1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,900 All right. Well, good morning, everybody. Thanks for joining. Again, my name is Blake Adams. 2 00:00:07,220 --> 00:00:12,260 And thank you for joining us for this public webinar for the Kaia Valley Basin Groundwater 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:20,900 Sustainability Agency. We're joined today by staff from Larry Walker Associates, 4 00:00:21,810 --> 00:00:28,220 who are on task to support this grant project that we have been awarded through CDFW. 5 00:00:31,470 --> 00:00:33,250 This is an hour-long session. 6 00:00:33,750 --> 00:00:38,790 At this current moment, just for a run of show, we have everyone muted, 7 00:00:39,010 --> 00:00:42,250 but there will be an opportunity at the end for discussion. 8 00:00:43,010 --> 00:00:46,430 But in the meantime, if you want to submit questions or comments 9 00:00:46,430 --> 00:00:50,610 or any technical issues through the chat, please do so. 10 00:00:52,510 --> 00:00:56,910 Yeah, and with that, I will let Audra, Ethan, and Christian take it away, 11 00:00:56,910 --> 00:01:00,490 introduce themselves and explain the goals for today. 12 00:01:01,450 --> 00:01:03,770 Great. Thank you so much, Blake. I appreciate it. 13 00:01:04,290 --> 00:01:08,950 Hey, everybody. My name is Audra Bardsley. I'm a senior scientist with Larry Walker Associates. 14 00:01:09,350 --> 00:01:14,750 We provide technical support to the UKIA Valley Basin GSA and are also assisting with 15 00:01:14,750 --> 00:01:20,470 technical support for the Interconnected Surface Water Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem 16 00:01:20,470 --> 00:01:24,950 Study. That's where we'll be talking about you today with you today at the webinar. 17 00:01:24,950 --> 00:01:29,370 So first, I want to thank everybody for taking time out of your schedule to be here. 18 00:01:29,810 --> 00:01:33,750 This will also be posted on the City of Ukaia's meeting website. 19 00:01:34,250 --> 00:01:38,950 So if there's anyone you think might be interested in seeing this content, please let them know 20 00:01:38,950 --> 00:01:43,330 that they can view it and then follow up with any comments or questions to Blake and 21 00:01:43,330 --> 00:01:43,610 to me. 22 00:01:43,950 --> 00:01:45,310 And our emails will be provided. 23 00:01:46,090 --> 00:01:50,270 With that, I will introduce quickly two of our key team members. 24 00:01:50,270 --> 00:01:58,090 Another Larry Walker associates project scientist, Ethan Brown, and then also from the biology 25 00:01:58,090 --> 00:02:03,310 side of this study, representing still water sciences, is Christian Broderick. 26 00:02:03,750 --> 00:02:09,470 And so we'll all be here to respond to your comments, field any questions. 27 00:02:10,150 --> 00:02:14,870 But before we do, we're going to kick it off to provide a sort of a status overview 28 00:02:14,870 --> 00:02:16,390 you of where we are in the project, 29 00:02:18,540 --> 00:02:19,580 where we're going, 30 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:21,800 and how you might provide some input. 31 00:02:23,420 --> 00:02:25,960 And so with that, let me go ahead and share my screen. 32 00:02:26,620 --> 00:02:27,540 Hopefully everybody can see that. 33 00:02:27,660 --> 00:02:27,820 OK. 34 00:02:29,180 --> 00:02:30,120 All right, perfect. 35 00:02:30,580 --> 00:02:32,720 So again, this is a California Department 36 00:02:33,660 --> 00:02:37,120 Efficient Wildlife-Funded Restoration Grant project. 37 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:41,780 So this project just kicked off in October 2025. 38 00:02:42,420 --> 00:02:43,900 So we're pleased to share with you 39 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:50,360 some of the progress that we've made so far and also again solicit some input. There will be more 40 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:56,060 opportunities to provide input in the future but we wanted to provide a public update at this stage 41 00:02:56,060 --> 00:03:02,640 as things are moving quickly and we've had some good progress so far. So to give you a sense, 42 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:07,480 again I'm going to give you a bit of an overview of the project goals, the status where we're 43 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:10,600 at as a team where we are in terms 44 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,680 of identifying areas of interest for the study 45 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,900 and deploying field equipment and surveys, 46 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,120 and then also get some input. 47 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:21,960 So you'll see there will be a couple 48 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:23,480 of different ways that you can provide input. 49 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,680 And so we're very happy to receive that 50 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,280 and include it as a consideration moving forward. 51 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,220 All right, so you've heard a little bit already 52 00:03:33,220 --> 00:03:34,680 about the study team. 53 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:41,660 So the lead agency for this project is the Yucaya Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency. 54 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:43,720 I took a look at the attendee list. 55 00:03:43,940 --> 00:03:47,500 Many of you are familiar with the GSA and the work that they do. 56 00:03:47,980 --> 00:03:52,320 General Manager here is Blake Adams, who you've probably seen at different meetings. 57 00:03:53,240 --> 00:04:00,900 And one of the key tasks for the GSA has been assembling a Groundwater Sustainability Plan 58 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:05,100 to meet Sustainable Groundwater Management Act requirements. 59 00:04:05,860 --> 00:04:08,420 So this is a, excuse me, this is 60 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:11,720 a medium priority basin. 61 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,320 Many of you are aware. 62 00:04:14,180 --> 00:04:17,280 And so there are certain management actions and goals 63 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:19,000 that the GSA needs to meet 64 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,760 to hopefully achieve sustainability 65 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,220 over a 20 year time horizon. 