to see just 394 00:33:17,710 --> 00:33:21,330 to have everybody get down there take a look at what we got try to figure out 395 00:33:21,330 --> 00:33:24,830 exactly what needs to get done and how much it will cost, how we're going to do it, 396 00:33:25,470 --> 00:33:27,430 trying to keep momentum going on this project. 397 00:33:28,150 --> 00:33:31,190 It's going to be, once we get down there and we get these things cleared out, 398 00:33:31,350 --> 00:33:35,290 it's going to be really interesting and be really good for the community. 399 00:33:37,990 --> 00:33:41,270 So these are, if you walk the trail, it goes along the Wasco inlet 400 00:33:41,270 --> 00:33:42,950 and you can kind of see the inlet in the background. 401 00:33:43,350 --> 00:33:45,090 It's real slow and swampy through there. 402 00:33:46,690 --> 00:33:49,750 This is the, I put this picture here because this is the power of Willow. 403 00:33:50,190 --> 00:33:53,010 Somebody cut this piece of Willow and just stuck it in for a 404 00:33:53,010 --> 00:33:56,850 the holder fishing rod and it started to grow and this 405 00:34:01,870 --> 00:34:04,450 is the north part of the 406 00:34:04,450 --> 00:34:10,170 trail where parks and trails has been maintaining this boardwalk for at least 407 00:34:10,170 --> 00:34:18,530 a decade maybe more but it will connect with you know the snow cloud 408 00:34:18,530 --> 00:34:23,190 turnaround area to this and then back up the road and then down the road to 409 00:34:23,190 --> 00:34:27,570 tracks, hopefully that's the ultimate goal of this project. 410 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:39,840 I help, you know, often people call me about permitting questions, which knowing exactly 411 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,920 what kind of permits that you need to do, what kind of job with the DEC is kind of sometimes 412 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:49,680 difficult to figure out, I have a couple of, especially one woman I know in the DEC that 413 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:54,040 works in this department, and she is great, you know, I just get pictures to gather with 414 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:58,860 there and just send her a general email, send her the information and she tells me exactly 415 00:34:58,860 --> 00:35:02,520 what kind of permits and what agencies we need to talk to. 416 00:35:05,740 --> 00:35:08,880 So somebody out with doing that this month, and 417 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:15,780 this was kind of interesting, this is 418 00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:22,160 over on Firelink 26, I've never seen this before, there's these old defunct outhouses right 419 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,260 by the lake and you see that there was a lot of, 420 00:35:27,540 --> 00:35:29,000 you know, there's a big dumpster here that's 421 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,640 getting filled up. And so I spoke with Pat Dwayne, who was a code officer for this area 422 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:38,700 and Chris Scholl, who works with the Department of Health, and turned out that this area wasn't 423 00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:44,480 pretty bad disarray, and it had gone, the people had not been paying their taxes and went 424 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:51,660 up for tax sale until for 800K. And so they were in there getting this stuff cleaned up, both 425 00:35:51,660 --> 00:35:56,240 the Department of Health and code officer are very happy to see this property getting cleaned 426 00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:58,860 up because it was quite the mess in the past. 427 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,760 Are there plans for that property? 428 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,900 From what I heard, they're going to get it all cleaned up and then subdivided into four 429 00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:07,520 lots. 430 00:36:07,980 --> 00:36:13,460 I'm not sure if they're going to build before they sell it or what their plans are, but I don't 431 00:36:13,460 --> 00:36:13,560 know. 432 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:14,740 It's a great piece of property. 433 00:36:15,020 --> 00:36:19,120 It's, you know, right as beachfronts like 900 feet right on the lake level. 434 00:36:19,860 --> 00:36:20,060 Yeah. 435 00:36:20,540 --> 00:36:25,840 There's not a lot of properties like this one, so I think they'll have a good return on their 436 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:26,260 investment. 