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I did awesome.

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Yeah, we got a bigger one.

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We got a bigger one.

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There he is.

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What's that?

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What's that?

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That's what he's got.

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Oh, that's funny.

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What's that?

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What's that?

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You want to work with him?

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Let me just get out of our weather and base,

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by the way.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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This one's pretty much the same.

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Yeah.

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We already got a water over here.

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I think

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that the other is the new.

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We have the same 4 music skills that I like.

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How do you know?

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I've always been seen in the event.

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Even after the meeting was over.

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Last night we got out before 10 o'clock.

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It's only a closed session.

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It's only a closed session.

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It's only a closed session.

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It just rose everything on.

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We're going to

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call the order of the Cedar Valley Water Conservancy meeting.

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It is August 20th, 2026, and first item of business is called order.

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Tyler, all right, would you lead us in pledge?

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Sure.

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Thank you.

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We

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don't just say it.

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Well, please follow me.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

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And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,

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indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you.

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Could we impose on Mayor Nelson to give us an implication?

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Absolutely.

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So,

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spotting and reporting time, we look for the opportunity to be able to live in a

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strict community for associations and have each other and we can serve in effort and

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stewardship in which our leaders in this area strive to work together and solve problems.

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We're grateful that we can be here tonight and we're great that we can be guided and

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Thank you very much, item number two is the declaration of the distinctions and or conflicts of interest by board members.

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Are there any conflicts or distinctions that need be declared at this time?

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I don't know.

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Okay, see none.

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I don't know number three. Consider approval of minutes from the board meeting held July 16th, 2026.

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Is there any discussion?

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Motion to approve the second.

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Motion to approve the minutes for meeting of July 26th and second, all in favor?

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Aye.

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Motion passes.

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Next number four is public comment.

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Is there any members of the public would like to come forward and make a comment or stuff?

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here

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and see nothing so all right we'll go on to number five financials of the

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water conservancy district and here we go.

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here, as well as a hot box out of our equal value, that's really been worked and it's always nice to work with our local people.

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On page five, I just wanted to highlight things that we've made, the symbol and Robert, that's why the presentation that we received last month made our audit for us.

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It's for the audit not just the presentation.

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It was a big presentation, but it is for me.

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Not bad.

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Thank you all for coming.

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On page number seven, we paid, again, for the Park West Wall.

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I think that went to the board of the way.

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We touched on a brief announcement for the issues that we were having with the Park West Wall.

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Again, some of my explorations went out there into the brush.

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You didn't really have all that work.

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So you'll see that in to them.

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The only other highlight I had that I wanted to cover was our annual feed for our lease on

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our castle, and we make that to do it at the other payment that you'll see there was

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payment to leave our one-of-the-track loaders to go and help our neighbors in New York with some

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of their food clean up.

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So we wanted to show our bags of appreciation for going up there and taking their Saturday

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did anyone have any questions or any that I didn't cover?

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No, I've seen none.

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Do you want me to go through that?

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Sure, and then we'll prove it.

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Perfect. There are a lot of women to go over for a credit

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that I've never seen them on accounts.

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Again, we have seen quite a few return payments, return payment fees, we're keeping up on

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those and hopefully they'll start to go back.

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But, did anyone have any questions about the transaction?

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Okay, that is it.

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I'll entertain a motion to approve the financial expenditures.

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Okay, motion and second to approve the financials has presented all in favor.

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Aye.

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Any opposed?

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Okay.

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Thank you very much.

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Let's go.

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There's one question on some of this stuff.

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I would say approval is fine and just curious.

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I've noticed in here there was a time for someone using their buyer flow meter.

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Can I propably?

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Yes.

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That's really hard to do.

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is that something we have probably happened for?

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Yeah, I would like to say that it's not common,

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but it's happening more than it should if it happened at all.

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Right.

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So we only have a couple of those

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within the entire district,

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and we've had to process that point

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on hope of those companies that have a fire pointed.

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And so I know in the Cedar City system,

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at least before everything was digital,

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A lot of times those meters won't be wet if they're not expected to be used.

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Do we have all of those on the digital meters so that we can put what if it is being used?

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You know that's so.

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We have all of them except for water out at every place that we get, but everything else is and that's how it is.

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I'm assuming if something gets on the fire hydrant, it's like, oh, I'm going to fill this

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power drop up.

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It was like, it's a lot easier to feed it off.

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It's cheaper, too.

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We didn't tell they didn't fill this cycle.

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Now I'm good to know.

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Appreciate how you know.

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Thank you.

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Let's go over to the financials of the water industry.

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To that point.

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Okay, so page 1 of the operational budget just wanted to highlight a couple things highlighted there so you can review on insurance.

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We added in some new property, primarily the 8-mile hill's tank as well as the Cedar Island's tank. And then not exactly knowing how much this new building would be on there as well. So there's just a couple of adjustments there that will have to account for next year. And then I've got highlighted below their state grants. That was part of the project for phase one of the reuse project.

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So that was $500,000 that we paid to, or gave to paid to Cedar City and then we got the reimbursement back from the state a couple of weeks ago.

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So that's where you see that comes in.

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The other $17,000 for some meters.

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And then that's associated then on page three.

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You will come the capital side of the budget.

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You can see that reuse project there.

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We spent today 18,000 is for engineering and other design we've done so far today and then the $500,000 that went out to your city or city, you can see that's where it came out on the capital side of the budget.

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And then, just a couple other highlights.

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You can see what we've spent so far in our other projects,

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beginning with Basin-14, the Pine Valley Warrer's

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pipe project.

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Most of that has been legal fees.

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And happy with the results of both so far.

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All of the parties have dropped out of the appeal process

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with the ABLA and their no current outstanding

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lawsuits on that project.

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So we'll be forward and we'll talk about that later.

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in the meeting.

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And then we got water system 40 years.

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I think we talked about this last month.

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Just wanted to highlight with that where we didn't have

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anything budgeted that we had a well go down.

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So that was the re-structuring and swapping

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and of one well that we were able to rehab and swab and clean up

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and put back into production and actually producing

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a lot more than it was.

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and out the water levels have come up in that because of the cleaning and another one was that

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we had to re-drill a well so that's where that line items come through. Bottom line you can see

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there what we're at you know it shows that projected that we would be the negative but a 1.4 million

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but if you were to flip back and look at our text property revenue that doesn't come in until December

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and, you know, we're still pleased to receive over a million dollars there, as well as some

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of the revenues that will come in. So, anyway, just wanted to get a little snapshot. We'll

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spend a lot more time on the budget and finances that are next meeting. So, we'll be discussing

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and starting to get into our budget process there. Any questions on any of the projects that

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We're at page 4 where we're at, on our down sheet there, see the cash we have on hand

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or different accounts.

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One highlight there, about 4, by the way, is down on the cash value thing that we have

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in there, kind of our investment savings account, we initially just put in $5 million there

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so that has grown to over $100,000 in the time that it's been there, so that's fun to see.

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questions.

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Okay that's all I have.

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Okay sounds good. Thank you Paul. Number six we're

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doing discuss tax liability for parity, water, water, bond, anticipation, note, services

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23, series 23. Some of the men you want to know like that.

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Sure, I'm

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going to share a little bit because our enemy is new to our approach process

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heard

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themselves as a candidate, but we did receive them and basically the note that

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we had, like how lower interest rate than the money coming, or the money that we were

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able to gain off interest while that step in the main group.

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So the IRS required you to go through a process and you basically need to pay money

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on the

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process without,

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we initially expected that it would be around $52,000, but after the whole process, it ended up being $100,000.

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Because that wasn't paid by October 21st, there are some kinds of interest, sorry, it's none the finest, it was interest on the money that we owed.

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So they had to hold all for the money that we received

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where the balance we owed the IRS at $110,000,

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$37.00 some points.

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You can scroll down on that and show

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actual summary of the competition there.

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That's in your book to some type three.

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Yeah, so it's a, it sounds painful to pay that IRS,

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but what it really ultimately means

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is that we made money on those bond funds

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and legally you cannot do that on a non-bearing interest account for a lot of accounts.

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So we've already processed that check and it'll be going out.

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So it's roughly, it's just that it looks like it's shy of 10% of what we had earned all that money is being made back.