66 00:04:24,180 --> 00:04:27,540 And so this project actually works really nicely 67 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:30,760 in concert with some of the corrective actions 68 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,760 that Department of Water Resources recommended 69 00:04:34,510 --> 00:04:36,640 for the Groundwater Sustainability Agency 70 00:04:37,090 --> 00:04:38,460 in reviewing the GSP. 71 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,380 And so we'll talk a little bit more about that. 72 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,440 But for now, I do want to kind of reiterate, 73 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:45,960 this is a team. 74 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,060 So Larry Walker Associates is coming in 75 00:04:48,060 --> 00:04:49,800 as sort of leading the technical group, 76 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:53,060 but we're working in partnership with the GSA, 77 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,520 the other agencies that are members of the GSA. 78 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:58,620 And we also have, like I said, 79 00:04:58,620 --> 00:05:03,620 Christian from Stillwater Sciences. We have Daniel B. Stevens and Associates. It's going to be 80 00:05:03,620 --> 00:05:08,400 supporting us with database management, data management. And then we're also working with 81 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:14,220 some local partners, UC Cooperative Extension, Mendocino County, and the Mendocino County 82 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:20,940 Resource Conservation District in order to do land on our outreach and then some of the field 83 00:05:20,940 --> 00:05:21,880 support that we'll need. 84 00:05:24,660 --> 00:05:27,900 All right. So just to make sure we're all on the same page about 85 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:33,360 what area we're talking about as the scope of this study. And we start 86 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,940 describing that. So we're looking at the upper Russian River watershed really 87 00:05:38,940 --> 00:05:45,000 focusing sort of upstream north of Hopland and that Hopland gauge. So you 88 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:50,620 can see here in the map depicted the boundary of Yucaya Valley basin. So it's 89 00:05:50,620 --> 00:05:54,940 a sort of grayed out shaded area with a dark black boundary. Then you can 90 00:05:54,940 --> 00:06:01,020 the gray is the larger upper Russian river watershed. Now because this is being carried out by the 91 00:06:01,020 --> 00:06:07,820 groundwater sustainability agency and is inherently very focused on groundwater interaction with surface 92 00:06:07,820 --> 00:06:14,800 water, we're really focusing on reaches of tributaries in the main stem where we think 93 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,480 there's some interaction with groundwater. So this means well maybe upper reaches of the 94 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:25,000 tributary are very important for habitat for spawning of key species and the 95 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:31,880 like. Our focus will really be on tributary reaches within the basin 96 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,900 boundary and not too far outside the basin boundary where we think there 97 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:40,860 are still some groundwater influence. And so the purpose of this webinar again 98 00:06:40,860 --> 00:06:44,300 is to provide you all a bit of an update. Some of this some of you may 99 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:47,900 have heard already through our different outreach activities but to get 100 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:52,780 everybody up to seat in a basic way and then again to receive comments. Like Blake 101 00:06:52,780 --> 00:06:56,460 was indicating there's going to be opportunity to do that at the end of 102 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:01,840 this hour. We're going to have a live poll that you can take and then of course 103 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:08,180 you can always follow up by email to me and Blake. And again this is a non- 104 00:07:08,180 --> 00:07:13,340 Brown Act compliant meeting so we do ask that there's no conversation or 105 00:07:13,340 --> 00:07:20,660 discussion among attendees. So we do have an opportunity at the upcoming 106 00:07:20,660 --> 00:07:24,360 February 11th Technical Advisory Committee meeting, I believe that's from 107 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,800 1 to 3 p.m., where there will be opportunity for discussion among 108 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,960 tech members, additional public comments, and the like. So this is really 109 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:37,600 informational to the attendees and then for attendees to provide comment 110 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,160 and input to the technical team. 111 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:41,380 All right. 112 00:07:42,060 --> 00:07:45,020 So with that, let's talk about some of the study goals. 113 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,120 As you might have gathered from a title of the study, 114 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,260 we're really going to be focused on characterizing 115 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,060 interconnected surface waters. 116 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:54,840 So place is where there's exchange 117 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,520 between surface water and the groundwater aquifer, 118 00:07:58,020 --> 00:07:59,900 whether those are periods where there's 119 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:02,640 groundwater influence to streams and the means 120 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,340 down Russian River, where maybe we have periods 121 00:08:05,340 --> 00:08:10,360 of disconnection or we have actually infiltration or losing reaches of these 122 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:16,700 streams. We want to get a handle on kind of where this is happening over time 123 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:21,240 periods looking at time series and then thinking about how it's different across 124 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:25,040 different parts of the basin. There are a lot of data gaps that were 125 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:30,260 identified in the groundwater sustainability plan and so this is not 126 00:08:30,260 --> 00:08:36,260 intended to be a comprehensive look covering all of the different tributaries 127 00:08:36,260 --> 00:08:40,800 it will be selective but it will be an improvement on our current 128 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:46,880 understanding and I think that'll be a big benefit coming out of this study. So 129 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,100 in addition to kind of better understanding those hydrological 130 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:56,080 conditions we're hoping to also map and get a handle on the groundwater 131 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,100 water-dependent ecosystems. 132 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,240 So that's gonna mean riparian vegetation 133 00:08:59,710 --> 00:09:01,620 and then also different aquatic species 134 00:09:01,620 --> 00:09:03,080 like steelhead, for example, 135 00:09:03,820 --> 00:09:06,820 that are dependent on getting stream 136 00:09:06,820 --> 00:09:08,840 or stream reaches with an influx 137 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,080 of that nice cool groundwater-drived base flow 138 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:13,200 during certain periods 139 00:09:13,510 --> 00:09:16,520 or pools to sustain them over summer. 