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[2:29] Yeah, we got a bigger one.
[2:31] We got a bigger one.
[2:31] There he is.
[3:01] What's that?
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[3:09] That's what he's got.
[3:12] Oh, that's funny.
[3:14] What's that?
[3:15] What's that?
[3:15] You want to work with him?
[3:25] Let me just get out of our weather and base,
[3:27] by the way.
[3:28] Yeah.
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[3:46] This one's pretty much the same.
[3:52] Yeah.
[4:00] We already got a water over here.
[4:02] I think
[4:15] that the other is the new.
[6:37] We have the same 4 music skills that I like.
[6:39] How do you know?
[6:42] I've always been seen in the event.
[6:44] Even after the meeting was over.
[6:48] Last night we got out before 10 o'clock.
[6:56] It's only a closed session.
[6:58] It's only a closed session.
[6:59] It's only a closed session.
[7:01] It just rose everything on.
[7:56] We're going to
[8:01] call the order of the Cedar Valley Water Conservancy meeting.
[8:04] It is August 20th, 2026, and first item of business is called order.
[8:11] Tyler, all right, would you lead us in pledge?
[8:13] Sure.
[8:14] Thank you.
[8:15] We
[8:19] don't just say it.
[8:20] Well, please follow me.
[8:22] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
[8:28] And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
[8:33] indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
[8:39] Thank you.
[8:39] Could we impose on Mayor Nelson to give us an implication?
[8:42] Absolutely.
[8:43] So,
[8:45] spotting and reporting time, we look for the opportunity to be able to live in a
[8:49] strict community for associations and have each other and we can serve in effort and
[8:56] stewardship in which our leaders in this area strive to work together and solve problems.
[9:05] We're grateful that we can be here tonight and we're great that we can be guided and
[9:26] Thank you very much, item number two is the declaration of the distinctions and or conflicts of interest by board members.
[9:32] Are there any conflicts or distinctions that need be declared at this time?
[9:36] I don't know.
[9:39] Okay, see none.
[9:40] I don't know number three. Consider approval of minutes from the board meeting held July 16th, 2026.
[9:45] Is there any discussion?
[9:47] Motion to approve the second.
[9:48] Motion to approve the minutes for meeting of July 26th and second, all in favor?
[9:53] Aye.
[9:54] Motion passes.
[9:56] Next number four is public comment.
[9:58] Is there any members of the public would like to come forward and make a comment or stuff?
[10:02] here
[10:08] and see nothing so all right we'll go on to number five financials of the
[10:14] water conservancy district and here we go.
[10:39] 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.
[10:50] 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.
[11:04] It's for the audit not just the presentation.
[11:08] It was a big presentation, but it is for me.
[11:11] Not bad.
[11:12] Thank you all for coming.
[11:20] On page number seven, we paid, again, for the Park West Wall.
[11:25] I think that went to the board of the way.
[11:27] We touched on a brief announcement for the issues that we were having with the Park West Wall.
[11:32] Again, some of my explorations went out there into the brush.
[11:34] You didn't really have all that work.
[11:36] So you'll see that in to them.
[11:38] The only other highlight I had that I wanted to cover was our annual feed for our lease on
[11:48] our castle, and we make that to do it at the other payment that you'll see there was
[11:56] payment to leave our one-of-the-track loaders to go and help our neighbors in New York with some
[12:03] of their food clean up.
[12:04] So we wanted to show our bags of appreciation for going up there and taking their Saturday
[12:13] did anyone have any questions or any that I didn't cover?
[12:22] No, I've seen none.
[12:24] Do you want me to go through that?
[12:28] Sure, and then we'll prove it.
[12:30] Perfect. There are a lot of women to go over for a credit
[12:35] that I've never seen them on accounts.
[12:38] Again, we have seen quite a few return payments, return payment fees, we're keeping up on
[12:47] those and hopefully they'll start to go back.
[12:50] But, did anyone have any questions about the transaction?
[12:59] Okay, that is it.
[13:01] I'll entertain a motion to approve the financial expenditures.
[13:09] Okay, motion and second to approve the financials has presented all in favor.
[13:13] Aye.
[13:14] Any opposed?
[13:15] Okay.
[13:16] Thank you very much.
[13:17] Let's go.
[13:18] There's one question on some of this stuff.
[13:20] I would say approval is fine and just curious.
[13:22] I've noticed in here there was a time for someone using their buyer flow meter.
[13:30] Can I propably?
[13:31] Yes.
[13:32] That's really hard to do.
[13:33] is that something we have probably happened for?
[13:36] Yeah, I would like to say that it's not common,
[13:39] but it's happening more than it should if it happened at all.
[13:42] Right.
[13:43] So we only have a couple of those
[13:45] within the entire district,
[13:46] and we've had to process that point
[13:49] on hope of those companies that have a fire pointed.
[13:55] And so I know in the Cedar City system,
[13:59] at least before everything was digital,
[14:03] A lot of times those meters won't be wet if they're not expected to be used.
[14:07] Do we have all of those on the digital meters so that we can put what if it is being used?
[14:11] You know that's so.
[14:12] 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.
[14:23] I'm assuming if something gets on the fire hydrant, it's like, oh, I'm going to fill this
[14:27] power drop up.
[14:28] It was like, it's a lot easier to feed it off.
[14:31] It's cheaper, too.
[14:33] We didn't tell they didn't fill this cycle.
[14:36] Okay.
[14:37] Now I'm good to know.
[14:38] Appreciate how you know.
[14:41] Okay.
[14:41] Thank you.
[14:43] Let's go over to the financials of the water industry.
[14:46] Yeah.
[14:46] To that point.
[14:47] Yeah.
[14:49] Okay, so page 1 of the operational budget just wanted to highlight a couple things highlighted there so you can review on insurance.
[15:00] 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.
[15:26] 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.
[15:34] So that's where you see that comes in.
[15:36] The other $17,000 for some meters.
[15:40] And then that's associated then on page three.
[15:46] You will come the capital side of the budget.
[15:48] You can see that reuse project there.
[15:51] 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.
[16:05] And then, just a couple other highlights.
[16:08] You can see what we've spent so far in our other projects,
[16:12] beginning with Basin-14, the Pine Valley Warrer's
[16:14] pipe project.
[16:15] Most of that has been legal fees.
[16:21] And happy with the results of both so far.
[16:25] All of the parties have dropped out of the appeal process
[16:29] with the ABLA and their no current outstanding
[16:32] lawsuits on that project.
[16:33] So we'll be forward and we'll talk about that later.
[16:35] in the meeting.
[16:37] And then we got water system 40 years.
[16:41] I think we talked about this last month.
[16:43] Just wanted to highlight with that where we didn't have
[16:46] anything budgeted that we had a well go down.