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just yeah, I just wanted to make you wear that. No action that's painful with

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the non-surprise.

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Yeah, I guess. Okay, any questions on item 6 and any other comment?

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Number 7,

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water conservation update discussion.

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I just wanted to highlight, I don't know if Tracy, if you've

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have any numbers yet, what we've been able to pump from a quiche of pot, I didn't ask you beforehand

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and then we put in the spot just to see if you've got an idea of what we've been able

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to supply from that recharge system or that recycled system.

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Yes, it is part of the technology model, but I can't know if it's free awesome being able

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to take all this blood water and we have captured every minute of it and put it on the north end

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of a quick spot and used it for the pivot and stuff out there and I think that we've captured

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and not out of these last week and half stormy,

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that we will probably take care of those Phyllis

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through the season, which is just,

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it's pretty awesome, you know,

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put that project together and see

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it work exactly where it has.

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And Paul and Humberley went through

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and did a presentation on from beginning

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to the time it hits, the folks going to the Phyllis

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the plumbing is a water and that whole project is working so incredible it takes some

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you're getting out of a tight jar of water you get in that much sediment and by the time

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it gets to the pumps to go into those emits is clear and it's just amazing how all this

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working and to be able to capture just terrible flood water from all the sediment and have

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useable by the time we get through that process. But I would imagine it will probably be close to

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280 water that will capture from the storage and use them. I don't really think that the farmers

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haven't turned on their well out there for over a month now and I don't think they'll turn it on.

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And we're talking about hottest time of the year. So it's just pretty awesome to be able to do this

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and have a project work exactly like the one and the two.

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So I have to get out to the word.

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Where does the seven of you go?

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Where do you flesh that to?

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The very bottom of the quiche bottle.

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On one side is a catch basin.

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From, we have two diversion points.

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We have one that's got a three foot gate by five foot.

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We lift it up and it goes down.

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Be sure to pull that up. That would be awesome.

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That part is catching stuff that comes down through.

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We have a big, 14-foot wide gate that closes off all of the co-create at the very end, down by quitch-a-pong.

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Forces that over so that we can put all of the water in the north end.

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Before when a flood has first come down through there, there's all of the debris and everything on the front of them.

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and until probably about 15 to 20 minutes of degree.

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And so we're able to do out there.

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At the moment that gate, let all of the group go by,

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raise the gate back up,

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and then we have a great big 12 foot flume out there

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that will flow 300 cubic feet per second through it,

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and a three foot gate that will just flow

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through the fiber cube per second.

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Depending on what we need there in the laser river.

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And as you can see in that laser river,

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So there's five sections, 50 feet wide and 500 feet long, and on the other side of the road, you can see that

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that pollen right there, the pond has a pump for the center of which pond, that pulls water from the middle of the lake,

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into that pond, or there is a channel that comes down and puts it in from the poultry itself.

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And so we have two ways of using that water, and we try to use every bit of it,

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but we try to be efficient to use as much down the channel,

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we know we have to take the pump on them in a little way.

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So do we get any revenue from the farmer using that water?

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They pay for the paper, they pay for the power.

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They pay for the power, are we making it?

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They actually let us use their property

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with this whole structure.

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And so we also have a recharge base out there too.

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So it's kind of a partnership that we've never done

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of this, a whole time bridge above the band there, in the last six years, we've finally

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started using that water, and it really is working, etc. So, we're pretty stoked about

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it, to see the flood water begin with just as much as you can possibly imagine to,

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through the water. By the time it gets through the end of that last piece of the lacing drill,

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that's where we're constantly up to 30, 20 power pumps. Well, that will flow about 10,000

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Yeah, I use that that water sometimes thinks on to my farm and it plugs everything off everything I own that so yeah

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That's why that's why it's so important to have this this sediment basin to actually use it

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We'll have to go in this year because of the amount of sediment that I'm planning to clean those out in the spring before spring run off

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But you know we kind of had a ship we have our water come off the mountain with snores with floods instead of snow and we've been able to actually have

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That's what we've got going on here and it's really fun to see that work as well as it has with you.

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Any other questions?

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No, the video's good. Let's watch part of the history.

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Only the people we should have when I wish that had one.

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We were talking about maybe showing the video but I don't know if we can find it.

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Rarely acceptable to use this one and so that's another great thing about it.

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Today we are at the end of the journey for waters started up as Super Dix and the last five up there, so we're out as a girl and it's been 30 days two, the flood canal, and maybe 12 hours.

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Thanks Tracy. I think it's good for that video. That's a re-charge and re-exploration.

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Or is it a random question on those concepts?

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Is it any exploration to do that to all of Cokerick?

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Not just left over, but it's not all of it

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to be something to be used in the second period.

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Yeah, I mean, for the most part,

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all of Cokerick is used all of the time.

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And your ag producers are using that all of the time.

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And there's not anything that's wasted,

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if, generally speaking, except for extremely high flows at the spring runoff or these flash

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flood events because like Paul mentioned, you put it in your system right now and it

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just plugs everything out, or rooms, crops, so fortunately, you know, for a lot of years

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We would like to cut your prizes.

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There's a waste where it's wasted, but we've been able to turn that around and utilize that for one benefit. There are still some ways where we can utilize some of those flows a little better, for sure. The north end, because there's a natural split up with Barry, the north end there. We can still capture some of that. And there are some plans looking at some reservoirs out, or storage funds out by some of the city property by the waste water treatment plant.

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where we can do some of that as well.

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That was if you talked about it.

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I'll put it back to you either way in the longer time.

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Yeah.

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And also, you know, potentially we may want to look at some other storage for

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this type of water and this flood water.

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You may not want to put this type of water into your main reservoir out there

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because of the amount of sediment load.

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I've got some pictures on here of those different sediments.

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I think that's the number one thing.

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Well, one call they have is you run this kind of water,

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I can be your Schmidt pit, one for all pit,

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still to the left and then you've defeated your whole purpose.

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Yeah, you can't get a job without just doing the cleaning process.

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Just don't do the video.

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There's just some pictures.

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It's on, don't worry about it.

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But really, I mean, you've got,

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I've done it in some, at some points when I've chased these flash floods, where it's been 90%

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so I know.

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So my point is the cleaning mark.

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Yeah.

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Where do you get into that place and that same idea of community life?

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What do you buy some more?

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Yeah.

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Because right now this is providing enough water for the one farmer out there close.

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Right.

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Right, so there's still probably potentially more water, especially good years that can be used in.

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Yeah, yeah, and to utilize that and you just need to settle it out, you need large space because you've got to get that water slowed down.

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So it becomes difficult to find a location of canyon because I really don't have the space there to do it.

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And so yeah, but I think that there are ways to better utilize it and

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the places where you have spaces out of Kuchapa and out by this version of the

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player, I know.

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If there are any questions or

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visit about the re-use and recycle program, Curtis can get

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something on that? You know Paul Disper second, I know that

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Raymond is planning on putting it. If you want to people online will be able to hear

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I

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know that Raymond Press, which is planning on putting an apron, and I know it's been a few years since we talked about doing that.

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At that point, we're very split, so we've been utilizing more of the water to go up there.

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So it doesn't at least address me because I really listen to the coastways down there.

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But that is in the process, I hope you should pull it off and get it done.

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and you appreciate the information, but I share them.

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So we talked about it just about three weeks ago.

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I did with the number and he was talking about

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the amount of issues.

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I'll close it.

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Okay, Chris.

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So we've got some progress on the reuse side.

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We've got a lot of ground money available now.

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We can finally get the majority of this project done.

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I'm going to be meeting yesterday

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for our regional water meeting.

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And we decided we're going to proceed forward

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We're on design through the water concern and sea of administration that will help convey

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the source of water that's treated and pushed back to the south for use within the sea

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of cooperation within the sea of cooperation as well.

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The idea and the design behind it is that anybody that attended the tour with us to Ash Creek

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will be that somewhere large manifold that we can expand that.

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The number of pumps that we've got is we get more fill in and more water available through

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So we can push it, push it further to the south.

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The second component is I guess,

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seriously, they got their test results back on their treatment.

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And they need to add a UV system.

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So we're going to help support them on creating an RFP

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to have a UV system engineer on that new treatment facility.