437 00:36:31,890 --> 00:36:36,830 So here's this toggle site that Adam was referring to. This was on September 438 00:36:36,830 --> 00:36:41,850 2nd. These pictures here, you can see that they've shorted up this bank. There's this 439 00:36:41,850 --> 00:36:48,270 corner here that was getting eroded pretty heavily. You see this is obviously a work in 440 00:36:48,270 --> 00:36:49,730 progress that's not finished yet. 441 00:36:52,860 --> 00:36:58,080 These pictures were taken from our new drone. Aula gave 442 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:06,140 us money for a new drone. We got a Mavic 4 DJI. It's an awesome drone. I kind of have 443 00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:12,040 trouble figuring out how to watch the videos on it yet, so I need to download an app 444 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:13,600 but I'm going to look into that more. 445 00:37:16,130 --> 00:37:18,950 But this site, this particular reach here at this 446 00:37:18,950 --> 00:37:23,870 corner is pretty much finished up. We have Willow planted and we're going to be moving down 447 00:37:23,870 --> 00:37:29,310 the stream about 100 feet to do the next reach. Which is going to be very similar kind of 448 00:37:29,310 --> 00:37:31,590 rip rap hard scape protection. 449 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,480 It was happening on September 3rd in Locke, downtown. 450 00:37:39,940 --> 00:37:41,620 Everybody kind of expects it to happen. 451 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:44,640 Coming down the hill on 90, you know, 452 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,860 blew through 38 and ended up overturning 453 00:37:47,860 --> 00:37:49,140 before going around the corner. 454 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,620 When you see it, it was like, oh man, 455 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:53,600 this is a total mess. 456 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:54,480 Luckily, it wasn't. 457 00:37:54,580 --> 00:37:56,520 There was no petroleum spill in from this. 458 00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,160 We contacted the DEC to see if, you know, 459 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:01,940 maybe they would take over the cleanup. 460 00:38:01,940 --> 00:38:07,300 but they're only take over cleanups when there's other petroleum or what's you 461 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:11,960 know consider hazardous material and this dry trash cannot follow on to fall 462 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,260 underneath that criteria. 463 00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:22,480 I'm not sure exactly where it was going now yeah yeah 464 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,040 That truck was loaded. 465 00:38:24,620 --> 00:38:25,400 Oh, yeah. 466 00:38:25,420 --> 00:38:28,660 Well, like a couple of hours to get it. 467 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:29,200 Took a long time. 468 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,480 Damaged your cars and the house next to you. 469 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:32,440 Took a utility. 470 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:33,280 Oh, two to me. 471 00:38:33,540 --> 00:38:33,860 Yeah. 472 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:35,880 Did anyone get your mail that day? 473 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,620 Yeah, that's how you get into the post office right there. 474 00:38:44,730 --> 00:38:46,170 Yeah, so they came down the hill on 90. 475 00:38:46,790 --> 00:38:47,130 And 476 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,920 again, here's some drone footage of it. 477 00:38:54,940 --> 00:38:57,780 I couldn't get it to take a lot of photos with the drone 478 00:38:57,780 --> 00:39:01,540 because you can't fly the drone over people's heads and there was quite a few 479 00:39:01,540 --> 00:39:05,220 agencies and people milling around here so I had to kind of be careful where I flew 480 00:39:05,220 --> 00:39:07,420 the drone. It's a pretty good shot. 481 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:13,260 Oh so when I first got there they thought 482 00:39:13,260 --> 00:39:17,420 that there was a storm drain right underneath all this trash so I went down to see 483 00:39:17,420 --> 00:39:21,580 where it went into the inlet but turned out that there was not a storm drain 484 00:39:21,580 --> 00:39:26,920 there so that was a good thing. There really wasn't any water quality issues 485 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,880 is associated with this one. 486 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,220 We had a resident called Pat Doyle, a codes officer. 487 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,840 He said that there was this pile of dirt 488 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,940 that just showed up at the end of Old Genoa Road 489 00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:45,440 and that they were convinced that it came from somebody 490 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:48,900 doing work on a septic system. 