[16:48] So that was the re-structuring and swapping
[16:53] and of one well that we were able to rehab and swab and clean up
[17:00] and put back into production and actually producing
[17:02] a lot more than it was.
[17:03] and out the water levels have come up in that because of the cleaning and another one was that
[17:09] we had to re-drill a well so that's where that line items come through. Bottom line you can see
[17:17] there what we're at you know it shows that projected that we would be the negative but a 1.4 million
[17:25] but if you were to flip back and look at our text property revenue that doesn't come in until December
[17:30] and, you know, we're still pleased to receive over a million dollars there, as well as some
[17:36] of the revenues that will come in. So, anyway, just wanted to get a little snapshot. We'll
[17:40] spend a lot more time on the budget and finances that are next meeting. So, we'll be discussing
[17:47] and starting to get into our budget process there. Any questions on any of the projects that
[17:54] We're at page 4 where we're at, on our down sheet there, see the cash we have on hand
[18:04] or different accounts.
[18:06] One highlight there, about 4, by the way, is down on the cash value thing that we have
[18:11] in there, kind of our investment savings account, we initially just put in $5 million there
[18:16] so that has grown to over $100,000 in the time that it's been there, so that's fun to see.
[18:25] questions.
[18:31] Okay that's all I have.
[18:34] Okay sounds good. Thank you Paul. Number six we're
[18:37] doing discuss tax liability for parity, water, water, bond, anticipation, note, services
[18:42] 23, series 23. Some of the men you want to know like that.
[18:48] Sure, I'm
[18:52] going to share a little bit because our enemy is new to our approach process
[18:59] heard
[19:02] themselves as a candidate, but we did receive them and basically the note that
[19:08] we had, like how lower interest rate than the money coming, or the money that we were
[19:14] able to gain off interest while that step in the main group.
[19:18] So the IRS required you to go through a process and you basically need to pay money
[19:30] on the
[19:36] process without,
[19:40] we initially expected that it would be around $52,000, but after the whole process, it ended up being $100,000.
[19:49] 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.
[20:01] So they had to hold all for the money that we received
[20:04] where the balance we owed the IRS at $110,000,
[20:08] $37.00 some points.
[20:13] You can scroll down on that and show
[20:15] actual summary of the competition there.
[20:18] That's in your book to some type three.
[20:23] Yeah, so it's a, it sounds painful to pay that IRS,
[20:27] but what it really ultimately means
[20:29] is that we made money on those bond funds
[20:32] and legally you cannot do that on a non-bearing interest account for a lot of accounts.
[20:44] So we've already processed that check and it'll be going out.
[20:49] 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.
[20:59] Yeah, so
[21:08] just yeah, I just wanted to make you wear that. No action that's painful with
[21:14] the non-surprise.
[21:17] Yeah, I guess. Okay, any questions on item 6 and any other comment?
[21:26] Number 7,
[21:27] water conservation update discussion.
[21:32] I just wanted to highlight, I don't know if Tracy, if you've
[21:36] have any numbers yet, what we've been able to pump from a quiche of pot, I didn't ask you beforehand
[21:41] and then we put in the spot just to see if you've got an idea of what we've been able
[21:47] to supply from that recharge system or that recycled system.
[21:53] Yes, it is part of the technology model, but I can't know if it's free awesome being able
[21:57] to take all this blood water and we have captured every minute of it and put it on the north end
[22:03] of a quick spot and used it for the pivot and stuff out there and I think that we've captured
[22:11] and not out of these last week and half stormy,
[22:14] that we will probably take care of those Phyllis
[22:17] through the season, which is just,
[22:21] it's pretty awesome, you know,
[22:23] put that project together and see
[22:24] it work exactly where it has.
[22:27] And Paul and Humberley went through
[22:31] and did a presentation on from beginning
[22:34] to the time it hits, the folks going to the Phyllis
[22:40] the plumbing is a water and that whole project is working so incredible it takes some
[22:48] you're getting out of a tight jar of water you get in that much sediment and by the time
[22:53] it gets to the pumps to go into those emits is clear and it's just amazing how all this
[23:00] working and to be able to capture just terrible flood water from all the sediment and have
[23:05] useable by the time we get through that process. But I would imagine it will probably be close to
[23:12] 280 water that will capture from the storage and use them. I don't really think that the farmers
[23:20] haven't turned on their well out there for over a month now and I don't think they'll turn it on.
[23:28] And we're talking about hottest time of the year. So it's just pretty awesome to be able to do this
[23:33] and have a project work exactly like the one and the two.
[23:36] So I have to get out to the word.
[23:38] Where does the seven of you go?
[23:39] Where do you flesh that to?
[23:40] The very bottom of the quiche bottle.
[23:44] On one side is a catch basin.
[23:48] From, we have two diversion points.
[23:51] We have one that's got a three foot gate by five foot.
[23:54] We lift it up and it goes down.
[23:55] Be sure to pull that up. That would be awesome.
[23:59] That part is catching stuff that comes down through.
[24:03] 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.
[24:14] Forces that over so that we can put all of the water in the north end.
[24:20] Before when a flood has first come down through there, there's all of the debris and everything on the front of them.
[24:26] and until probably about 15 to 20 minutes of degree.
[24:30] And so we're able to do out there.
[24:32] At the moment that gate, let all of the group go by,
[24:35] raise the gate back up,
[24:37] and then we have a great big 12 foot flume out there
[24:41] that will flow 300 cubic feet per second through it,
[24:44] and a three foot gate that will just flow
[24:47] through the fiber cube per second.
[24:49] Depending on what we need there in the laser river.
[24:53] And as you can see in that laser river,
[24:54] So there's five sections, 50 feet wide and 500 feet long, and on the other side of the road, you can see that
[25:02] that pollen right there, the pond has a pump for the center of which pond, that pulls water from the middle of the lake,
[25:12] into that pond, or there is a channel that comes down and puts it in from the poultry itself.
[25:18] And so we have two ways of using that water, and we try to use every bit of it,
[25:23] but we try to be efficient to use as much down the channel,
[25:26] we know we have to take the pump on them in a little way.
[25:29] So do we get any revenue from the farmer using that water?
[25:32] They pay for the paper, they pay for the power.
[25:37] They pay for the power, are we making it?
[25:38] They actually let us use their property
[25:41] with this whole structure.
[25:43] And so we also have a recharge base out there too.