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So we can get it up to the standard where we can pretty much

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use it anywhere.

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So that's the process progress we've made.

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We're finally making big steps on the engineering side.

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that we have our laments figured out, we have our sizing figured out, spend a little bit of a process,

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we've got money available, we're going to proceed forward, and we'll start getting that water back into the area.

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Any questions there?

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Just a thank you, I'll talk to John in a later, again, he was very grateful for the uncertainty, just to squeeze the, no, I don't always have any work to jump in.

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He's got a pretty good stack, yes, he does, so thank you.

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Yeah, we'll support him anyway, we can.

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Okay, thank you. Let's go to an operating

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concern and see if the structural improvements.

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Okay, go ahead. Okay, we do have some updates on both of the wells.

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First, I ran out this morning, first thing this morning to the base at 71.

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They're down 910 feet as of this morning with their pile of hole.

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They're going to go on to our goals to hit 1,000.

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They anticipate they'll have that done by Friday.

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And after that, we'll send off all of the cuttings over the first day analysis.

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and a lot of our screening and casing is undone after that.

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So things are progressing really well.

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They're on a good day, they're doing about 50, 55 feet a day,

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typically just on average about 40 feet a day.

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Once they got down about, he said about 60 feet,

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they got into some random, some hard stuff,

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but it was going well.

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Things we, he's found some fractures,

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so it should be a good well.

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We'll just kind of wait and see how that works.

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Also we did, if I remember to do some view mapping of it,

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That means it's a better idea where we've got water bearing areas as we size and get that screening design done.

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With the BZI Innovation Park as well, we had our pre-construction meeting yesterday with USDA.

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We're going to issue the notice to proceed on Monday, so on the 24th, they're going to start moving actually today, getting their equipment over here.

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I'm going to start drilling on Monday as far as I understand.

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And did we get that road and the past everything done?

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Okay, so that's ready to go.

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We got to start hard today.

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So it's ready to go as soon as they're on site.

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So we'll keep you updated on progress on that one.

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Thanks. Well, thank you.

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That was based on 71 and BZI that everything covered?

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Yeah, that's the remaining portion was brought up again.

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All right, number nine, base 14,

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Pine Valley Waterfront by project.

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update and presentation of ground order analysis and discussion.

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Yes, so we've got Mike, he said in Pete Townsend here from Formation Environmental and they're

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going to give us a presentation on environmentally where we're at and also, you know, next steps

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in this project as we agree to the land to commitments through the EIS.

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Yes. So with that, Mike, we'll invite you to keep, let's see, did you get, there's a

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clip around there. I think everything should be ready to go. I think I turned it off,

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though, so you'll have to switch it on.

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Okay.

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And I think it's an honor to be here. My name is Mike Teetson. I'm a hydrogeologist and engineering

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geologist. And I've been working on the high-value water supply projects since March 2019. I was

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to lead on completing the groundwater resources impact assessment as part of the EIS process

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for BLM. And Pete was the person that was in charge of developing the groundwater model

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that was used for a lot of the impact analysis. So we've really been really privileged to work

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on the project and thank you for having us here. My aim tonight is to give you a presentation

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about the groundwater resources impact assessment

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and the resulting monitoring and mitigation measures

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that are planned, I'll explain those a little bit more.

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And leaning into what the next steps are

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that you can expect moving forward now

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with the project has been improved by BLM.

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So groundwater resources impact assessment typically starts

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with identifying and understanding,

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characterizing your affected environment.

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And in this case, that includes the aquifer

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and includes the groundwater uses and senior water rights.

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It includes the adjacent basins.

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It includes things like springs and wells

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and water management plans in the area.

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And then looking at the project description

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and where it intersects with that environment.

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So understanding the well-configuration, where the wells are going to go, the time period

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of operation, and how that intersects.

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And the intersection with groundwater resources assessment is often done using computer models.

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And so it's important there to understand computer models are a tool.

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They're going to be good for certain things, but they are going to leave uncertainties, so

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you want to make sure that you understand those uncertainties and that you're using the models

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appropriately to answer the questions that need to be answered. So with that said, I will

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proceed to, well, I can do this myself. Okay. This slide shows the project and the upper left-hand

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side and the southern part of the high-end value. You see, it's actually 15 dots representing 15 wells.

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That is the proposed well configuration. There is an alternative for some of those, some or all of those are moved further to the north, depending on the findings during the initial operation.

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And then that water is piped to sea or city by the loop pipeline that you see there and utilized within the green area, which is the Conservancy Districts serviced here.

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This is spelled slide shows the study area in the area of project effects.

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So when you're talking about an impacted environment or affected environment,

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both of those are important to define.

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And the study area, in this case in the middle of it,

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maybe a little bit hard to see, but in the middle of it is pine valley,

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and that's surrounded by six other basins with which pine valley would interact.

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And so that's why all of those basins are in the state area.

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And then you can see there's two lines.

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There's a green line and a purple line.

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Those are the predicted maximum extent of one foot of draw now.

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And so we've defined that because it's important to define the area of project effects

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so that you can understand what effects to look for where.

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And also so that you can understand how the project might be interacting with other pumping that is going on in the area.

469
00:42:01,750 --> 00:42:04,410
So key facts about Pine Valley Basin.

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00:42:05,310 --> 00:42:11,970
So, let's start with, it's located in what's called the Great Basin Carbonate and Illuvial Cockrofer System.

471
00:42:12,390 --> 00:42:21,990
What that means is many millions of years ago, the shallow seas on the western coast deposited a lot of carbonate.

472
00:42:21,990 --> 00:42:27,950
limestone and dull light, limestone and dull light dissolves and forms caverns, so it forms

473
00:42:27,950 --> 00:42:35,470
a regional aquifer that can communicate the cross mountain ranges. Each of those valleys

474
00:42:35,810 --> 00:42:41,850
is filled with alluvium, so that the sand, gravel, silt, and clay that's eroded from those mountains,

475
00:42:42,290 --> 00:42:48,370
and those are the primary aquifers that are used for water from which the wells draw their water,

476
00:42:48,370 --> 00:42:56,230
But because of the underlying carbonate system, those effects can be communicated into the adjacent bases.

477
00:42:56,830 --> 00:43:00,290
So that's kind of unique to this area. That's important to understand.

478
00:43:00,770 --> 00:43:09,830
When I say unique to the area, it's actually a very large area. It encompasses almost all of Nevada, portions of Arizona, California, Utah, and Idaho.

479
00:43:12,370 --> 00:43:21,830
Southwestern Oregon too. So that's the important fact there. Second important fact is Pine Valley's surface drainage is internal, right?

480
00:43:21,910 --> 00:43:33,910
It's closed basement and has a hard band or a dry lake in the middle of it. What that means is that when water falls in that basement, it is going to be either consumed by plants or

481
00:43:33,910 --> 00:43:39,170
or evaporation, or it's trying to percolate into the surface where it's the regional water

482
00:43:39,170 --> 00:43:43,350
table eventually, and only then can it move out of the basin.

483
00:43:44,310 --> 00:43:50,150
So that's important from a water budget analysis viewpoint, because all of the precipitation

484
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:57,270
that falls on the off-time valley either percolates to the subsurface, or it's used by plants.

485
00:43:58,390 --> 00:44:05,230
Second, next fact is the regional groundwater levels are very deep and what that means basically

486
00:44:05,230 --> 00:44:11,430
is that there are no plants that are directly using the regional groundwater aquifer.

487
00:44:11,670 --> 00:44:13,730
It's simply too deep, it's hundreds of deep deep.

488
00:44:15,290 --> 00:44:21,830
So that's good from the standpoint of that there aren't nearby plants that could go dry.

489
00:44:22,950 --> 00:44:33,330
And, you know, the water, once it hits the water table, keeps moving until it gets shallow enough to discharge where there are such plants or where there are springs to discharge.

490
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:46,440
Groundwater is partially developed. That's a good news, bad news, kind of a proposition. The good news is that there are water rights available for appropriation.

491
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,880
And in terms of senior water rights, they are much fewer.

492
00:44:51,340 --> 00:44:55,700
Most of them in fact are springs in this area, but there are some wells.

493
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,940
I'm early stocking domestic wells in the area.