140 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:18,100 And then finally, 141 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,420 complementing these much more field-focused activities 142 00:09:22,420 --> 00:09:29,060 will be update and improvements of the integrated hydrologic model. So this was 143 00:09:29,060 --> 00:09:33,980 developed as part of the groundwater sustainability plan process and this 144 00:09:33,980 --> 00:09:38,740 provides a really good opportunity to update the model, recalibrate it with 145 00:09:38,740 --> 00:09:43,360 new information, so that it can better represent surface water-ground water 146 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:48,700 interactions in the face of things like climate change, changing management of 147 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:55,560 the Coyote Valley Dam and the like. And so again big benefits we see coming out 148 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:59,880 of this study are filling some of those big data gaps that were identified in 149 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:05,600 the GSP and addressing some of Department of Water Resources recommended 150 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:10,960 corrective actions surrounding the status of understanding for 151 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:18,120 interconnected surface waters. And again beyond that we think there could 152 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:26,900 be opportunities for this to help other agencies identify, say, restoration opportunities in 153 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:32,620 the future. But restoration in and of itself isn't necessarily the specific goal of this 154 00:10:32,620 --> 00:10:41,800 project. All right. So now that you have a better idea of some of the goals, the scope 155 00:10:42,500 --> 00:10:46,080 geographically of where the study will take place, let's talk more about the study 156 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:52,200 design and approach very briefly. So this is a very high level look. It's some of the key activities 157 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:58,400 that will be taking place as this study gets going and field work is completed. So I already 158 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,200 mentioned the modeling component and this table is really focused on what will be happening 159 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:08,120 in the field on the ground to gather more data and fill those data gaps that I just mentioned. 160 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:15,780 And so again, we will be targeting both sections of the main stem of the upper Russian river 161 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:17,660 and select tributaries. 162 00:11:18,060 --> 00:11:23,180 So we'll talk more about how we're determining which tributaries to focus on and how you 163 00:11:23,180 --> 00:11:24,000 can provide some input. 164 00:11:24,740 --> 00:11:30,840 So this will entail sort of as we mentioned before, biological, hydrological, so understanding 165 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:37,200 water levels and streams versus the groundwater aquifer, discharge measurements, stream morphology, 166 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:43,140 the shape of streams and geochemical, so using different tracers that are naturally occurring 167 00:11:43,140 --> 00:11:47,460 in the environment to complement those other measurements and understand when different 168 00:11:47,460 --> 00:11:52,600 sections of stream or river are likely needing groundwater or losing groundwater, losing 169 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,060 to the groundwater table I should say. 170 00:11:54,800 --> 00:12:00,420 So again, this is going to take place over a series of about two years and will involve 171 00:12:00,420 --> 00:12:05,280 multiple visits per year, particularly during the dry season. 172 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,280 So just to give you a sense of the kind of frequency we're thinking. 173 00:12:10,820 --> 00:12:11,200 All right. 174 00:12:11,540 --> 00:12:14,680 So I mentioned the fact that select tributaries will be targeted. 175 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:20,620 So how do we figure out which tributaries should be the focus of this particular study effort? 176 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:28,460 And so the team has started out working with the GSA, working with TAC members to 177 00:12:28,460 --> 00:12:34,340 receive one-on-one input, in order to start screening all of the major tributaries that 178 00:12:34,340 --> 00:12:37,240 or identified in the Operation River Basin 179 00:12:37,820 --> 00:12:41,160 to get sort of a preliminary area of interest list. 180 00:12:41,780 --> 00:12:43,600 We're also getting some tribal input 181 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,740 and today hoping to get some community input as well. 182 00:12:47,380 --> 00:12:49,400 And other opportunities like at the TAC meeting 183 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:50,280 coming up in February. 184 00:12:51,260 --> 00:12:53,660 So from there, we want to sort of get together 185 00:12:53,660 --> 00:12:57,200 a list of tributaries that everybody feels 186 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,540 pretty comfortable then prioritizing. 187 00:13:00,100 --> 00:13:02,040 And so there are a variety of different factors 188 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,340 we'll take into consideration. 189 00:13:03,340 --> 00:13:08,720 We'll talk about that in more detail towards the end of this presentation, but we're thinking 190 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:15,860 things about like, is there habitat in this location along a tributary? 191 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,380 Have there been key species identified in those locations? 192 00:13:20,180 --> 00:13:22,180 What are some of the key watershed characteristics? 193 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:24,540 Are those amenable to the study? 194 00:13:24,980 --> 00:13:26,160 And then also, is there access? 195 00:13:26,820 --> 00:13:30,820 That's going to be really, really important as partnership with landowners in order 196 00:13:30,820 --> 00:13:38,160 to gain access and of course do so safely. So again once we get this list of sites that we think 197 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:44,960 is a good starting point, then prioritization will happen and land on our outreach. Again, 198 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,660 local partners are absolutely essential to the success of this study. 199 00:13:51,970 --> 00:13:52,430 All right. 200 00:13:53,470 --> 00:13:56,770 So now that you have a bit of an idea about what the overall goals are, 201 00:13:57,350 --> 00:14:00,530 how some of these data might be collected, 202 00:14:00,730 --> 00:14:02,230 the general frequency, 203 00:14:02,810 --> 00:14:04,910 let's take a quick look at the near term timeline. 204 00:14:05,590 --> 00:14:07,030 So thinking about what has happened 205 00:14:07,030 --> 00:14:09,430 since sort of kickoff of the study took place 206 00:14:09,430 --> 00:14:12,790 in October 2025 and looking into the spring. 207 00:14:13,570 --> 00:14:17,470 And so you can see that we have had some communication 208 00:14:18,110 --> 00:14:21,250 about the study at a previous TAC meeting in October. 209 00:14:21,750 --> 00:14:25,150 We've been working closely with Blake and GSA staff 210 00:14:25,150 --> 00:14:27,710 in order to develop our approach and timeline. 211 00:14:28,510 --> 00:14:31,350 And then again, in December we worked hard to engage 212 00:14:31,350 --> 00:14:33,790 with the different technical advisory committee members 213 00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:36,810 in one-on-one meetings where we just received input 214 00:14:36,810 --> 00:14:40,970 from them and ideas and sort of got some more local input 215 00:14:40,970 --> 00:14:42,030 which was very helpful. 