[25:47] So it's kind of a partnership that we've never done
[25:50] of this, a whole time bridge above the band there, in the last six years, we've finally
[25:55] started using that water, and it really is working, etc. So, we're pretty stoked about
[26:01] it, to see the flood water begin with just as much as you can possibly imagine to,
[26:07] through the water. By the time it gets through the end of that last piece of the lacing drill,
[26:12] that's where we're constantly up to 30, 20 power pumps. Well, that will flow about 10,000
[26:17] Yeah, I use that that water sometimes thinks on to my farm and it plugs everything off everything I own that so yeah
[26:23] That's why that's why it's so important to have this this sediment basin to actually use it
[26:29] 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
[26:36] 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
[26:47] 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.
[26:57] Any other questions?
[27:00] No, the video's good. Let's watch part of the history.
[27:03] Only the people we should have when I wish that had one.
[27:08] We were talking about maybe showing the video but I don't know if we can find it.
[27:21] Rarely acceptable to use this one and so that's another great thing about it.
[27:32] 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.
[29:02] Thanks Tracy. I think it's good for that video. That's a re-charge and re-exploration.
[29:10] Or is it a random question on those concepts?
[29:13] Is it any exploration to do that to all of Cokerick?
[29:20] Not just left over, but it's not all of it
[29:23] to be something to be used in the second period.
[29:27] Yeah, I mean, for the most part,
[29:29] all of Cokerick is used all of the time.
[29:32] And your ag producers are using that all of the time.
[29:35] And there's not anything that's wasted,
[29:37] if, generally speaking, except for extremely high flows at the spring runoff or these flash
[29:46] flood events because like Paul mentioned, you put it in your system right now and it
[29:51] just plugs everything out, or rooms, crops, so fortunately, you know, for a lot of years
[29:58] We would like to cut your prizes.
[30:00] 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.
[30:28] where we can do some of that as well.
[30:31] That was if you talked about it.
[30:33] I'll put it back to you either way in the longer time.
[30:36] Yeah.
[30:37] And also, you know, potentially we may want to look at some other storage for
[30:42] this type of water and this flood water.
[30:46] You may not want to put this type of water into your main reservoir out there
[30:53] because of the amount of sediment load.
[30:56] I've got some pictures on here of those different sediments.
[31:00] I think that's the number one thing.
[31:02] Well, one call they have is you run this kind of water,
[31:05] I can be your Schmidt pit, one for all pit,
[31:07] still to the left and then you've defeated your whole purpose.
[31:09] Yeah, you can't get a job without just doing the cleaning process.
[31:13] Just don't do the video.
[31:16] There's just some pictures.
[31:17] It's on, don't worry about it.
[31:20] But really, I mean, you've got,
[31:21] I've done it in some, at some points when I've chased these flash floods, where it's been 90%
[31:28] so I know.
[31:29] So my point is the cleaning mark.
[31:32] Yeah.
[31:32] Where do you get into that place and that same idea of community life?
[31:38] What do you buy some more?
[31:39] Yeah.
[31:42] Because right now this is providing enough water for the one farmer out there close.
[31:47] Right.
[31:47] Right, so there's still probably potentially more water, especially good years that can be used in.
[31:57] 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.
[32:06] So it becomes difficult to find a location of canyon because I really don't have the space there to do it.
[32:14] And so yeah, but I think that there are ways to better utilize it and
[32:19] the places where you have spaces out of Kuchapa and out by this version of the
[32:24] player, I know.
[32:30] If there are any questions or
[32:31] visit about the re-use and recycle program, Curtis can get
[32:37] something on that? You know Paul Disper second, I know that
[32:43] Raymond is planning on putting it. If you want to people online will be able to hear
[32:49] I
[32:54] 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.
[33:00] At that point, we're very split, so we've been utilizing more of the water to go up there.
[33:06] So it doesn't at least address me because I really listen to the coastways down there.
[33:13] But that is in the process, I hope you should pull it off and get it done.
[33:17] and you appreciate the information, but I share them.
[33:21] So we talked about it just about three weeks ago.
[33:25] I did with the number and he was talking about
[33:28] the amount of issues.
[33:29] I'll close it.
[33:36] Okay, Chris.
[33:38] So we've got some progress on the reuse side.
[33:40] We've got a lot of ground money available now.
[33:42] We can finally get the majority of this project done.
[33:46] I'm going to be meeting yesterday
[33:47] for our regional water meeting.
[33:49] And we decided we're going to proceed forward
[33:52] We're on design through the water concern and sea of administration that will help convey
[33:57] the source of water that's treated and pushed back to the south for use within the sea
[34:02] of cooperation within the sea of cooperation as well.
[34:06] The idea and the design behind it is that anybody that attended the tour with us to Ash Creek
[34:11] will be that somewhere large manifold that we can expand that.
[34:15] The number of pumps that we've got is we get more fill in and more water available through
[34:20] So we can push it, push it further to the south.
[34:23] The second component is I guess,
[34:24] seriously, they got their test results back on their treatment.
[34:27] And they need to add a UV system.
[34:29] So we're going to help support them on creating an RFP
[34:34] to have a UV system engineer on that new treatment facility.
[34:38] So we can get it up to the standard where we can pretty much
[34:41] use it anywhere.
[34:43] So that's the process progress we've made.
[34:45] We're finally making big steps on the engineering side.
[34:47] that we have our laments figured out, we have our sizing figured out, spend a little bit of a process,
[34:51] we've got money available, we're going to proceed forward, and we'll start getting that water back into the area.
[34:57] Any questions there?
[34:59] 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.
[35:08] He's got a pretty good stack, yes, he does, so thank you.
[35:13] Yeah, we'll support him anyway, we can.
[35:16] Okay, thank you. Let's go to an operating
[35:19] concern and see if the structural improvements.
[35:22] Okay, go ahead. Okay, we do have some updates on both of the wells.
[35:26] First, I ran out this morning, first thing this morning to the base at 71.
[35:29] They're down 910 feet as of this morning with their pile of hole.
[35:34] They're going to go on to our goals to hit 1,000.
[35:37] They anticipate they'll have that done by Friday.
[35:39] And after that, we'll send off all of the cuttings over the first day analysis.
[35:43] and a lot of our screening and casing is undone after that.
[35:47] So things are progressing really well.
[35:49] They're on a good day, they're doing about 50, 55 feet a day,
[35:52] typically just on average about 40 feet a day.
[35:55] Once they got down about, he said about 60 feet,
[35:58] they got into some random, some hard stuff,
[36:00] but it was going well.
[36:02] Things we, he's found some fractures,
[36:04] so it should be a good well.
[36:06] We'll just kind of wait and see how that works.
[36:08] Also we did, if I remember to do some view mapping of it,
[36:11] That means it's a better idea where we've got water bearing areas as we size and get that screening design done.
[36:18] With the BZI Innovation Park as well, we had our pre-construction meeting yesterday with USDA.
[36:24] 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.
[36:32] I'm going to start drilling on Monday as far as I understand.