494
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:28,280
So that's good news. The bad news is that if not for white, this is not stressed. It's a little bit harder to predict how it's going to be responding once it is stressed, once it's asked to give up more water. So there's a little bit more uncertainty that needs to be taken into consideration. And that it can some of which can only be addressed once you start pumping more water. So you need to be prepared for that and have safeguards in place for that uncertainty.

495
00:45:29,940 --> 00:45:38,120
Next, groundwater flow is impeded and slowed down by faults, volcanic rocks and what are

496
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:44,880
called salicylic, clastic rocks in the carbonate aquifers, those are simply like cooked

497
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,500
shells and sandstones that don't transmit water very well.

498
00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:58,160
And those tend to be more common on the southwest, southeast, and southern clanks, which

499
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:05,420
basically means that the drawdown in pine valleys is not going to communicate as well across

500
00:46:05,420 --> 00:46:06,240
those boundaries.

501
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:11,780
And because it doesn't draw in as much water from those, we need those boundaries to draw

502
00:46:11,780 --> 00:46:15,140
down in that area as it's potential to be a little bit greater.

503
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,060
So again, it's kind of a good news, bad news, kind of a story.

504
00:46:18,060 --> 00:46:22,380
you're less likely to affect your neighbors, but you need to deal with a little bit more

505
00:46:22,380 --> 00:46:24,300
and grow down in this other part of the town.

506
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:33,780
Next, the Mountain Springs Water Chemistry and Geology was analyzed by USGS, a report

507
00:46:33,780 --> 00:46:39,540
published in 2020, and they sampled a whole bunch of springs and wells, and one of the outcomes

508
00:46:39,540 --> 00:46:47,540
was that they found that all of the mountain springs, except for one surrounding Pine Valley,

509
00:46:47,540 --> 00:46:51,560
does not appear to be connected to the regional aqua system.

510
00:46:52,060 --> 00:46:57,980
So those springs waterfalls on mountains and it's a geologic impediment and then flows

511
00:46:57,980 --> 00:47:02,940
laterally and it comes out in a spring and the goodness is those springs can't be affected

512
00:47:02,940 --> 00:47:04,020
by regional humming.

513
00:47:04,860 --> 00:47:07,160
Wild West Springs is an exception to that.

514
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:14,500
So although USGS initially concluded that Wild West Springs is also a local spring and not

515
00:47:14,500 --> 00:47:19,380
connected to the regional aquifer. When they tested the chemistry, they found that some

516
00:47:19,380 --> 00:47:23,960
of the chemistry indicated something that we would expect to find more with deep,

517
00:47:24,180 --> 00:47:29,700
recirculating water. So as a result of that in our analysis, we conservatively concluded

518
00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:37,000
that it's 100% connected to the regional aquifer to see what the impacts might be under that kind

519
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:44,260
of conservative inclusion. So that covers the Wallace Springs chemistry as well. Other regional

520
00:47:44,260 --> 00:47:52,260
springs I've talked about shallow regional water tables occurred 60 miles plus 50 to 60 miles

521
00:47:52,260 --> 00:47:57,640
to the north of the site. And what that means is by the time that the groundwater gets shallow enough

522
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:05,820
for plants and for springs to discharge the the drawdown is dispersed over a broader area. So it's

523
00:48:05,820 --> 00:48:06,940
not as much drawdown.

524
00:48:07,580 --> 00:48:10,980
So the good news there is that those strengths

525
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,120
and those, they're called free outfights

526
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:15,980
or groundwater dependent ecosystems,

527
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:18,760
are not likely to be as effective

528
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,340
as if they were closer to the project site.

529
00:48:23,540 --> 00:48:26,360
And then finally, the L.A. Phil sediments

530
00:48:27,260 --> 00:48:29,200
include buried leg deposits.

531
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,840
So in the geologic past, I'm Valley

532
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,420
was periodically occupied by legs,

533
00:48:34,420 --> 00:48:39,840
like composite clays, clays when they're dewatered,

534
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:41,980
they can compress, right?

535
00:48:42,340 --> 00:48:44,420
So, and when the water pressure in the clays

536
00:48:44,420 --> 00:48:49,660
gets less than the overline sediment pressure,

537
00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:53,140
and that sediment can push the clays down,

538
00:48:53,340 --> 00:48:54,820
and they can compress, and that's happened

539
00:48:54,820 --> 00:48:57,400
in the barrel enterprise area, and in Cedar Valley,

540
00:48:57,720 --> 00:48:59,440
where you've seen some subsidence.

541
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:02,480
So there is no potential for subsidence in time,

542
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,880
valley as well, and that needs to be considered.

543
00:49:07,980 --> 00:49:11,520
So I'm going to talk a little bit about the effects and impact analysis.

544
00:49:14,420 --> 00:49:24,520
So this slide shows a series of pains over time that simulate the drawdown that is associated

545
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:26,460
with pumping from the octave.

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00:49:26,460 --> 00:49:35,060
So in the upper left hand pane, it is time zero that's before any company begins and then

547
00:49:35,060 --> 00:49:42,300
each pane gets a little bit later and the different color bands show the amount of drawdown

548
00:49:42,300 --> 00:49:50,140
that's predicted by the model to a curb. What's simulated here and what we simulated in the model

549
00:49:50,140 --> 00:49:57,540
was 50 years of project coming, which includes the original 30 year right-of-way grant

550
00:49:57,540 --> 00:50:06,340
in 120 years and then 400 years of recovery. So the reason for approaching it that way is

551
00:50:06,340 --> 00:50:11,920
because in groundwater resources impact assessment you have to set some reasonable boundaries

552
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:18,720
around what you analyze. And for most projects in my experience that's about 30 to 50 years and in

553
00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:27,160
case, that coincides with the amount of pumping or the duration of pumping that is authorized

554
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:27,980
underneath it.

555
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,900
So, that's a construct of the analysis.

556
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:37,520
It does not mean that the project goes full bore for 50 years and then suddenly you have

557
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:38,580
no wires to fly.

558
00:50:38,940 --> 00:50:47,880
I think the district is constantly evaluating and so this is simply a construct of how

559
00:50:47,880 --> 00:51:00,280
the impacts are analyzed. The 400 years of recovery are there because the basin is isolated

560
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:07,320
and recharged is relatively slow to recover the groundwater loans. And that means that there's

561
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:12,720
going to be residual drawdown for a long period of time. And so we wanted to simulate that for a long

562
00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:17,660
period of time to understand what it does, kind of, you know, in the interest of

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00:51:17,660 --> 00:51:24,620
full disclosure, you can expect a lot of the raw down in high-mally, a lot less

564
00:51:24,620 --> 00:51:31,580
or more diffused raw down in surrounding basins, and you can expect that to

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00:51:31,580 --> 00:51:38,860
persist for a long period of time, and to and to progress laterally very slowly.

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00:51:38,860 --> 00:51:44,140
So in terms of the amounts, what you see is that at the 50-year period, which is the second

567
00:51:44,140 --> 00:51:49,500
from the right pane, you see the maximum amount of drawdown in pine valley, in this case,

568
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:50,840
with this welcome configuration.

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00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:57,400
So the pine valley, that's about 330 feet of drawdown, out of a well that might have between

570
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,440
500 and 1,000 feet of screen interval.

571
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:08,720
And then after that time, the drawdown in pine valley begins to recover, but the drawdown

572
00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:13,640
continues to propagate into the surrounding areas so that what you can see there is that

573
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:20,300
sort of a blue flag on the upper right-hand corner of your draw-down area that is continuing

574
00:52:20,300 --> 00:52:27,020
to progress there for about 200 years and then it persists. While in Pye Valley, the

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00:52:27,020 --> 00:52:35,340
groundwater draw-down has recovered between 10-50 feet of its original groundwater levels.

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00:52:35,340 --> 00:52:42,200
Now, what's important to understand also with these figures is that they simulate where

577
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:43,520
they present and draw down.

578
00:52:44,020 --> 00:52:44,120
Okay?

579
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:49,820
So that's the difference between the original pre- pumping groundwater level and the groundwater

580
00:52:49,820 --> 00:52:52,360
level under pumping or recovery conditions.