216 00:14:42,690 --> 00:14:45,030 And then now we're hosting this public webinar 217 00:14:45,030 --> 00:14:50,130 to share some of our initial summarized areas 218 00:14:50,130 --> 00:14:51,710 of interest and receive some feedback. 219 00:14:51,710 --> 00:14:56,610 So next steps again will be sharing additional information at the upcoming 220 00:14:56,610 --> 00:14:59,630 TAAC meeting and conducting some field reconnaissance. 221 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:06,980 So that we can start really tackling the site prioritization and then start reaching out to landowners 222 00:15:06,980 --> 00:15:13,500 and local partners who are willing to work with us to allow for instrument installation and monitoring 223 00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:21,720 to take place on their properties. And then we're hoping by sort of spring that we can have 224 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:28,040 instrumentation in place, so sensors, monitors that will be operating over the duration of the study 225 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:29,860 so we can begin data collection. 226 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,780 That's really one of the key pieces of this study. 227 00:15:34,940 --> 00:15:35,440 All right. 228 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,960 So again, let's talk a bit about the areas of interest 229 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:40,780 that are on our list so far 230 00:15:41,220 --> 00:15:44,000 and how you might feel about them 231 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,180 and we might think about them 232 00:15:45,180 --> 00:15:47,320 and we'll tee up at the end of this presentation 233 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,260 for you all to provide some input. 234 00:15:51,180 --> 00:15:54,720 And so in order to develop this preliminary list, 235 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:56,840 you can see the creeks highlighted here 236 00:15:57,300 --> 00:15:58,520 in the map that I'm displaying. 237 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:03,920 So they cover different parts of the basin, sort of some more in the south, 238 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:09,140 some more in the north. We have some east and west representation. So we went 239 00:16:09,140 --> 00:16:14,320 through and reviewed GSA documents, comment letters, where the monitoring 240 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,360 network had coverage, what the model showed in terms of areas that have 241 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:22,300 data gaps. We also went through state and federal databases that provided 242 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:27,080 its information on biology, habitat, ecology for the area, 243 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:29,700 tried to find any information that 244 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:32,420 was present about historical studies, fish counts, 245 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,960 fish surveys, restoration efforts that 246 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,260 had been undertaken in this watershed area, 247 00:16:37,660 --> 00:16:40,720 and also, of course, having these one-on-one TAC meetings. 248 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,580 So we did successfully speak with all but one 249 00:16:44,580 --> 00:16:45,440 member of the TAC. 250 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,240 So we felt quite pleased with that 251 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:54,460 and definitely still open to having more conversations if needed and we got 252 00:16:54,460 --> 00:16:58,800 some good feedback that was very helpful. We also just yesterday had a 253 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:03,040 meeting with the Pinoleville Polo Nation, we gathered some input and we're 254 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,680 hoping to have a couple more meetings to receive information moving forward. 255 00:17:07,620 --> 00:17:12,340 And so the outcome of that and where we are right now is that tributaries 256 00:17:12,340 --> 00:17:17,500 of interest, again, we're looking mostly at reaches that we think have 257 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:20,220 of some groundwater interaction or dependence 258 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:25,580 being Forsythe, Ackerman, Robinson, McNabb, 259 00:17:26,100 --> 00:17:27,540 Mill and Morrison. 260 00:17:28,140 --> 00:17:30,840 So again, you can see some of the geographic distribution 261 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,420 across the basin and the valley here. 262 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,720 And we're hoping that from this list 263 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,060 of approximately six tributaries 264 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,360 that we'll be able to actually deploy instruments 265 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:46,580 and have field surveys at probably three to four sites. 266 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:58,400 And so we're also, as I mentioned, going to be performing some investigation of the main SEM and our target is for about four sites distributed through the main SEM. 267 00:17:58,780 --> 00:18:10,720 But those are to be determined because that will be somewhat contingent upon what tributaries end up being targeted after we go through the prioritization and landowner outreach process. 268 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:16,400 and there's a little bit better public access along the main stem compared to tributaries. 269 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,060 That gives you a sense for how many sites this study will be targeting. 270 00:18:23,470 --> 00:18:28,890 All right, so I mentioned the fact that we have right now these six sites that we've identified as, 271 00:18:29,270 --> 00:18:34,130 sorry tributaries that we've identified as sort of areas of interest where we think there could be some reaches 272 00:18:34,130 --> 00:18:40,790 along those tributaries that could be potentially good candidates for this investigation. 273 00:18:40,790 --> 00:18:51,350 So what our intention is, once there's sort of buy-in from the TAC, we receive a bit more input from the attendees at this webinar. 274 00:18:52,050 --> 00:19:02,810 Anyone else who wants to comment is go through and rank the different identified tributaries according to these different factors. 275 00:19:04,210 --> 00:19:09,590 This is a lot of information, but the main thing we wanted to share was that we have, 276 00:19:09,670 --> 00:19:15,150 again, much like that Venn diagram I showed in the beginning, we have ecological considerations, 277 00:19:16,270 --> 00:19:23,430 we have sort of watershed characteristic, hydrological considerations incorporated here in the geomorphic 278 00:19:23,430 --> 00:19:26,490 and hydrologic considerations, and then we also have feasibility. 279 00:19:27,150 --> 00:19:30,750 Again, community partnership is going to be so important for actually being able 280 00:19:30,750 --> 00:19:35,130 to get on the ground, carry out this investigation, and then also, of course, health and safety. 