[36:35] And did we get that road and the past everything done?
[36:38] Okay, so that's ready to go.
[36:40] We got to start hard today.
[36:42] So it's ready to go as soon as they're on site.
[36:45] So we'll keep you updated on progress on that one.
[36:50] Thanks. Well, thank you.
[36:52] That was based on 71 and BZI that everything covered?
[36:58] Yeah, that's the remaining portion was brought up again.
[37:02] All right, number nine, base 14,
[37:04] Pine Valley Waterfront by project.
[37:05] update and presentation of ground order analysis and discussion.
[37:12] Yes, so we've got Mike, he said in Pete Townsend here from Formation Environmental and they're
[37:19] going to give us a presentation on environmentally where we're at and also, you know, next steps
[37:28] in this project as we agree to the land to commitments through the EIS.
[37:34] Yes. So with that, Mike, we'll invite you to keep, let's see, did you get, there's a
[37:41] clip around there. I think everything should be ready to go. I think I turned it off,
[37:45] though, so you'll have to switch it on.
[37:48] Okay.
[37:57] And I think it's an honor to be here. My name is Mike Teetson. I'm a hydrogeologist and engineering
[38:01] geologist. And I've been working on the high-value water supply projects since March 2019. I was
[38:09] to lead on completing the groundwater resources impact assessment as part of the EIS process
[38:16] for BLM. And Pete was the person that was in charge of developing the groundwater model
[38:24] that was used for a lot of the impact analysis. So we've really been really privileged to work
[38:31] on the project and thank you for having us here. My aim tonight is to give you a presentation
[38:38] about the groundwater resources impact assessment
[38:42] and the resulting monitoring and mitigation measures
[38:47] that are planned, I'll explain those a little bit more.
[38:50] And leaning into what the next steps are
[38:53] that you can expect moving forward now
[38:55] with the project has been improved by BLM.
[39:00] So groundwater resources impact assessment typically starts
[39:05] with identifying and understanding,
[39:08] characterizing your affected environment.
[39:11] And in this case, that includes the aquifer
[39:14] and includes the groundwater uses and senior water rights.
[39:17] It includes the adjacent basins.
[39:20] It includes things like springs and wells
[39:22] and water management plans in the area.
[39:27] And then looking at the project description
[39:30] and where it intersects with that environment.
[39:33] So understanding the well-configuration, where the wells are going to go, the time period
[39:40] of operation, and how that intersects.
[39:44] And the intersection with groundwater resources assessment is often done using computer models.
[39:51] And so it's important there to understand computer models are a tool.
[39:56] They're going to be good for certain things, but they are going to leave uncertainties, so
[40:02] you want to make sure that you understand those uncertainties and that you're using the models
[40:06] appropriately to answer the questions that need to be answered. So with that said, I will
[40:12] proceed to, well, I can do this myself. Okay. This slide shows the project and the upper left-hand
[40:22] side and the southern part of the high-end value. You see, it's actually 15 dots representing 15 wells.
[40:28] 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.
[40:43] 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.
[40:59] This is spelled slide shows the study area in the area of project effects.
[41:05] So when you're talking about an impacted environment or affected environment,
[41:09] both of those are important to define.
[41:12] And the study area, in this case in the middle of it,
[41:15] maybe a little bit hard to see, but in the middle of it is pine valley,
[41:20] and that's surrounded by six other basins with which pine valley would interact.
[41:25] And so that's why all of those basins are in the state area.
[41:29] And then you can see there's two lines.
[41:32] There's a green line and a purple line.
[41:36] Those are the predicted maximum extent of one foot of draw now.
[41:41] And so we've defined that because it's important to define the area of project effects
[41:46] so that you can understand what effects to look for where.
[41:50] And also so that you can understand how the project might be interacting with other pumping that is going on in the area.
[42:01] So key facts about Pine Valley Basin.
[42:05] So, let's start with, it's located in what's called the Great Basin Carbonate and Illuvial Cockrofer System.
[42:12] What that means is many millions of years ago, the shallow seas on the western coast deposited a lot of carbonate.
[42:21] limestone and dull light, limestone and dull light dissolves and forms caverns, so it forms
[42:27] a regional aquifer that can communicate the cross mountain ranges. Each of those valleys
[42:35] is filled with alluvium, so that the sand, gravel, silt, and clay that's eroded from those mountains,
[42:42] and those are the primary aquifers that are used for water from which the wells draw their water,
[42:48] But because of the underlying carbonate system, those effects can be communicated into the adjacent bases.
[42:56] So that's kind of unique to this area. That's important to understand.
[43:00] 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.
[43:12] Southwestern Oregon too. So that's the important fact there. Second important fact is Pine Valley's surface drainage is internal, right?
[43:21] 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
[43:33] or evaporation, or it's trying to percolate into the surface where it's the regional water
[43:39] table eventually, and only then can it move out of the basin.
[43:44] So that's important from a water budget analysis viewpoint, because all of the precipitation
[43:50] that falls on the off-time valley either percolates to the subsurface, or it's used by plants.
[43:58] Second, next fact is the regional groundwater levels are very deep and what that means basically
[44:05] is that there are no plants that are directly using the regional groundwater aquifer.
[44:11] It's simply too deep, it's hundreds of deep deep.
[44:15] So that's good from the standpoint of that there aren't nearby plants that could go dry.
[44:22] 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.
[44:36] 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.
[44:46] And in terms of senior water rights, they are much fewer.
[44:51] Most of them in fact are springs in this area, but there are some wells.
[44:55] I'm early stocking domestic wells in the area.
[45:00] 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.
[45:29] Next, groundwater flow is impeded and slowed down by faults, volcanic rocks and what are
[45:38] called salicylic, clastic rocks in the carbonate aquifers, those are simply like cooked
[45:44] shells and sandstones that don't transmit water very well.
[45:49] And those tend to be more common on the southwest, southeast, and southern clanks, which
[45:58] basically means that the drawdown in pine valleys is not going to communicate as well across
[46:05] those boundaries.
[46:06] And because it doesn't draw in as much water from those, we need those boundaries to draw
[46:11] down in that area as it's potential to be a little bit greater.
[46:15] So again, it's kind of a good news, bad news, kind of a story.
[46:18] you're less likely to affect your neighbors, but you need to deal with a little bit more
[46:22] and grow down in this other part of the town.
[46:27] Next, the Mountain Springs Water Chemistry and Geology was analyzed by USGS, a report
[46:33] published in 2020, and they sampled a whole bunch of springs and wells, and one of the outcomes
[46:39] was that they found that all of the mountain springs, except for one surrounding Pine Valley,
[46:47] does not appear to be connected to the regional aqua system.