581
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:56,560
It does not indicate capture or groundwater flow.

582
00:52:56,860 --> 00:53:00,860
So that's important to understand, and I'll show you that in the next slide.

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00:53:02,100 --> 00:53:11,200
So, this slide shows a section along the predominant path of groundwater flow, and it is located

584
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:19,720
with north toward the right, okay, so on the upper left hand is where pine valley is, and you

585
00:53:19,720 --> 00:53:25,480
can see the blue dots, those are the wells, and then the section proceeds northward through the

586
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:31,380
enterprise area into Pine Valley across the northern part of Walla to the end

587
00:53:31,380 --> 00:53:41,380
into Tulee Valley over a distance of about 125 miles. And the three lines, so

588
00:53:41,380 --> 00:53:44,960
that the upper-most line is the topography. And there's a little bit of

589
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:50,320
vertical exaggeration there, but that's the ground surface. And then there's

590
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,320
three lines under that representing the water table at different times.

591
00:53:54,320 --> 00:54:02,080
And so, just kind of in a gross fashion what you see is that the groundwater table is highest

592
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:08,460
in a mound that sits at the intersection between barrel enterprise and high depth.

593
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:12,320
So that's the high point of the regional groundwater flow system.

594
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:19,340
And toward the north it drops off and groundwater flows in the direction of decreasing elevation

595
00:54:19,340 --> 00:54:21,020
from high pressure to low pressure.

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00:54:21,020 --> 00:54:28,000
and so you can see the groundwater flow is to the north and it flattens out and gets close to the

597
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:34,720
groundwater close to the land surface once you get up into the middle and northern part of Tulee Valley.

598
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:42,540
So the green line is the groundwater table before any pumping occurs.

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00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:49,680
Then the blue line is the groundwater table after 50 years of pumping

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00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:56,580
And the biggest thing there that stands out is in that mound that is in other pine

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00:54:56,580 --> 00:54:56,980
valley.

602
00:54:57,220 --> 00:55:00,840
You see a bite that's taken on it, you see a chunk that's taken on it.

603
00:55:01,100 --> 00:55:06,280
That's your well field and that's the maximum amount of draw down that occurs in that

604
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:06,840
well field.

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00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:12,160
So you can see that the groundwater flow is still to the north and that by the time you

606
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:20,620
get from between the distance of maybe 15 miles to 30 miles along the transect, or if you

607
00:55:20,620 --> 00:55:26,340
look very hard, maybe 10 miles to 30 miles, it becomes difficult to distinguish the three

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00:55:26,340 --> 00:55:30,460
lines. That means there's not much drawdown outside of that area.

609
00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:48,000
These sets of tiles are the same as the first set that we looked at, except they show

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00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:49,560
the cumulative drawdown.

611
00:55:49,780 --> 00:55:57,860
So what cumulative drawdown is the drawdown from the project and the drawdown from other

612
00:55:57,860 --> 00:56:04,040
wells that are in the site vicinity. In this case, all those are in Stain Valley. There's a few

613
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:09,720
in the northern barrel enterprise area that are included in the study. And then there's

614
00:56:10,610 --> 00:56:18,260
one well that's planned in the southern, severe, kind of the southwest of your lake.

615
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:26,320
And what you can see is that there is a water drawdown in the area that it can be expected to occur

616
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:30,160
because of the existing pumping, even in the absence of a project.

617
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:38,440
Together with the project, the project starts to pop into view after about 50 years of,

618
00:56:38,580 --> 00:56:45,960
you know, 25 years of pumping, and then the effect increases for a period of time and

619
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:46,920
then disperses.

620
00:56:48,740 --> 00:56:55,000
You'd have to look closely at this, but I'm going to explain to you that the interaction

621
00:56:55,000 --> 00:57:03,900
between the non-project pumping and the project pumping occurs in areas where there's not predicted to be very much drawdown.

622
00:57:04,380 --> 00:57:09,980
In other words, most of the drawdown in pine valley will occur as a result of pumping in pine valley.

623
00:57:10,240 --> 00:57:14,820
Pumping in snake valley produces minimal drawdown in pine valley.

624
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:24,260
I see pumping in snake valley produces minimal drawdown in pine valley and vice versa pumping in pine valley produces minimal drawdown in snake valley.

625
00:57:24,260 --> 00:57:29,580
So while there is some what would be called cumulative drawdown in the northern part of the

626
00:57:29,580 --> 00:57:36,040
Merrill enterprise area that might be significant in snake valley that is not the case.

627
00:57:39,410 --> 00:57:45,990
So on overview of the groundwater impacts, first the figure on the right is just another

628
00:57:45,990 --> 00:57:52,630
look at how the drawdown from the project needs color indicates the extent of one foot or more

629
00:57:52,630 --> 00:57:55,430
of drawdown after a specific period of time.

630
00:57:55,430 --> 00:57:59,150
So you can see how it progresses slowly over many years.

631
00:57:59,430 --> 00:58:04,610
Our most color ban year is 200 years after the project stops pumping.

632
00:58:05,670 --> 00:58:11,610
So we see drawdown and water budget changes in the modeling results

633
00:58:11,610 --> 00:58:17,130
and we'll expect them reasonably in the basin itself in Pine Valley

634
00:58:17,130 --> 00:58:19,530
as well as in the six surrounding basins.

635
00:58:19,670 --> 00:58:23,050
That's just an effect that you see when you start pulling water out

636
00:58:23,050 --> 00:58:24,410
you affect the water budget.

637
00:58:24,410 --> 00:58:30,550
you have to, right, you're taking water that used to go somewhere else and you have to have

638
00:58:30,550 --> 00:58:37,570
drawdown because in order to move water to a well that moves from high to low, the water levels have

639
00:58:37,570 --> 00:58:44,570
to go down. The question is, is it significant? Does it hurt the environment or does it potentially

640
00:58:44,570 --> 00:58:51,410
do harm to senior water rights? So, the drawdown will propagate slowly and would be limited outside

641
00:58:51,410 --> 00:58:56,490
of Pine Valley, the potentially significant impact that we found is that there will be

642
00:58:56,490 --> 00:59:02,070
some well-interference drawdown impacts to senior water rights.

643
00:59:02,750 --> 00:59:09,290
So what that means is we set a threshold of 15 feet of drawdown within 50 years, and

644
00:59:09,290 --> 00:59:19,150
that's based on the reasonable lifespan of a well, and based on other findings by the UWRI,

645
00:59:19,150 --> 00:59:22,770
what is to what constitutes significant interference.

646
00:59:22,950 --> 00:59:25,850
At what point is the well-ealed potentially diminished

647
00:59:25,850 --> 00:59:28,490
or does it become significantly more expensive

648
00:59:28,490 --> 00:59:30,270
to solve those other questions?

649
00:59:31,050 --> 00:59:34,210
And what we find is that there are wells in pine valley

650
00:59:35,050 --> 00:59:39,330
that will experience a significant drawdown.

651
00:59:39,690 --> 00:59:41,330
Some of them will probably go dry.

652
00:59:42,230 --> 00:59:44,430
And that needs to be mitigated

653
00:59:44,430 --> 00:59:47,890
and the district is proposing to implement

654
00:59:47,890 --> 00:59:50,690
and a well-met monitoring and mitigation program

655
00:59:50,690 --> 00:59:51,630
for those wells.

656
00:59:52,490 --> 00:59:54,190
So I don't remember the exact number,

657
00:59:54,310 --> 00:59:56,870
I think under the Southern Well Field Configuration,

658
00:59:56,870 --> 00:59:58,210
I think it's about six wells,

659
00:59:58,970 --> 00:59:59,970
under the north.

660
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,780
Whether in well-feeled community configuration, it's about twice that. Roughly, so don't hold me to that. I have to go back to the reports. And there are a couple of wells in the very northernmost part of the Gural Enterprise area that would experience significant cumulative drawdown, or could experience cumulative drawdown. And again, this is a common thing with these kinds of projects and these kinds of well-knit monitoring and mitigation programs to make calls whole by

661
01:00:29,780 --> 01:00:35,900
either giving them a water supply or deepening their wells or replacing their wells is a common

662
01:00:35,900 --> 01:00:37,080
way to deal with this.