491 00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:52,860 And so Department of Health was called, actually, 492 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:54,160 DEC, we came in. 493 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,220 We kind of all went down there, did our little investigation, 494 00:39:57,220 --> 00:40:03,840 to try to figure out where it came from, we ended up finding out that it was not from 495 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:11,040 a leach field but it was a bi-distribution back box for a septic system. There wasn't 496 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:20,680 any clear obvious signs that there was septic in this material. If it had been, then we 497 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:25,840 spoke to the DEC, they said, hey, if you guys figured out that conclusively this has material 498 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:32,440 from septic system in it, they would have, you know, quickly issued a violation and started 499 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:33,840 to clean up process on this. 500 00:40:35,020 --> 00:40:39,400 But we determined that it's really not a hazard to the area. 501 00:40:42,650 --> 00:40:47,830 Like Adam said, the Shark Sam, ESF has the Shark Sampling event coming up October 3rd. 502 00:40:47,870 --> 00:40:53,330 I'm going to get this up on our Facebook website, so if anybody wants to get out there to 503 00:40:53,330 --> 00:40:55,430 get some sampling, do some sampling. 504 00:40:56,030 --> 00:41:02,850 So basically our office is going to be a collection point, we'll have a bin out there that will contain sampling containers. 505 00:41:03,550 --> 00:41:11,830 All you got to do, you take a sampling container and there'll be pieces of paper that is pretty easy to fill out. 506 00:41:11,990 --> 00:41:22,450 You know, it will take you through it, you send the QR code and you take a picture of your site which will give the latitude and longitude of the sample, fill out the label, bring it back, and that's all you really got to do. 507 00:41:22,450 --> 00:41:29,150 So the point of this sampling event is to be a snapshot of one particular time. 508 00:41:29,970 --> 00:41:34,910 So I believe this is, it's usually a Saturday or Sunday that they do it and you're supposed 509 00:41:34,910 --> 00:41:42,030 to take the sample between like a two hour window with pretty interesting event. 510 00:41:45,470 --> 00:41:48,050 This is what it looked like from last year. 511 00:41:49,350 --> 00:41:53,710 You can see that all these over here are the sampling locations from last year and you can 512 00:41:53,710 --> 00:41:59,930 click on them and get the information associated with them. They don't have all the information 513 00:41:59,930 --> 00:42:05,050 up yet. You can see like phosphorous and nitrates are all zeros for these. They need 514 00:42:05,050 --> 00:42:09,990 to populate that data yet for a lot of these samples. But that's 515 00:42:14,470 --> 00:42:17,510 it. Any questions or comments? 516 00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:27,260 If anybody is interested in the Shark Sampling event, let me know and be able to give you further 517 00:42:27,260 --> 00:42:29,300 information. Thank 518 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,200 you, Jesse. Great work. 519 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,140 Before we wrap up here, there were just a few more slides 520 00:43:03,140 --> 00:43:08,900 I wanted to breeze through with the boards to provide a few updates on some of our projects here. 521 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,600 Okay, so this was a solicitation that came out recently from the Kiwi County Planning Department. 522 00:43:15,980 --> 00:43:21,000 Of course, our closest working partner there, Michelle Wonderlick. She's organized what she's 523 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:26,720 calling a stormwater smart workshop that will be on October 10th from 10 a.m. to 1130 524 00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:31,000 at Emerson Park at Doval Island at the shelter there. 525 00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:37,600 And what it is is it's hands-on activity that will provide a live demonstration on how 526 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:45,940 to compost effectively, how to reduce food waste at home and also exploring what the carbon 527 00:43:45,940 --> 00:43:48,560 footprint is and how you can reduce yours. 528 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:55,400 And from what I see here, there will be a free compost bin, one per household that will 529 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,400 be a walk away item for those who participate in this event. 