281 00:19:36,130 --> 00:19:41,770 And so our hope is that we can go through and systematically rank after collecting some more 282 00:19:41,770 --> 00:19:46,850 information through sort of these preliminary field surveys and observations, talking 283 00:19:46,850 --> 00:19:54,730 to more, talking to more locals, and then also receiving additional feedback and performing 284 00:19:54,730 --> 00:19:58,390 some additional desktop exercises, we can go through and rank and have a priority 285 00:19:58,390 --> 00:20:05,210 list and that priority list will inform how we approach landowner outreach. So 286 00:20:05,210 --> 00:20:11,730 what we're going to do next is allow all the attendees the opportunity to sort of 287 00:20:11,730 --> 00:20:19,090 express which tributaries they think are the top two in their mind and which 288 00:20:19,090 --> 00:20:22,910 factors are maybe the top two most important in their mind. So I'm going 289 00:20:22,910 --> 00:20:32,690 actually pause here and hand it over to my colleague Ethan who is going to share a survey. 290 00:20:33,310 --> 00:20:39,750 I'm going to show quickly one more item Ethan actually and then I will pass it on over. 291 00:20:40,650 --> 00:20:48,530 So what we've done is we've set up a online polling system where attendees can log on 292 00:20:48,530 --> 00:20:56,550 And again, you'll see a really simple series of two surveys where you can indicate those top two for the tributaries and the factors. 293 00:20:57,370 --> 00:21:05,810 And again, this is just going to be a very simple way to sort of get a sense for where interest lies from community members and interested parties. 294 00:21:06,250 --> 00:21:09,690 And then you can provide more detailed feedback. 295 00:21:10,390 --> 00:21:14,530 there's also the option to say other. If you feel there's a factor that is not 296 00:21:14,530 --> 00:21:20,050 being considered or a tributary that you think should be on this list and want to 297 00:21:20,050 --> 00:21:24,150 share why, there's also the opportunity to do that. So this is not a decision 298 00:21:24,150 --> 00:21:33,310 making point. This is not anything where it's a hard and fast, you know, pivot 299 00:21:33,310 --> 00:21:36,410 that we'll make, but we're going to consider all this information as we 300 00:21:36,410 --> 00:21:40,950 move forward. And so again, I'm going to hand it over to Ethan, and we'll put this in the chat. 301 00:21:41,410 --> 00:21:48,970 But if you can navigate over to menti.com and enter this code, that will take you to the set 302 00:21:48,970 --> 00:21:53,530 of two surveys that we've set up for you to complete, and we'll be able to share the 303 00:21:53,530 --> 00:21:54,870 live results with this group. 304 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,040 Thanks, Audra. Actually, if you want to leave your screen 305 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:05,940 shared just a little longer, we'll give people some time to navigate over there. 306 00:22:07,180 --> 00:22:10,420 And I did put this information in the chat, too. 307 00:22:10,860 --> 00:22:16,140 I'll share my screen that will take us over to the Mentimeter questions, 308 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:18,080 just so you know you're in the right spot. 309 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,280 But you'll be answering these questions through your Internet browser windows. 310 00:22:37,730 --> 00:22:42,350 And I do see that there was a question in the chat from Glenn McGority 311 00:22:42,350 --> 00:22:47,950 regarding ranking of all the trips for their potential water volume contribution. 312 00:22:47,950 --> 00:22:57,310 Not directly. One of the factors that is included is kind of persistence of summertime flows. 313 00:22:57,990 --> 00:23:03,890 So that will be considered, but absolute volume is not directly considered. 314 00:23:04,310 --> 00:23:17,930 We do take into account other things too, like kind of lateral connectivity to the hyena. 315 00:23:17,930 --> 00:23:22,250 of being collected? Where are there data gaps in the model or the monitoring network for 316 00:23:22,250 --> 00:23:28,130 the GSA? Where do maybe partner agencies or others in the basin already collect data? 317 00:23:28,610 --> 00:23:34,530 All of those elements would be considered, but not strictly total water volume, I think. 318 00:23:34,890 --> 00:23:39,550 And certainly other teammates, please speak up if you have other comments on that. 319 00:24:03,010 --> 00:24:03,170 Did 320 00:24:03,170 --> 00:24:04,210 we lose Ethan? 321 00:24:11,540 --> 00:24:15,200 Those look, Audrey, like we've lost Ethan for the moment. 322 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:16,460 Okay. 323 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:17,740 You should be able. 324 00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:21,340 I can also potentially log on if needed, but let me see. 325 00:24:22,380 --> 00:24:23,920 Hopefully he'll rejoin us in just a moment. 326 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:57,800 You think everyone, please bear with us as we get our team member logged back on. 327 00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:00,320 It looks like he should be joining in just a moment. 328 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:02,920 And there he is. 329 00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:06,600 So I'm going to go ahead and promote him to panelists. 330 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,440 Next, you should be rejoining us. 331 00:25:27,980 --> 00:25:29,520 Can you hear me? 332 00:25:30,980 --> 00:25:35,900 Do you want to stop sharing your screen and I'll try that again. 333 00:25:39,420 --> 00:25:41,080 Yes, I can stop sharing my screen. 334 00:25:41,620 --> 00:25:44,280 And I apologize Glen, I just saw your comments. 335 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:54,560 I think that's a good piece of feedback and we will, there is somewhat limited information 336 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,800 on flow for some of the tributaries. 337 00:25:57,020 --> 00:25:59,760 But I do think through talking to local folks 338 00:26:00,260 --> 00:26:02,600 and then doing some field reconnaissance, 339 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,780 that can be something that we do at least characterize. 340 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,420 So we understand what the spread 341 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,780 of the relative size of the tributaries are 342 00:26:09,780 --> 00:26:12,040 as we go through prioritization process. 343 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:13,760 I think that's a good comment. 344 00:26:49,060 --> 00:26:53,160 Okay, so it seems like results are in. 345 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,160 We'll switch to the next question here 346 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,800 and have you guys answer that one as well. 347 00:27:02,620 --> 00:27:08,500 We would definitely ask if you indicated other on either one of these two surveys, 348 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:15,100 please do let us know what you think the alternative should be if you have an opinion there. 349 00:27:29,690 --> 00:27:34,690 Whoops, and you guys are actually allowed to select two answers for this question as well. 350 00:27:34,790 --> 00:27:39,190 We wanted to broaden that breach a little bit. 351 00:27:39,190 --> 00:27:42,930 so the two most important factors contributing to a tributary score. 352 00:27:54,380 --> 00:28:00,500 We'll say again hydrologic nexus is sort of where does this location fit in terms of existing monitoring 353 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:07,940 networks or efforts, areas where there are maybe data gaps indicated from the monitoring network 354 00:28:07,940 --> 00:28:12,860 or the model, things like that. Sort of how does it fit within our existing understanding 355 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:14,720 and efforts to monitor? 