[46:52] So those springs waterfalls on mountains and it's a geologic impediment and then flows
[46:57] laterally and it comes out in a spring and the goodness is those springs can't be affected
[47:02] by regional humming.
[47:04] Wild West Springs is an exception to that.
[47:07] So although USGS initially concluded that Wild West Springs is also a local spring and not
[47:14] connected to the regional aquifer. When they tested the chemistry, they found that some
[47:19] of the chemistry indicated something that we would expect to find more with deep,
[47:24] recirculating water. So as a result of that in our analysis, we conservatively concluded
[47:29] that it's 100% connected to the regional aquifer to see what the impacts might be under that kind
[47:37] of conservative inclusion. So that covers the Wallace Springs chemistry as well. Other regional
[47:44] springs I've talked about shallow regional water tables occurred 60 miles plus 50 to 60 miles
[47:52] to the north of the site. And what that means is by the time that the groundwater gets shallow enough
[47:57] for plants and for springs to discharge the the drawdown is dispersed over a broader area. So it's
[48:05] not as much drawdown.
[48:07] So the good news there is that those strengths
[48:11] and those, they're called free outfights
[48:14] or groundwater dependent ecosystems,
[48:16] are not likely to be as effective
[48:18] as if they were closer to the project site.
[48:23] And then finally, the L.A. Phil sediments
[48:27] include buried leg deposits.
[48:29] So in the geologic past, I'm Valley
[48:31] was periodically occupied by legs,
[48:34] like composite clays, clays when they're dewatered,
[48:40] they can compress, right?
[48:42] So, and when the water pressure in the clays
[48:44] gets less than the overline sediment pressure,
[48:50] and that sediment can push the clays down,
[48:53] and they can compress, and that's happened
[48:54] in the barrel enterprise area, and in Cedar Valley,
[48:57] where you've seen some subsidence.
[48:59] So there is no potential for subsidence in time,
[49:02] valley as well, and that needs to be considered.
[49:07] So I'm going to talk a little bit about the effects and impact analysis.
[49:14] So this slide shows a series of pains over time that simulate the drawdown that is associated
[49:24] with pumping from the octave.
[49:26] So in the upper left hand pane, it is time zero that's before any company begins and then
[49:35] each pane gets a little bit later and the different color bands show the amount of drawdown
[49:42] that's predicted by the model to a curb. What's simulated here and what we simulated in the model
[49:50] was 50 years of project coming, which includes the original 30 year right-of-way grant
[49:57] in 120 years and then 400 years of recovery. So the reason for approaching it that way is
[50:06] because in groundwater resources impact assessment you have to set some reasonable boundaries
[50:11] around what you analyze. And for most projects in my experience that's about 30 to 50 years and in
[50:18] case, that coincides with the amount of pumping or the duration of pumping that is authorized
[50:27] underneath it.
[50:28] So, that's a construct of the analysis.
[50:31] It does not mean that the project goes full bore for 50 years and then suddenly you have
[50:37] no wires to fly.
[50:38] I think the district is constantly evaluating and so this is simply a construct of how
[50:47] the impacts are analyzed. The 400 years of recovery are there because the basin is isolated
[51:00] and recharged is relatively slow to recover the groundwater loans. And that means that there's
[51:07] going to be residual drawdown for a long period of time. And so we wanted to simulate that for a long
[51:12] period of time to understand what it does, kind of, you know, in the interest of
[51:17] full disclosure, you can expect a lot of the raw down in high-mally, a lot less
[51:24] or more diffused raw down in surrounding basins, and you can expect that to
[51:31] persist for a long period of time, and to and to progress laterally very slowly.
[51:38] So in terms of the amounts, what you see is that at the 50-year period, which is the second
[51:44] from the right pane, you see the maximum amount of drawdown in pine valley, in this case,
[51:49] with this welcome configuration.
[51:51] So the pine valley, that's about 330 feet of drawdown, out of a well that might have between
[51:57] 500 and 1,000 feet of screen interval.
[52:01] And then after that time, the drawdown in pine valley begins to recover, but the drawdown
[52:08] continues to propagate into the surrounding areas so that what you can see there is that
[52:13] sort of a blue flag on the upper right-hand corner of your draw-down area that is continuing
[52:20] to progress there for about 200 years and then it persists. While in Pye Valley, the
[52:27] groundwater draw-down has recovered between 10-50 feet of its original groundwater levels.
[52:35] Now, what's important to understand also with these figures is that they simulate where
[52:42] they present and draw down.
[52:44] Okay?
[52:44] So that's the difference between the original pre- pumping groundwater level and the groundwater
[52:49] level under pumping or recovery conditions.
[52:52] It does not indicate capture or groundwater flow.
[52:56] So that's important to understand, and I'll show you that in the next slide.
[53:02] So, this slide shows a section along the predominant path of groundwater flow, and it is located
[53:11] with north toward the right, okay, so on the upper left hand is where pine valley is, and you
[53:19] can see the blue dots, those are the wells, and then the section proceeds northward through the
[53:25] enterprise area into Pine Valley across the northern part of Walla to the end
[53:31] into Tulee Valley over a distance of about 125 miles. And the three lines, so
[53:41] that the upper-most line is the topography. And there's a little bit of
[53:44] vertical exaggeration there, but that's the ground surface. And then there's
[53:50] three lines under that representing the water table at different times.
[53:54] And so, just kind of in a gross fashion what you see is that the groundwater table is highest
[54:02] in a mound that sits at the intersection between barrel enterprise and high depth.
[54:09] So that's the high point of the regional groundwater flow system.
[54:12] And toward the north it drops off and groundwater flows in the direction of decreasing elevation
[54:19] from high pressure to low pressure.
[54:21] and so you can see the groundwater flow is to the north and it flattens out and gets close to the
[54:28] groundwater close to the land surface once you get up into the middle and northern part of Tulee Valley.
[54:36] So the green line is the groundwater table before any pumping occurs.
[54:43] Then the blue line is the groundwater table after 50 years of pumping
[54:49] And the biggest thing there that stands out is in that mound that is in other pine
[54:56] valley.
[54:57] You see a bite that's taken on it, you see a chunk that's taken on it.
[55:01] That's your well field and that's the maximum amount of draw down that occurs in that
[55:06] well field.
[55:07] So you can see that the groundwater flow is still to the north and that by the time you
[55:12] get from between the distance of maybe 15 miles to 30 miles along the transect, or if you
[55:20] look very hard, maybe 10 miles to 30 miles, it becomes difficult to distinguish the three
[55:26] lines. That means there's not much drawdown outside of that area.
[55:42] These sets of tiles are the same as the first set that we looked at, except they show
[55:48] the cumulative drawdown.