530 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:06,220 So please feel free to circulate this with your municipalities, colleagues, and I think 531 00:44:06,220 --> 00:44:10,200 it's a positive event and composting is very important. 532 00:44:14,050 --> 00:44:20,290 And I just wanted to provide an example of the reports on the ongoing, sustainable and 533 00:44:20,290 --> 00:44:23,610 lakes, grant project that we're operating, the Stream Make 534 00:44:23,610 --> 00:44:25,590 Stabilization Project on the OASCO inlet. 535 00:44:26,110 --> 00:44:28,410 So one of our contractors is EA Engineering. 536 00:44:29,050 --> 00:44:31,490 And they've been on site, working closely with Jesse, 537 00:44:31,870 --> 00:44:34,230 to track progress at the site, make sure 538 00:44:34,230 --> 00:44:35,830 that we're implementing the project according 539 00:44:35,830 --> 00:44:36,850 to our permit guidelines. 540 00:44:37,370 --> 00:44:39,250 And so they just have a reporting document every time 541 00:44:39,250 --> 00:44:41,210 they're on site, they go through this document. 542 00:44:41,570 --> 00:44:43,610 They fill out the various features of the document 543 00:44:43,610 --> 00:44:44,790 to track the construction. 544 00:44:45,890 --> 00:44:48,410 And there are some photos here that are provided 545 00:44:48,410 --> 00:44:55,010 within that document, and these are slightly newer than what Jesse showed. You can't see 546 00:44:55,010 --> 00:44:59,670 it very well, but the top two photos do show the willow being installed. 547 00:45:00,860 --> 00:45:11,380 So that's really the latest, that installation was the end of this last week. So we're happy to see that what we call soft practice being installed there along the stream bank. 548 00:45:13,890 --> 00:45:20,050 Again, the willow being staged in that photo on the top left and lower right. So that's it. 549 00:45:22,730 --> 00:45:32,650 Okay. Anyway, I, uh, before we wrap up here, I'd like to open the forum to any further communications for the group. Yeah, I'm just curious, where does that willow come from? 550 00:45:32,650 --> 00:45:42,070 Right, so that willow is an in-kind contribution to the project in partnership with SUNY ESF. 551 00:45:42,890 --> 00:45:51,250 They have a field station in Tully that has a wide swath of willow growing around the 552 00:45:51,250 --> 00:45:57,010 field station and you know it's very generous of them to bring that material to bear for 553 00:45:57,010 --> 00:46:00,150 this project and of course we're very grateful for that. 554 00:46:04,850 --> 00:46:07,390 in the other points of communication before we wrap up. 555 00:46:08,330 --> 00:46:09,710 Any issues of concern? 556 00:46:10,970 --> 00:46:11,810 Okay, I'll share with the group. 557 00:46:12,370 --> 00:46:14,230 As we know, we didn't have quorum today, 558 00:46:15,150 --> 00:46:17,850 and we are, and you'll note at the top of the agenda, 559 00:46:17,850 --> 00:46:21,850 with all of the directorships listed, 560 00:46:22,070 --> 00:46:25,070 as well as the representatives for each municipality's 561 00:46:25,070 --> 00:46:29,450 directorship on the board, that we are shy on representation 562 00:46:29,450 --> 00:46:31,150 now from a couple of municipalities. 563 00:46:31,930 --> 00:46:34,450 In particular, both the town of Dryden, 564 00:46:34,450 --> 00:46:39,250 You'll recall we had Anne Clark, she typically joined us remotely, so I'll reach out to 565 00:46:39,250 --> 00:46:40,250 Anne to nudge her. 566 00:46:40,610 --> 00:46:46,450 She encouraged that she would engage with the board to request that they fill her vacancy. 567 00:46:47,170 --> 00:46:49,650 And then, of course, also the town of Huasco with Ed's departure. 568 00:46:49,930 --> 00:46:55,350 So I did, I wrote a formal letter to the town that was delivered to the board for review requesting 569 00:46:55,350 --> 00:46:57,930 that they fill that role to represent on our board. 570 00:46:58,550 --> 00:47:00,370 And of course, they have yet to do so. 571 00:47:00,490 --> 00:47:01,270 I haven't heard anything. 572 00:47:01,370 --> 00:47:03,150 So I'll nudge the town of Huasco as well. 573 00:47:03,150 --> 00:47:03,930 any 574 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:08,460 other issues of concern? 575 00:47:10,780 --> 00:47:13,380 Okay with that let's schedule our next meeting from 576 00:47:13,380 --> 00:47:16,720 what I can tell what we can stay consistent with our common schedule. The 577 00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:23,540 third Tuesday of September of course is our excuse me of October is the 20th 578 00:47:24,300 --> 00:47:29,520 and we all will maintain this in-person and zoom-integrated setting for the 579 00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:32,860 group. May I have a sponsor to adjourn? 580 00:47:35,860 --> 00:47:38,980 All those in favor? Okay motion carries 581 00:47:38,980 --> 00:47:40,760 Have a great day, thank you all for being here this morning.