356 00:28:28,450 --> 00:28:31,410 Okay, so we just got a question from Chris Watt in the chat 357 00:28:31,410 --> 00:28:38,070 But asking whether the focus of the ISW project is solely on the effect on species, also look 358 00:28:38,070 --> 00:28:41,170 at where impacts on flow may be the most significant. 359 00:28:42,050 --> 00:28:50,210 I think for this effort and because of the data gaps that we mentioned for the basin, 360 00:28:50,590 --> 00:28:58,410 we're aiming to identify locations where we can get information ideally on both factors. 361 00:28:58,410 --> 00:29:05,630 some kind of the hydrologic watershed function side and also on the organism 362 00:29:05,630 --> 00:29:13,890 side and riparian vegetation side and again if anybody feels differently from 363 00:29:13,890 --> 00:29:19,950 our team please speak up but I think the goals are hopefully hit both and we 364 00:29:19,950 --> 00:29:25,610 think if we identify ultimately three to four locations that should hopefully 365 00:29:25,610 --> 00:29:26,230 be possible. 366 00:29:29,210 --> 00:29:33,850 And again, we may get unexpected results. That's definitely a possibility. 367 00:29:36,010 --> 00:29:40,170 Okay, depletion and consideration. Ah, okay, so we had a follow-up question from Chris, 368 00:29:40,690 --> 00:29:45,090 asking if that's the case, should areas with the highest potential for depletion be a consideration? 369 00:29:48,450 --> 00:29:56,270 That is an interesting question. I think as I consider that potential for depletion 370 00:29:57,130 --> 00:29:59,770 Might also sort of correspond with areas. 371 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:05,820 That still do have some persistent summer flow, which is one of the factors that's considered, 372 00:30:06,140 --> 00:30:13,120 because if there is flow persisting into the dry season, and we think that perhaps groundwater 373 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:20,760 is contributing to that base flow to an extent that there's more potential for altering the hydrology 374 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:29,120 there if conditions in the basin change or climate changes, for example. So I think the hope 375 00:30:29,620 --> 00:30:31,120 Is that somewhat captured? 376 00:30:31,420 --> 00:30:33,920 But I think that's still good feedback and something to consider. 377 00:30:34,660 --> 00:30:39,420 The other thing is that we're hoping that through improving – and then, Christian, I'm going to pass it after you – 378 00:30:39,420 --> 00:30:47,980 through improving the model, too, we'll start to get a better understanding of where and what areas are more vulnerable to depletion. 379 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:48,760 Christian, please. 380 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:54,700 You just said what I was going to say, which is that the model, which is kind of going to 381 00:30:54,700 --> 00:31:00,100 come at the end of the study, as a sort of culmination of the study, would it be the best 382 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:01,980 place to answer that part of the question? 383 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:03,460 So that's something that, 384 00:31:05,580 --> 00:31:13,780 unless folks have some informed guesses, otherwise that's 385 00:31:13,780 --> 00:31:17,040 something that we probably wouldn't know necessarily with a lot of confidence until 386 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:22,740 the settings. Well in Chris did note that we could consider areas with high 387 00:31:22,740 --> 00:31:28,420 summer ground water extraction and that can definitely be at least something we 388 00:31:28,420 --> 00:31:35,820 consider and take a look at because we'd also think about main stem 389 00:31:35,820 --> 00:31:41,860 application of that concept to main stem site selection and we do have 390 00:31:41,860 --> 00:31:50,340 information about the location and some of the pumping for public supply wells. 391 00:31:50,940 --> 00:31:57,280 We have some improved understanding of where agricultural wells are located through the 392 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,680 effort for well inventory, and we're going to be working on that. 393 00:32:02,060 --> 00:32:05,580 So that is a good consideration, thank you for bringing that up. 394 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,780 And that is certainly something we can take a look at as we go through and rank. 395 00:32:09,780 --> 00:32:11,000 Thanks Chris. 396 00:32:13,780 --> 00:32:18,900 I'm just I'm just jumping in just for time management we have 22 397 00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:25,740 minutes remaining in the session so just for just keeping us honest there. Great 398 00:32:25,740 --> 00:32:30,220 thanks so much Blake and after this we're opening it up for conversation so 399 00:32:30,220 --> 00:32:31,220 that actually sounds great. 400 00:32:33,660 --> 00:32:36,280 Yeah I think we might be there Audra looks like most 401 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:44,000 people have weighed in here and really interesting. Just kind of live look, first look at some 402 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:52,020 of the results. There's definitely some obvious areas that have risen to the top for the majority 403 00:32:52,020 --> 00:33:01,440 of folks. So we will log these results moving forward and I will stop sharing and pass 404 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:01,940 it back. 405 00:33:04,820 --> 00:33:15,180 We'll have an update. Yeah, thanks so much, Ethan. And we'll have an update on the prioritization approach at the TAC meeting that's coming up on February 11th. 406 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:29,860 All right. So thank you everybody so much for taking time to share your thoughts. And we are actually, as I said, moving on to the last portion of this presentation. 407 00:33:29,860 --> 00:33:34,120 So really, this is opening it up to receive comments or feedback. 408 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:39,380 We already heard a bit from some attendees about some things they think 409 00:33:39,380 --> 00:33:42,340 could possibly be considered as we go through prioritization. 410 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:43,500 We really appreciate that. 411 00:33:44,140 --> 00:33:49,320 And so, again, I think Blake is able to shift everyone over so that 412 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,560 they're able to raise their hands and speak. 413 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:52,540 It's one way. 414 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,340 If you want to provide a comment in the chat, please do so, 415 00:33:56,340 --> 00:34:02,020 just like Chris did and Glenn did. Other options are again emailing Blake and me. 416 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,900 Now there's a follow-up if you think of something else you'd like to share. 417 00:34:06,780 --> 00:34:10,220 And again, for anyone you think would like to view this presentation, 418 00:34:10,620 --> 00:34:16,560 they can head over to the City of Ukaia meetings website and view a recording. 419 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,360 So it might take a little time to get this uploaded, but that'll be there. 420 00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:23,580 And again, they can absolutely email us with any input. 