[55:49] So what cumulative drawdown is the drawdown from the project and the drawdown from other
[55:57] wells that are in the site vicinity. In this case, all those are in Stain Valley. There's a few
[56:04] in the northern barrel enterprise area that are included in the study. And then there's
[56:10] one well that's planned in the southern, severe, kind of the southwest of your lake.
[56:19] And what you can see is that there is a water drawdown in the area that it can be expected to occur
[56:26] because of the existing pumping, even in the absence of a project.
[56:30] Together with the project, the project starts to pop into view after about 50 years of,
[56:38] you know, 25 years of pumping, and then the effect increases for a period of time and
[56:45] then disperses.
[56:48] You'd have to look closely at this, but I'm going to explain to you that the interaction
[56:55] between the non-project pumping and the project pumping occurs in areas where there's not predicted to be very much drawdown.
[57:04] In other words, most of the drawdown in pine valley will occur as a result of pumping in pine valley.
[57:10] Pumping in snake valley produces minimal drawdown in pine valley.
[57:15] 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.
[57:24] So while there is some what would be called cumulative drawdown in the northern part of the
[57:29] Merrill enterprise area that might be significant in snake valley that is not the case.
[57:39] So on overview of the groundwater impacts, first the figure on the right is just another
[57:45] look at how the drawdown from the project needs color indicates the extent of one foot or more
[57:52] of drawdown after a specific period of time.
[57:55] So you can see how it progresses slowly over many years.
[57:59] Our most color ban year is 200 years after the project stops pumping.
[58:05] So we see drawdown and water budget changes in the modeling results
[58:11] and we'll expect them reasonably in the basin itself in Pine Valley
[58:17] as well as in the six surrounding basins.
[58:19] That's just an effect that you see when you start pulling water out
[58:23] you affect the water budget.
[58:24] you have to, right, you're taking water that used to go somewhere else and you have to have
[58:30] drawdown because in order to move water to a well that moves from high to low, the water levels have
[58:37] to go down. The question is, is it significant? Does it hurt the environment or does it potentially
[58:44] do harm to senior water rights? So, the drawdown will propagate slowly and would be limited outside
[58:51] of Pine Valley, the potentially significant impact that we found is that there will be
[58:56] some well-interference drawdown impacts to senior water rights.
[59:02] So what that means is we set a threshold of 15 feet of drawdown within 50 years, and
[59:09] that's based on the reasonable lifespan of a well, and based on other findings by the UWRI,
[59:19] what is to what constitutes significant interference.
[59:22] At what point is the well-ealed potentially diminished
[59:25] or does it become significantly more expensive
[59:28] to solve those other questions?
[59:31] And what we find is that there are wells in pine valley
[59:35] that will experience a significant drawdown.
[59:39] Some of them will probably go dry.
[59:42] And that needs to be mitigated
[59:44] and the district is proposing to implement
[59:47] and a well-met monitoring and mitigation program
[59:50] for those wells.
[59:52] So I don't remember the exact number,
[59:54] I think under the Southern Well Field Configuration,
[59:56] I think it's about six wells,
[59:58] under the north.
[1:00:00] 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
[1:00:29] either giving them a water supply or deepening their wells or replacing their wells is a common
[1:00:35] way to deal with this.
[1:00:40] Next, while this brings discharge depletion, it is, again, remember that
[1:00:45] we assume that it's 100% connected and the data indicate that's not the case. So it's a conservative
[1:00:53] assumption and the model shows that the worst case depletion would be about 14% of the flow.
[1:01:02] is it going to be 14.0% or is it going to be higher than that or lower than that?
[1:01:09] Honestly, this is a fairly rough number, but it indicates roughly that you can expect
[1:01:16] potentially to see some observable amount of depletion that might be a concern.
[1:01:25] It's also possible that we will see no completion, so we're talking about a potential impact
[1:01:31] that needs to be accounted for.
[1:01:35] Potential subsidence in Pine Valley, the lake sediments are more prominent in the northern
[1:01:44] part of the valley, so that's where more susceptibility to subsidence is likely to be centered
[1:01:51] and draw down in that area will be less.
[1:01:55] Nevertheless, the intersection between leads us
[1:01:58] to the conclusion based on observations and other basins
[1:02:02] that it's not unreasonable to expect,
[1:02:05] or there is the potential for significance of science
[1:02:09] that could be at a level where it could start
[1:02:12] to damage infrastructure.
[1:02:15] The good news is there's not much infrastructure there
[1:02:17] to damage.
[1:02:18] So, from mitigation viewpoint also, that's managing.
[1:02:24] Potentially not significant at that's the precion of discharge from regional springs
[1:02:29] in Stakeham-Touli valleys.
[1:02:32] There is some model predicted depletion, but it's a very low percentage, and it's below the
[1:02:40] percentage that would be observable, measurable or observable at the springs.
[1:02:48] So, in our opinion, it's less than significant.
[1:02:51] The drawdown effect is reattifites in Tuley Valley
[1:02:54] and south of severe lake, fall under similar category.
[1:02:58] Again, by the time the drawdown gets that far,
[1:03:01] the impacts are dispersed.
[1:03:04] And then finally, altered interface and flow,
[1:03:07] it's inevitable that it would occur
[1:03:09] whenever you pump water out of a system,
[1:03:12] but it's less than significant.
[1:03:13] It's not going to take water away,
[1:03:15] for example, from barrel enterprise to the point where they can't implement their
[1:03:19] gravel or management plan.
[1:03:24] So in order to deal with both the uncertainty and
[1:03:27] mitigation, these are the anti-potential impacts. We've adopted a monitoring and
[1:03:34] mitigation program in the EIS that addresses that. And this just shows some of the
[1:03:40] show is an overview of the steps in developing the program and the nature of the
[1:03:46] program. So, there's two different drivers for monitoring and mitigation. And one is the
[1:03:54] NEPA monitoring and mitigation programs, so that's based on the traditional view of
[1:04:00] the analyzed environmental impacts. You mitigate the monitoring and you mitigate for impacts
[1:04:05] to either decrease or eliminate them. And then the second is the well field adaptive management
[1:04:13] program where the water rights were from the state engineer contains a
[1:04:17] stipulation that there be monitoring to assess whether or not the operation of
[1:04:23] the basin remains within safe field and if it does not then go to a Dr.