663
01:00:40,460 --> 01:00:45,880
Next, while this brings discharge depletion, it is, again, remember that

664
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:53,180
we assume that it's 100% connected and the data indicate that's not the case. So it's a conservative

665
01:00:53,180 --> 01:01:01,320
assumption and the model shows that the worst case depletion would be about 14% of the flow.

666
01:01:02,460 --> 01:01:09,200
is it going to be 14.0% or is it going to be higher than that or lower than that?

667
01:01:09,980 --> 01:01:16,940
Honestly, this is a fairly rough number, but it indicates roughly that you can expect

668
01:01:16,940 --> 01:01:24,080
potentially to see some observable amount of depletion that might be a concern.

669
01:01:25,100 --> 01:01:31,420
It's also possible that we will see no completion, so we're talking about a potential impact

670
01:01:31,420 --> 01:01:33,080
that needs to be accounted for.

671
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:44,800
Potential subsidence in Pine Valley, the lake sediments are more prominent in the northern

672
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:51,720
part of the valley, so that's where more susceptibility to subsidence is likely to be centered

673
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:54,540
and draw down in that area will be less.

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01:01:55,180 --> 01:01:58,240
Nevertheless, the intersection between leads us

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01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,900
to the conclusion based on observations and other basins

676
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:05,240
that it's not unreasonable to expect,

677
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:09,020
or there is the potential for significance of science

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01:02:09,020 --> 01:02:12,780
that could be at a level where it could start

679
01:02:12,780 --> 01:02:13,960
to damage infrastructure.

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01:02:15,060 --> 01:02:17,680
The good news is there's not much infrastructure there

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01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:18,580
to damage.

682
01:02:18,580 --> 01:02:22,800
So, from mitigation viewpoint also, that's managing.

683
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:29,500
Potentially not significant at that's the precion of discharge from regional springs

684
01:02:29,500 --> 01:02:31,980
in Stakeham-Touli valleys.

685
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:40,100
There is some model predicted depletion, but it's a very low percentage, and it's below the

686
01:02:40,100 --> 01:02:48,180
percentage that would be observable, measurable or observable at the springs.

687
01:02:48,180 --> 01:02:50,840
So, in our opinion, it's less than significant.

688
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:54,880
The drawdown effect is reattifites in Tuley Valley

689
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:58,380
and south of severe lake, fall under similar category.

690
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:01,140
Again, by the time the drawdown gets that far,

691
01:03:01,780 --> 01:03:02,980
the impacts are dispersed.

692
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:07,160
And then finally, altered interface and flow,

693
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:09,420
it's inevitable that it would occur

694
01:03:09,420 --> 01:03:11,520
whenever you pump water out of a system,

695
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:13,380
but it's less than significant.

696
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:15,440
It's not going to take water away,

697
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:19,960
for example, from barrel enterprise to the point where they can't implement their

698
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:21,240
gravel or management plan.

699
01:03:24,340 --> 01:03:27,460
So in order to deal with both the uncertainty and

700
01:03:27,460 --> 01:03:34,120
mitigation, these are the anti-potential impacts. We've adopted a monitoring and

701
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:40,760
mitigation program in the EIS that addresses that. And this just shows some of the

702
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:46,340
show is an overview of the steps in developing the program and the nature of the

703
01:03:46,340 --> 01:03:54,780
program. So, there's two different drivers for monitoring and mitigation. And one is the

704
01:03:54,780 --> 01:04:00,120
NEPA monitoring and mitigation programs, so that's based on the traditional view of

705
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:05,500
the analyzed environmental impacts. You mitigate the monitoring and you mitigate for impacts

706
01:04:05,500 --> 01:04:13,040
to either decrease or eliminate them. And then the second is the well field adaptive management

707
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:17,740
program where the water rights were from the state engineer contains a

708
01:04:17,740 --> 01:04:23,400
stipulation that there be monitoring to assess whether or not the operation of

709
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:28,440
the basin remains within safe field and if it does not then go to a Dr.

710
01:04:28,700 --> 01:04:32,640
groundwater management plan and over time her tailed pumping to a sure

711
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:37,460
restoration of safe field. So in terms of what that means for the steps to be

712
01:04:37,460 --> 01:04:42,680
implemented at the top you see that there is a planet needs to be developed. That's

713
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:48,260
first on the agenda. Second on the agenda is to on the left hand side on

714
01:04:48,260 --> 01:04:55,740
Geneva to develop monitoring networks. And that would, several areas that would

715
01:04:55,740 --> 01:05:01,020
occur and I'll show you down in the next slide. To conduct baseline monitoring so

716
01:05:01,020 --> 01:05:04,640
that you collect information before the project is implemented that you can

717
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:09,580
come here to project impacts too. And then to implement an operational monitoring

718
01:05:09,580 --> 01:05:14,940
program that's tied to various different thresholds and triggers that escalate

719
01:05:14,940 --> 01:05:19,960
actions if there's a significant impact or potential for significant impacts

720
01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:25,380
is bound to occur. So that and that's set up in kind of a tiered fashion to

721
01:05:25,380 --> 01:05:29,720
where first you know sort of like green light yellow light red light where

722
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:34,320
green light is okay everything's happening as we predicted yellow light is okay it's

723
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:38,800
not quite happening as we predicted let's slow down and figure this out and then

724
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,260
and red light is, okay, this could cause a problem.

725
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:42,820
We need to do something about it.

726
01:05:42,900 --> 01:05:45,240
And so those are the three tiers of actions

727
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:47,860
that are set up for the well field

728
01:05:47,860 --> 01:05:49,300
that the management program

729
01:05:49,300 --> 01:05:52,300
that occurs after the project is implemented.

730
01:05:53,180 --> 01:05:55,000
And it starts with startup monitoring

731
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:58,080
and updating the predictions.

732
01:05:58,460 --> 01:06:01,780
So when you put it in your first three or six wells,

733
01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:04,360
under data monitor for stress,

734
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:06,000
we're gonna get a lot smarter

735
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:12,200
in a hurry about how the aquifer behaves. And so we'll see if the rest of the wells need

736
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:18,480
to be doomed for the moment. So that's the intention there. And then during operation there

737
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:25,620
is also, there's a well-field, near-field, and far-field wells. And if everything proceeds

738
01:06:25,620 --> 01:06:31,760
in the green tone, nothing needs to happen. If something starts to raise a concern,

739
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:40,480
Then at that point there's triggers and thresholds for the district to do things like well can we move pumping from one well to another?

740
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:53,080
Can we seasonally adjust our pumping or worst case do we need to curtail our pumping so that we can avoid getting into a situation where we're no longer in safe fuel?

741
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:59,700
And then ultimately, if there's a finding that we're not in safe field, then the state

742
01:06:59,700 --> 01:07:02,580
engineer wouldn't oppose a groundwater management plan.

743
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:10,120
And then the different monitoring areas, I'll go through these quickly because I think

744
01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:14,540
what we're doing over time, the first is groundwater level monitoring.

745
01:07:15,060 --> 01:07:20,520
We've got a network that we've identified 32 target monitoring wells, seven of those

746
01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:24,120
are new, 25 are existing and would be retrofitted.

747
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:29,000
There are all wells in the area that we think will be very useful to us, they can really

748
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:34,140
no longer be used for supply, and we would collect data continuously from those wells

749
01:07:34,140 --> 01:07:41,100
using pressure sensors, which is called transducers, or and then coupled with annual measurements

750
01:07:41,100 --> 01:07:44,260
where our services tag with a well center.

751
01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:52,000
For spring flow depletion monitoring, we've identified 14 springs, Y-14.