421 00:34:24,140 --> 00:34:32,500 And I know I said this many times at this point, but we do have that upcoming technical advisory committee meeting on the 11th from 1 to 3. 422 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,260 And this will be one of the topics that's covered. 423 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:36,800 All right. 424 00:34:37,420 --> 00:34:42,660 And as of now, all participants are allowed to talk. 425 00:34:42,980 --> 00:34:46,580 You will need to unmute yourself if you wish to. 426 00:34:46,580 --> 00:34:52,000 So, to start, we look at, I'm seeing Chris Watt has raised his hand. 427 00:34:52,420 --> 00:34:57,060 So, yeah, model the way, Chris, just unmute yourself and go ahead. 428 00:34:59,250 --> 00:35:00,590 Yeah, that would be quick. 429 00:35:00,870 --> 00:35:02,650 Yeah, thanks for the presentation. 430 00:35:02,890 --> 00:35:05,070 Appreciate the hard work you guys are doing on this. 431 00:35:05,150 --> 00:35:08,310 And I know you're under a tight timeline and have limited resources, 432 00:35:08,830 --> 00:35:10,610 which is kind of the nature of my question. 433 00:35:10,610 --> 00:35:27,070 It seems to me that this project may unintentionally spend grant resources on stream reaches, which are unlikely to be affected by dry season groundwater pumping or significant lowering of the water table. 434 00:35:27,070 --> 00:35:36,430 So I think there needs to be a cross check with the tributary characteristics against 435 00:35:37,390 --> 00:35:43,430 areas that are expected to have higher groundwater pumping and that needs to be a factor. 436 00:35:44,350 --> 00:35:52,330 To me, it doesn't make sense to select a tributary for study when it hasn't been checked to see if 437 00:35:52,330 --> 00:35:57,170 it is likely to be affected by groundwater pumping based on our knowledge to date. 438 00:35:57,830 --> 00:35:58,150 Thank you. 439 00:36:00,020 --> 00:36:00,900 Thank you, Chris. 440 00:36:01,020 --> 00:36:02,800 I think that is a good consideration. 441 00:36:04,060 --> 00:36:10,020 And some of this is, again, the challenge of data gaps, but I think that's a clear 442 00:36:10,020 --> 00:36:16,060 way cross-checking against our understanding of current groundwater demands within the 443 00:36:16,060 --> 00:36:20,660 basin, the locations of those, the intensity, again, within our understanding or current 444 00:36:20,660 --> 00:36:21,120 understanding. 445 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,320 That seems like a very reasonable thing to do. 446 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:24,980 Appreciate that feedback. 447 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,220 All right, and I apologize, everyone. 448 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,000 I saw Glenn McGarty's hand for... 449 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,560 I don't know Blake if you saw that first, too. 450 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,860 Yeah, I saw Glenn's hand go up first, 451 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,620 and then we have Steve and Maple's second. 452 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,480 So, Glenn, why don't you go ahead 453 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,420 and unmute yourself and have the mic. 454 00:36:44,940 --> 00:36:45,940 Perfect. Are we okay? 455 00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:47,480 We can. 456 00:36:48,140 --> 00:36:50,500 So, just to follow up on what Chris had to say, 457 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,540 I think about Gibson Creek and Doolin Creek 458 00:36:52,540 --> 00:36:54,400 going right across, you know, 459 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,680 some of the most heavily pumped areas and there is significant water that flows 460 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:04,920 through those. The city of Ucaja has expressed interest in acquiring those 461 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:10,760 watersheds and I just wondered where you think they fit in priorities. I've 462 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:15,940 actually seen salmones in those creeks and I just wondered if that's 463 00:37:15,940 --> 00:37:20,620 something that is overlooked or why you didn't consider them to be more 464 00:37:20,620 --> 00:37:26,620 closely studied. So as of now those were not included in the areas of interest 465 00:37:26,620 --> 00:37:36,020 due to indications that there were fish barriers at some key locations within 466 00:37:36,020 --> 00:37:41,880 each of those streams. So they were not included. If you feel very differently and 467 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:47,260 have other descriptions of the salmonella observations, please do share 468 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:55,660 But due to those facts, we decided that they were not in the top six and based on discussion with other folks. 469 00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,920 Christian, I don't know if you have any other input you want to share there. 470 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:12,240 No, I think that was basically when we talked in our conversations with people that didn't 471 00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:20,780 really come up as important GDE streams, I think we could – I don't think it would 472 00:38:20,780 --> 00:38:30,700 be a problem to add them to our ranking system and put them in the same pot with everything 473 00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:37,540 else and because they're doing the ranking is relatively painless. I think we can definitely 474 00:38:37,540 --> 00:38:43,900 add them and put them in the same scoring system as everything else and see where they come out. 475 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:52,700 The lateral connectivity I think was the longitudinal connectivity was the main thing. 476 00:38:55,540 --> 00:38:59,020 But our understanding of that right now is mostly anecdotal as well. 477 00:38:59,020 --> 00:39:01,360 So we'd have to dive into that a little bit more. 478 00:39:02,460 --> 00:39:09,220 That makes sense because those water sheds have been very heavily and negatively altered, 479 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,540 like going through tunnels and those sorts of things. 480 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,280 But I have seen fish, so I know they're there. 481 00:39:19,220 --> 00:39:27,160 Yeah. I mean, I think that that would make sense to add one to the list. 482 00:39:30,020 --> 00:39:31,140 Great. Thank you. 483 00:39:31,140 --> 00:39:32,180 And 484 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:38,220 next up we have Steven Mables, who's got his hand raised. Go ahead, Steven. 485 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:46,660 Hi, thanks Blake. Thanks, Adjo. Christian, this is really, really great to see this work sort of unfold. 486 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:57,760 I just wanted to follow up on Chris Watts' comment about where to allocate our focus on stream reaches that are likely to be impacted by groundwater pumping. 487 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:04,920 I just wanted to mention that the the USGS study and the associated GS flow model that has been 488 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:10,780 underdeveloped for the better part of a decade has finally been published and the model files are 489 00:40:10,780 --> 00:40:18,360 available along with the paper, the journal article and the supplementary material. So 490 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:24,120 as part of that study they did a streamflow capture analysis where they analyzed throughout 491 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:28,260 at the entire watershed, the relative impact of groundwater 492 00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:29,960 pumping on surface water. 