[1:04:28] groundwater management plan and over time her tailed pumping to a sure
[1:04:32] restoration of safe field. So in terms of what that means for the steps to be
[1:04:37] implemented at the top you see that there is a planet needs to be developed. That's
[1:04:42] first on the agenda. Second on the agenda is to on the left hand side on
[1:04:48] Geneva to develop monitoring networks. And that would, several areas that would
[1:04:55] occur and I'll show you down in the next slide. To conduct baseline monitoring so
[1:05:01] that you collect information before the project is implemented that you can
[1:05:04] come here to project impacts too. And then to implement an operational monitoring
[1:05:09] program that's tied to various different thresholds and triggers that escalate
[1:05:14] actions if there's a significant impact or potential for significant impacts
[1:05:19] is bound to occur. So that and that's set up in kind of a tiered fashion to
[1:05:25] where first you know sort of like green light yellow light red light where
[1:05:29] green light is okay everything's happening as we predicted yellow light is okay it's
[1:05:34] not quite happening as we predicted let's slow down and figure this out and then
[1:05:38] and red light is, okay, this could cause a problem.
[1:05:41] We need to do something about it.
[1:05:42] And so those are the three tiers of actions
[1:05:45] that are set up for the well field
[1:05:47] that the management program
[1:05:49] that occurs after the project is implemented.
[1:05:53] And it starts with startup monitoring
[1:05:56] and updating the predictions.
[1:05:58] So when you put it in your first three or six wells,
[1:06:02] under data monitor for stress,
[1:06:04] we're gonna get a lot smarter
[1:06:06] in a hurry about how the aquifer behaves. And so we'll see if the rest of the wells need
[1:06:12] to be doomed for the moment. So that's the intention there. And then during operation there
[1:06:18] is also, there's a well-field, near-field, and far-field wells. And if everything proceeds
[1:06:25] in the green tone, nothing needs to happen. If something starts to raise a concern,
[1:06:31] 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?
[1:06:41] 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?
[1:06:53] And then ultimately, if there's a finding that we're not in safe field, then the state
[1:06:59] engineer wouldn't oppose a groundwater management plan.
[1:07:05] And then the different monitoring areas, I'll go through these quickly because I think
[1:07:10] what we're doing over time, the first is groundwater level monitoring.
[1:07:15] We've got a network that we've identified 32 target monitoring wells, seven of those
[1:07:20] are new, 25 are existing and would be retrofitted.
[1:07:24] There are all wells in the area that we think will be very useful to us, they can really
[1:07:29] no longer be used for supply, and we would collect data continuously from those wells
[1:07:34] using pressure sensors, which is called transducers, or and then coupled with annual measurements
[1:07:41] where our services tag with a well center.
[1:07:45] For spring flow depletion monitoring, we've identified 14 springs, Y-14.
[1:07:52] Why waste frames? Definitely. We anticipate that based on all the available data that we're
[1:08:00] not going to see impacts to the other 13 springs, but that's hard to crew conclusively because
[1:08:07] you need to pump an aquifer really hard and long before you would see any impact to over
[1:08:15] lines, springs and values. So, we don't think that's going to occur, but as a
[1:08:21] development, suspenders approach, there's a monitoring program that's been agreed
[1:08:25] to with PLM, that includes 14 springs. At each of those springs, we would do
[1:08:32] various different things. So, it'd be a combination of things depending on which
[1:08:36] string, but they include pizometers, which are like smaller tubes, like small
[1:08:41] wells that are shallow just solely for the purpose of groundwater level measurement, level sensors
[1:08:47] and spring pools, flow meters, rain gauges, ET, that's a valuable transpiration, and that's
[1:08:55] the water that a plant uses, right? So I told you precipitation either gets used by plants,
[1:09:02] it goes back to the atmosphere or it evaporates from the surface. There are ways that you can evaluate
[1:09:08] that from satellite data and so that's the ET component and or photo values. So for things like
[1:09:17] sprints, photo points are great to take picture in the same direction every year and you see
[1:09:21] what the changes are. And so data there also is collected continually as well as annually. ET
[1:09:28] depletion, that's the free out of fights or the areas where the groundwater is shallow enough to
[1:09:34] where plants could depend on it.
[1:09:36] We proposed to adopt two reference plots
[1:09:39] on a two-lay valley and one south of severe lake.
[1:09:44] And so there, we would also measure the ET
[1:09:47] from satellite data.
[1:09:50] We would do photo points, we would measure soil moisture
[1:09:53] over time, and we would put in rain gauges.
[1:09:55] And again, that's continuous and annual.
[1:09:59] And then some scientists monitoring that is done
[1:10:03] with the installation of survey points basically.
[1:10:06] So, since I had monuments, there's some standard procedures
[1:10:10] for all of those.
[1:10:11] This is pretty simple.
[1:10:13] Usually can be done with a hand auger and a piece of rebar
[1:10:15] or it's going to put in like a Christy box
[1:10:19] or some kind of protected cover.
[1:10:21] And those are survey annually.
[1:10:24] And again, for all of those, there are triggers
[1:10:25] for escalation or, you know, re-light yellow light red light.
[1:10:30] And finally, next step, next on the agenda for the district, we understand is engineering
[1:10:36] design requests for qualifications and requests for proposals for engineering design.
[1:10:43] And so the key factors there from the groundwater resource impact assessment side is to make
[1:10:49] sure that that includes the adaptive management program elements, but that's considered
[1:10:54] in how the project design and phasing proceeds and address responded questions regarding
[1:11:04] those requirements and then other potential support that the district may need.
[1:11:10] There's the development of the monitoring mitigation and development management plans, then
[1:11:17] and the development of the monitoring networks,
[1:11:19] and what's important for them, we feel,
[1:11:24] and I managed to grow our sustainability agency
[1:11:28] in a rural area, and one of the things that's top of our agenda
[1:11:31] is we need to build a local capacity.
[1:11:33] You can't keep everything done by remote consultants,
[1:11:37] and we get that.
[1:11:38] So we want to engage with local resources,
[1:11:42] and knowledge transfer, and getting them trained,
[1:11:44] and doing the work so that we don't have to come out,
[1:11:46] do it for you all the time and I think there's a lot of capacity locally to do that and then academic
[1:11:52] partnerships I think would be a good solution for that as well and are really a kind of multi-faceted
[1:11:59] solution and for the baseline monitoring it's the same two things so that's that's all I have for you
[1:12:05] most there's any questions no thank you appreciate your time all the information is there any any
[1:12:12] Any questions on the board?
[1:12:16] Any other questions? Plenty of anybody? Partification?
[1:12:20] I have a question. How long do we plan on pump-a-water? 50 years and turn it off?
[1:12:29] No, no. The analysis, and I'm going to be Mike, you can explain that, about the analysis in the 50 years.
[1:12:36] 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.
[1:12:54] You have to approve a project for a certain finite amount of time, so you've got the approval for the first 50 years.
[1:13:02] 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.
[1:13:12] Although that would need to be evaluated and approved in a separate new fashion.
[1:13:16] At the same time your water supply and demand in the valley may change.
[1:13:22] So there's a number of things that you can't fully predict now.