752
01:07:52,800 --> 01:08:00,340
Why waste frames? Definitely. We anticipate that based on all the available data that we're

753
01:08:00,340 --> 01:08:07,880
not going to see impacts to the other 13 springs, but that's hard to crew conclusively because

754
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:15,960
you need to pump an aquifer really hard and long before you would see any impact to over

755
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:21,760
lines, springs and values. So, we don't think that's going to occur, but as a

756
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:25,620
development, suspenders approach, there's a monitoring program that's been agreed

757
01:08:25,620 --> 01:08:32,100
to with PLM, that includes 14 springs. At each of those springs, we would do

758
01:08:32,100 --> 01:08:36,100
various different things. So, it'd be a combination of things depending on which

759
01:08:36,100 --> 01:08:41,620
string, but they include pizometers, which are like smaller tubes, like small

760
01:08:41,620 --> 01:08:47,240
wells that are shallow just solely for the purpose of groundwater level measurement, level sensors

761
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:54,680
and spring pools, flow meters, rain gauges, ET, that's a valuable transpiration, and that's

762
01:08:55,540 --> 01:09:02,940
the water that a plant uses, right? So I told you precipitation either gets used by plants,

763
01:09:02,980 --> 01:09:08,040
it goes back to the atmosphere or it evaporates from the surface. There are ways that you can evaluate

764
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:17,120
that from satellite data and so that's the ET component and or photo values. So for things like

765
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:21,600
sprints, photo points are great to take picture in the same direction every year and you see

766
01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:28,620
what the changes are. And so data there also is collected continually as well as annually. ET

767
01:09:28,620 --> 01:09:34,720
depletion, that's the free out of fights or the areas where the groundwater is shallow enough to

768
01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:36,540
where plants could depend on it.

769
01:09:36,780 --> 01:09:39,920
We proposed to adopt two reference plots

770
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:43,500
on a two-lay valley and one south of severe lake.

771
01:09:44,300 --> 01:09:47,460
And so there, we would also measure the ET

772
01:09:47,460 --> 01:09:48,680
from satellite data.

773
01:09:50,260 --> 01:09:53,240
We would do photo points, we would measure soil moisture

774
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,460
over time, and we would put in rain gauges.

775
01:09:55,820 --> 01:09:58,720
And again, that's continuous and annual.

776
01:09:59,300 --> 01:10:03,460
And then some scientists monitoring that is done

777
01:10:03,460 --> 01:10:06,340
with the installation of survey points basically.

778
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:10,720
So, since I had monuments, there's some standard procedures

779
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:11,680
for all of those.

780
01:10:11,900 --> 01:10:12,780
This is pretty simple.

781
01:10:13,020 --> 01:10:15,680
Usually can be done with a hand auger and a piece of rebar

782
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:19,040
or it's going to put in like a Christy box

783
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:20,620
or some kind of protected cover.

784
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:23,240
And those are survey annually.

785
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:25,660
And again, for all of those, there are triggers

786
01:10:25,660 --> 01:10:29,360
for escalation or, you know, re-light yellow light red light.

787
01:10:30,100 --> 01:10:36,200
And finally, next step, next on the agenda for the district, we understand is engineering

788
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:42,600
design requests for qualifications and requests for proposals for engineering design.

789
01:10:43,460 --> 01:10:49,620
And so the key factors there from the groundwater resource impact assessment side is to make

790
01:10:49,620 --> 01:10:54,420
sure that that includes the adaptive management program elements, but that's considered

791
01:10:54,420 --> 01:11:04,100
in how the project design and phasing proceeds and address responded questions regarding

792
01:11:04,100 --> 01:11:09,380
those requirements and then other potential support that the district may need.

793
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:17,300
There's the development of the monitoring mitigation and development management plans, then

794
01:11:17,300 --> 01:11:19,160
and the development of the monitoring networks,

795
01:11:19,440 --> 01:11:24,020
and what's important for them, we feel,

796
01:11:24,380 --> 01:11:28,460
and I managed to grow our sustainability agency

797
01:11:28,460 --> 01:11:31,240
in a rural area, and one of the things that's top of our agenda

798
01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:32,780
is we need to build a local capacity.

799
01:11:33,660 --> 01:11:36,780
You can't keep everything done by remote consultants,

800
01:11:37,060 --> 01:11:37,720
and we get that.

801
01:11:38,300 --> 01:11:41,600
So we want to engage with local resources,

802
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:44,020
and knowledge transfer, and getting them trained,

803
01:11:44,220 --> 01:11:46,260
and doing the work so that we don't have to come out,

804
01:11:46,260 --> 01:11:52,880
do it for you all the time and I think there's a lot of capacity locally to do that and then academic

805
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:59,100
partnerships I think would be a good solution for that as well and are really a kind of multi-faceted

806
01:11:59,100 --> 01:12:05,900
solution and for the baseline monitoring it's the same two things so that's that's all I have for you

807
01:12:05,900 --> 01:12:12,860
most there's any questions no thank you appreciate your time all the information is there any any

808
01:12:12,860 --> 01:12:13,800
Any questions on the board?

809
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:19,620
Any other questions? Plenty of anybody? Partification?

810
01:12:20,620 --> 01:12:27,100
I have a question. How long do we plan on pump-a-water? 50 years and turn it off?

811
01:12:29,540 --> 01:12:36,800
No, no. The analysis, and I'm going to be Mike, you can explain that, about the analysis in the 50 years.

812
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:54,120
So that is the question, right, and so the 50 years is a construct of the analysis, and it's different from how the district might ultimately choose to manage its water supply.

813
01:12:54,720 --> 01:13:02,280
You have to approve a project for a certain finite amount of time, so you've got the approval for the first 50 years.

814
01:13:02,280 --> 01:13:11,800
And during that time you will be gathering data as to the nature of the aquifer and what it can sustain in the longer term.

815
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:16,220
Although that would need to be evaluated and approved in a separate new fashion.

816
01:13:16,740 --> 01:13:22,140
At the same time your water supply and demand in the valley may change.

817
01:13:22,480 --> 01:13:25,740
So there's a number of things that you can't fully predict now.

818
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:31,560
But we have to start somewhere in terms of a construct for the analysis.

819
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:38,020
So we're hoping that the second coming, coming before 50 years, yeah, here we go.

820
01:13:38,500 --> 01:13:40,320
It's not in the analysis, good, yeah.

821
01:13:41,460 --> 01:13:48,460
Well, I can tell you from my conversations about this project, that some of the questions

822
01:13:48,460 --> 01:13:56,680
that that brings up are already being considered in Annabress, and the analysis of the base

823
01:13:56,680 --> 01:14:00,980
and response really gives us, I mean maybe we've raised this.

824
01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:09,340
Stimulate judgment for the water right says that the party does agree as to what the

825
01:14:09,340 --> 01:14:17,820
safety is and the project will allow us to figure that out and the safety yield could

826
01:14:17,820 --> 01:14:24,780
be more than 15,000 acre feet per year or it could be less than 18 and 15,000 feet per

827
01:14:24,780 --> 01:14:30,460
here but you're going to figure it out and the only way you can figure it out is to stress

828
01:14:30,460 --> 01:14:30,880
the offer.

829
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:41,240
So the like the time, I guess, is to be determined by how much we stress the

830
01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:41,440
offer.

831
01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:51,320
This action approves the project for a 50 year period because you have to approve

832
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:59,900
it for a certain period. Right. And any extraction beyond 50 years would

833
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,780
Part of a separate action proposed by the district and then evaluated underneath of prior to approval by the, you know, and then somehow proposed, well, 50 years, why don't you analyze 200 years? Why don't you analyze 2000 years? And you can see from that that the further out that you go, you have to start making all kinds of ridiculous assumptions as to what the conditions and what can be easily

834
01:15:31,380 --> 01:15:37,100
And this country's only been around for 250 years, and the way it's going, I don't

835
01:15:37,100 --> 01:15:41,480
know how many people are heard here whether it will be around for another 200, it's not

836
01:15:41,480 --> 01:15:42,680
willing and willing, right?

837
01:15:43,580 --> 01:15:52,500
But the point being that you have to set some kind of reasonable cause-truck in order to put

838
01:15:52,500 --> 01:15:58,920
boundaries around understanding the impacts and understanding what the reasonable length of the

839
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:03,760
right away granted us. And based on what we've done so far, what the VLM

840
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:05,460
unjustified is 50 years.