493 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,380 And of course, this is a regional study. 494 00:40:33,620 --> 00:40:36,140 It's not specifically focused on the Ukiah Basin. 495 00:40:36,260 --> 00:40:39,020 So there's some ticket with a grain of salt, of course. 496 00:40:39,260 --> 00:40:43,520 But I think this could be a useful tool, potentially, 497 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:48,360 to figure out how to allocate focus 498 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,240 on certain portions of the watershed 499 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:52,340 on the groundwater basin. 500 00:40:52,340 --> 00:40:55,300 So I'll provide a link to that in the chat here. 501 00:40:56,340 --> 00:40:56,920 Thank you. 502 00:40:57,180 --> 00:40:59,280 Thanks so much for the comment and mentioning that. 503 00:40:59,540 --> 00:41:05,700 Laurel Ford is the paper a couple of days ago, and we were very excited to see that the regional model has been released. 504 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,480 I know that we've spoken with Stoma Water about that and the timing. 505 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,340 So that was really nice to see and also very timely for this investigation. 506 00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:20,600 So thank you so much for pointing that out and also highlighting the stream flow capture analysis. 507 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:26,700 We will take a look at that and certainly be interested to have follow-up conversations. 508 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:28,820 Great. Thank you so much. 509 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:29,760 Thank you. 510 00:41:48,810 --> 00:41:51,610 I'm not seeing any additional hands raised this time. 511 00:41:53,330 --> 00:42:01,230 Do we have any, anyone else that would like to discuss suggestions, concerns, ideas, 512 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,620 or additional questions for our technical staff? 513 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,660 please feel free to just unmute yourself and speak it well. 514 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,400 This is Laurel. I have a question. 515 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:24,340 When you're talking about habitat and use of the stream by co-water fish, 516 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,300 are you talking about just the section of it that's in the groundwater basin? 517 00:42:29,300 --> 00:42:36,000 because it's been pretty well documented that most of the rearing habitat, for 518 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:42,640 example, or steelhead is upstream of that area. So I'm kind of curious what 519 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:48,520 function you see the portions of these tributaries in the valley, you know, in 520 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:56,980 the alluvial valley being documented through this study. Yeah, I think 521 00:42:56,980 --> 00:43:01,760 I think there's two things that these reaches could provide 522 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,520 different types of, like it could be reaches that are both 523 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:09,680 reaches of upstream and downstream passage or reaches where 524 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:16,720 steelhead are, there may be some spawning occurring 525 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:20,560 and then they grow and then they start to go upstream 526 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:22,840 or downstream to where the app data is better. 527 00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:35,360 But one of the challenges we've faced in trying to put that together is just the lack of data and sort of the lack of recent data. 528 00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:45,920 I'm looking at the usage of these streams by different fish and there's been some, you know, in many of these reaches folks will say, 529 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:51,180 well I've seen fish there or you know there you know there is a persistent there's a persistent 530 00:43:51,180 --> 00:43:59,280 flow in the summer sometimes and fish will use it and so we're just trying we're our our goals to 531 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:08,080 sort of understand as best we can how the reaches within the within the groundwater basin 532 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:14,080 are being used and and not and you know with a main focus on summer rearing because that's the 533 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:23,520 main one tied to the groundwater, but also, you know, for other life stages of the fish 534 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:23,900 as well, 535 00:44:26,530 --> 00:44:29,470 where groundwater could still be a little – could still be somewhat important. 536 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:34,060 Thank you, Reynolds. 537 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:36,080 Thanks for the question, Laurel. 538 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:45,360 Blake, maybe we can stay on a little bit longer and just reiterate, please do reach out 539 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:45,800 to me. 540 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:46,920 Mm-hmm. 541 00:44:47,180 --> 00:44:51,660 And Blake, by email, I'll put our email addresses again in the chat. 542 00:44:52,180 --> 00:44:58,440 And if, you know, well, we'll stay on on the meeting a little bit longer if other questions come to mind. That sounds good. 543 00:44:59,180 --> 00:44:59,580 Yeah. 544 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,820 We will try to get the webinar recording posted as quickly as we can. We're sort of reliant 545 00:45:06,820 --> 00:45:13,940 on Zoom and how quickly that is developed. It usually takes about a day, not much longer 546 00:45:13,940 --> 00:45:22,080 than that. So we will post that on the City of Ukaia's website under meetings. And if we 547 00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:26,540 have the ability, we will also forward that link to the participants as well so folks 548 00:45:26,540 --> 00:45:28,740 can quickly find that information. 549 00:45:30,020 --> 00:45:35,160 But if there's any other additional questions or comments or concerns, you can as always 550 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:42,140 email myself and Audra, thank you, she just put the contact information in there. 551 00:45:42,300 --> 00:45:47,420 You can contact myself or Audra and we're happy to follow up. 552 00:45:49,810 --> 00:45:50,290 That's great. 553 00:45:50,470 --> 00:45:50,950 Thanks so much, Blake. 554 00:45:54,380 --> 00:45:57,160 And thank you all for joining us today. 555 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:03,440 It looks like we're concluding today's presentation, and yeah, we'll be in touch. 556 00:46:03,580 --> 00:46:03,980 Thank you all. 557 00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:05,460 Great. 558 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:06,020 Thanks, everybody.