[1:13:26] But we have to start somewhere in terms of a construct for the analysis.
[1:13:31] So we're hoping that the second coming, coming before 50 years, yeah, here we go.
[1:13:38] It's not in the analysis, good, yeah.
[1:13:41] Well, I can tell you from my conversations about this project, that some of the questions
[1:13:48] that that brings up are already being considered in Annabress, and the analysis of the base
[1:13:56] and response really gives us, I mean maybe we've raised this.
[1:14:03] Stimulate judgment for the water right says that the party does agree as to what the
[1:14:09] safety is and the project will allow us to figure that out and the safety yield could
[1:14:17] be more than 15,000 acre feet per year or it could be less than 18 and 15,000 feet per
[1:14:24] here but you're going to figure it out and the only way you can figure it out is to stress
[1:14:30] the offer.
[1:14:33] So the like the time, I guess, is to be determined by how much we stress the
[1:14:41] offer.
[1:14:44] This action approves the project for a 50 year period because you have to approve
[1:14:51] it for a certain period. Right. And any extraction beyond 50 years would
[1:15:00] 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
[1:15:31] And this country's only been around for 250 years, and the way it's going, I don't
[1:15:37] know how many people are heard here whether it will be around for another 200, it's not
[1:15:41] willing and willing, right?
[1:15:43] But the point being that you have to set some kind of reasonable cause-truck in order to put
[1:15:52] boundaries around understanding the impacts and understanding what the reasonable length of the
[1:15:58] right away granted us. And based on what we've done so far, what the VLM
[1:16:03] unjustified is 50 years.
[1:16:08] Hopefully not. I think that justifies the financial
[1:16:11] investment in the project too. So that's good enough for me. Thank you very
[1:16:18] much. Appreciate it. Thanks, Mike. I appreciate Mike and Pete and all their work
[1:16:22] and also for coming out here. They've made this on this project and really
[1:16:29] facilitated the structure, the bones, and the meat for the entire EIS, so everything that
[1:16:38] was, you know, permanent analyzed, there was a lot of, I would say, lesser things. I mean,
[1:16:43] everything is important, as far as what was analyzed, but when you consider water and the water is
[1:16:52] the life for everything and everything that is out there that is the major component for this
[1:16:57] 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
[1:17:05] helping us understand a little bit more in detail
[1:17:08] in EIS. So thanks again.
[1:17:11] Very informative. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, I feel privileged. Thank you. Thank you.
[1:17:18] 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
[1:17:29] this is an opportunity we're not saying that we would do this but this is
[1:17:37] progressing designed to allow you to form a team becomes more efficient we're
[1:17:43] not saying that this will be the process of the district of all those we
[1:17:48] get further into it we swap the option and then we need to have that in or we
[1:17:55] We need to have that given on our, you know, our bag of account,
[1:17:59] opportunity options, options, and so if we pass that,
[1:18:03] we don't use it a big deal.
[1:18:05] If you need it, it's useful.
[1:18:07] So, just recommend that everyone pass the resolution,
[1:18:10] and then we'll see where we go in real.
[1:18:14] And then you can clearly get that point of deciding which tool
[1:18:17] to use the board skill.
[1:18:19] Oh, we have board for users that choice.
[1:18:20] Yeah.
[1:18:21] Yes, it's just it's got to be in your purchasing policy, so it makes you want to sense
[1:18:28] sometimes.
[1:18:30] Mr. B resolution number 2026-8-20.
[1:18:35] Motion approved.
[1:18:38] Motion approved.
[1:18:40] The resolution number 2026-8-20.
[1:18:43] The resolution of the board of directors of Cedar Valley Water Conservancy,
[1:18:46] the adoptive progressive design bill,
[1:18:48] procurement procedures for the Klein Valley Works
[1:18:50] Plan project, and authorizing a two-stage solicitation
[1:18:54] for design billed services on the favor.
[1:18:57] I have that.
[1:18:58] Any opposed?
[1:19:00] Okay, we have that adopted.
[1:19:03] Let's go on to number 10, General Manager report.
[1:19:08] I think I've covered everything throughout the
[1:19:16] Okay,
[1:19:24] we will go back to the motion and a second of the aforementioned resolution of the 2026-8-20 to a roll call vote.
[1:19:32] All right, now we'll go back to General Manager's report, I still think I haven't thought
[1:19:49] of anything since that. Public education operation, I'd like to go over there.
[1:19:59] Okay, I hear
[1:20:00] There's nothing so, board members report anything to report by the board members.
[1:20:06] Hearing none, we'll go to the engineering report.
[1:20:10] Nothing.
[1:20:11] Man.
[1:20:12] I got a bunch of.
[1:20:13] I got a bunch of.
[1:20:14] No.
[1:20:14] The theater city had trouble with the water.
[1:20:15] Did we help them out?
[1:20:18] We.
[1:20:18] Not connected yet.
[1:20:20] We did.
[1:20:21] We did.
[1:20:21] Bucket across the road.
[1:20:22] As much as we can.
[1:20:24] We.
[1:20:24] We supplied our service right here.
[1:20:26] Okay.
[1:20:27] Can we get it?
[1:20:28] Yeah.
[1:20:29] What.
[1:20:29] We still have one.
[1:20:30] Yeah.
[1:20:30] Okay, I was just curious, the kids were saying they cut one of them on, or whatever.
[1:20:38] You want to just put your head to the pump, and do the backup, or pump it, and see it in a few minutes.
[1:20:47] Maybe if you want to, you can provide an update on where we're at in the inter-connection between systems.
[1:20:53] It's not happening fast enough.
[1:20:55] It's a discussion history, so like it's still three years away, and I didn't like that.
[1:21:05] You got things resolved though if you were around.
[1:21:08] I just got two things happening back to back, only one happened, not a big deal.
[1:21:13] Two years, large precinct wells, and then the whole truncline from the crutch tunnel filled
[1:21:37] Okay,
[1:21:41] our next meeting is scheduled for September 17th we make a conflict with that date so unless something comes up we may be
[1:21:50] 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.
[1:22:04] Okay.
[1:22:06] So do we need a close session?
[1:22:09] Do we need a close session or not?
[1:22:11] Yes.
[1:22:13] Okay.
[1:22:13] I'll turn it entertain a motion to go in a close session.
[1:22:17] one minute. One minute or closer. Oh yeah. I've heard that before.
[1:22:24] Most of the second to close
[1:22:25] our regular meeting going to close session. We'll do roll call votes. Paul.
[1:22:31] Hey, I say, I
[1:22:48] All right, we're going to put a section on.
[1:23:35] Hey, we were paying attention.
[1:23:36] Yes, you were.
[1:23:38] I can do it like that.
[1:23:39] Thank you.