841
01:16:08,330 --> 01:16:10,770
Hopefully not. I think that justifies the financial

842
01:16:11,370 --> 01:16:18,530
investment in the project too. So that's good enough for me. Thank you very

843
01:16:18,530 --> 01:16:22,690
much. Appreciate it. Thanks, Mike. I appreciate Mike and Pete and all their work

844
01:16:22,690 --> 01:16:29,490
and also for coming out here. They've made this on this project and really

845
01:16:29,490 --> 01:16:38,210
facilitated the structure, the bones, and the meat for the entire EIS, so everything that

846
01:16:38,210 --> 01:16:43,210
was, you know, permanent analyzed, there was a lot of, I would say, lesser things. I mean,

847
01:16:43,590 --> 01:16:52,050
everything is important, as far as what was analyzed, but when you consider water and the water is

848
01:16:52,050 --> 01:16:57,070
the life for everything and everything that is out there that is the major component for this

849
01:16:57,070 --> 01:17:04,470
for this analysis and this study in EIS and so appreciate all that are working that they did for that and also for coming out here and

850
01:17:05,150 --> 01:17:07,570
helping us understand a little bit more in detail

851
01:17:08,750 --> 01:17:10,590
in EIS. So thanks again.

852
01:17:11,790 --> 01:17:17,010
Very informative. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, I feel privileged. Thank you. Thank you.

853
01:17:18,330 --> 01:17:26,430
So we need to look at a resolution adopting a progressive design bill procurement procedures for the Pine Valley Water Supply Project and off-resign two-stage

854
01:17:29,650 --> 01:17:37,170
this is an opportunity we're not saying that we would do this but this is

855
01:17:37,170 --> 01:17:43,890
progressing designed to allow you to form a team becomes more efficient we're

856
01:17:43,890 --> 01:17:48,170
not saying that this will be the process of the district of all those we

857
01:17:48,170 --> 01:17:55,310
get further into it we swap the option and then we need to have that in or we

858
01:17:55,310 --> 01:17:59,010
We need to have that given on our, you know, our bag of account,

859
01:17:59,390 --> 01:18:03,030
opportunity options, options, and so if we pass that,

860
01:18:03,370 --> 01:18:04,890
we don't use it a big deal.

861
01:18:05,170 --> 01:18:07,570
If you need it, it's useful.

862
01:18:07,890 --> 01:18:10,590
So, just recommend that everyone pass the resolution,

863
01:18:10,910 --> 01:18:13,790
and then we'll see where we go in real.

864
01:18:14,150 --> 01:18:17,550
And then you can clearly get that point of deciding which tool

865
01:18:17,550 --> 01:18:18,750
to use the board skill.

866
01:18:19,070 --> 01:18:20,610
Oh, we have board for users that choice.

867
01:18:20,990 --> 01:18:21,090
Yeah.

868
01:18:21,090 --> 01:18:28,030
Yes, it's just it's got to be in your purchasing policy, so it makes you want to sense

869
01:18:28,030 --> 01:18:28,690
sometimes.

870
01:18:30,730 --> 01:18:35,070
Mr. B resolution number 2026-8-20.

871
01:18:35,730 --> 01:18:36,650
Motion approved.

872
01:18:38,290 --> 01:18:39,650
Motion approved.

873
01:18:40,150 --> 01:18:43,470
The resolution number 2026-8-20.

874
01:18:43,950 --> 01:18:46,930
The resolution of the board of directors of Cedar Valley Water Conservancy,

875
01:18:46,930 --> 01:18:48,290
the adoptive progressive design bill,

876
01:18:48,430 --> 01:18:50,650
procurement procedures for the Klein Valley Works

877
01:18:50,650 --> 01:18:54,270
Plan project, and authorizing a two-stage solicitation

878
01:18:54,270 --> 01:18:56,910
for design billed services on the favor.

879
01:18:57,350 --> 01:18:57,950
I have that.

880
01:18:58,330 --> 01:18:58,710
Any opposed?

881
01:19:00,090 --> 01:19:02,070
Okay, we have that adopted.

882
01:19:03,770 --> 01:19:07,110
Let's go on to number 10, General Manager report.

883
01:19:08,770 --> 01:19:11,790
I think I've covered everything throughout the

884
01:19:16,550 --> 01:19:17,250
Okay,

885
01:19:24,390 --> 01:19:32,830
we will go back to the motion and a second of the aforementioned resolution of the 2026-8-20 to a roll call vote.

886
01:19:32,830 --> 01:19:49,390
All right, now we'll go back to General Manager's report, I still think I haven't thought

887
01:19:49,390 --> 01:19:55,650
of anything since that. Public education operation, I'd like to go over there.

888
01:19:59,260 --> 01:20:00,620
Okay, I hear

889
01:20:00,620 --> 01:20:04,440
There's nothing so, board members report anything to report by the board members.

890
01:20:06,810 --> 01:20:09,550
Hearing none, we'll go to the engineering report.

891
01:20:10,310 --> 01:20:10,750
Nothing.

892
01:20:11,990 --> 01:20:12,210
Man.

893
01:20:12,570 --> 01:20:13,230
I got a bunch of.

894
01:20:13,290 --> 01:20:14,010
I got a bunch of.

895
01:20:14,310 --> 01:20:14,490
No.

896
01:20:14,490 --> 01:20:15,770
The theater city had trouble with the water.

897
01:20:15,930 --> 01:20:16,510
Did we help them out?

898
01:20:18,050 --> 01:20:18,270
We.

899
01:20:18,370 --> 01:20:19,250
Not connected yet.

900
01:20:20,570 --> 01:20:21,130
We did.

901
01:20:21,250 --> 01:20:21,350
We did.

902
01:20:21,350 --> 01:20:22,070
Bucket across the road.

903
01:20:22,790 --> 01:20:23,910
As much as we can.

904
01:20:24,130 --> 01:20:24,210
We.

905
01:20:24,310 --> 01:20:25,930
We supplied our service right here.

906
01:20:26,790 --> 01:20:26,870
Okay.

907
01:20:27,310 --> 01:20:28,250
Can we get it?

908
01:20:28,670 --> 01:20:29,030
Yeah.

909
01:20:29,090 --> 01:20:29,190
What.

910
01:20:29,370 --> 01:20:30,030
We still have one.

911
01:20:30,170 --> 01:20:30,310
Yeah.

912
01:20:30,310 --> 01:20:37,530
Okay, I was just curious, the kids were saying they cut one of them on, or whatever.

913
01:20:38,450 --> 01:20:46,550
You want to just put your head to the pump, and do the backup, or pump it, and see it in a few minutes.

914
01:20:47,990 --> 01:20:53,230
Maybe if you want to, you can provide an update on where we're at in the inter-connection between systems.

915
01:20:53,930 --> 01:20:55,390
It's not happening fast enough.

916
01:20:55,390 --> 01:21:01,130
It's a discussion history, so like it's still three years away, and I didn't like that.

917
01:21:05,150 --> 01:21:07,850
You got things resolved though if you were around.

918
01:21:08,510 --> 01:21:13,190
I just got two things happening back to back, only one happened, not a big deal.

919
01:21:13,970 --> 01:21:19,330
Two years, large precinct wells, and then the whole truncline from the crutch tunnel filled

920
01:21:37,250 --> 01:21:37,810
Okay,

921
01:21:41,180 --> 01:21:50,420
our next meeting is scheduled for September 17th we make a conflict with that date so unless something comes up we may be

922
01:21:50,420 --> 01:22:03,420
canceling that meeting. So stand by and we'll let you know if it's something important comes up we may have to re-skiddle this a special meeting but right now we'd like to cancel September 7th or 7th.

923
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:04,300
Okay.

924
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:09,780
So do we need a close session?

925
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:11,220
Do we need a close session or not?

926
01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:12,240
Yes.

927
01:22:13,120 --> 01:22:13,240
Okay.

928
01:22:13,940 --> 01:22:15,960
I'll turn it entertain a motion to go in a close session.

929
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:21,680
one minute. One minute or closer. Oh yeah. I've heard that before.

930
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:25,820
Most of the second to close

931
01:22:25,820 --> 01:22:29,220
our regular meeting going to close session. We'll do roll call votes. Paul.

932
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:33,300
Hey, I say, I

933
01:22:48,160 --> 01:22:52,000
All right, we're going to put a section on.

934
01:23:35,120 --> 01:23:36,300
Hey, we were paying attention.

935
01:23:36,580 --> 01:23:37,380
Yes, you were.

936
01:23:38,440 --> 01:23:39,520
I can do it like that.

937
01:23:39,820 --> 01:23:40,260
Thank you.