January 2, 2019 at 5:00 PM - Water Committee Meeting
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1. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
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2. REGULATORY
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2.A. GROUND WATER MANAGEMENT AREA
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2.A.1. Variance and Well Permit Extension
Rationale:
Tim Shanahan has submitted to the District a variance extension request for his application LPN-V-017-0454 in Section 28-T16N-R7E, Saunders County. The application for a new well to irrigate 135 acres was approved 11/13/2017 and letters were sent 11/15/2017. Mr. Shanahan feels that the letter was lost in the mail.
Tim Shanahan was present at the Committee meeting and realized that it was his responsibility to followup on his variance request. He explained that the well and irrigation equipment would be installed before the 2019 irrigation season. Staff and Committee discussed if the mail service can be an excuse. Other discussion was about the 2017 variances and that variances prior to 2017 should not be approved in these circumstances. Staff will do a better job on following up on variances and well permits, so maybe this situation will not happen again.
Recommended Motion(s):
To allow an extension to Tim Shanahan for Variance LPN-V-017-0454 in Section 28-T16N-R7E in Saunders County. Passed with a motion by Board Member #1 and a second by Board Member #2.
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2.A.2. Variance Requests in the Non-Hydrologically Connected Area (Normal Development Area)
Rationale:
Joe Houska has declined Variance LPN-V-013-0362, which was approved at the October 2018 Board Meeting. Attached is a list of variances for the Committee to consider, if they would like to approve other variances. Staff will have a couple of options for the Committee to consider.
Committee will look at the variances that were not approved at the January Committee Meeting. They also directed staff to re-evaluate James Penne Jr application, which was denied because of over 20% Class 6 and HEL soils.
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2.A.3. Well Permit Program
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2.A.3.a. Well Permits Approved
Rationale:
Wells Permits Approved: #
The total number of approved permits for 2018 is #
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2.A.4. Fremont-Dodge County Drainage Improvement Options
Rationale:
There will be much discussion in the near future between the NRD, City of Fremont and Dodge County regarding drainage from the City of Fremont to the east in Dodge County. Mountford has sent out information on the topic via email, it will be discussed in all three committee's and it's attached, please review.
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2.A.5. Lower Platte River Basin Water Management Plan Coalition (LPRBC)
Rationale:
The technical group has met a couple of times to discuss online reporting, which HDR has been working on. The plan is to have online reporting available by February 1, 2019. This will cut down on the size of the written IMP reports that are due March 1. The written report will just be a summary without the specific details on acre feet consumptions. A management meeting is planned for April to review the IMP reports.
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2.A.6. Cost Share Programs
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2.A.6.a. Irrigation Well Sample Kits
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2.A.6.b. Flow Meter Maintenance Program
Rationale:
Tri-City will be entering its third season maintaining the flow meters in SQS #1 & SQS #2.
Breakdown of meters visited per year: 2017 (completed): SQS #1- 8 meters SQS #2- 68 meters 2018 (completed): SQS #1- 16 meters SQS #2- 68 meters 2019 (planned): SQS #1- 1 meter (not operating correctly) SQS #2- 72 meters 2020 (planned): SQS #1 - TBD SQS #2- 69 meters Attached is the maintenance rotation spreadsheet Staff would like to discuss offering meter maintenance District wide. The Committee directed staff to present numbers with more information for District wide Meter Maintenance at the January Committee Meeting.
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2.A.7. Bellwood Phase 2 Area
Rationale:
2018 is the sixteenth year for this Phase 2 Area.
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2.A.8. Richland - Schuyler Phase 2 Area
Rationale:
2018 is the third year of this Phase 2 Area. There are 45 registered active irrigation wells in the ten sections of this new area.
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2.A.9. Richland - Schuyler Phase 3 Area
Rationale:
2018 is the third year of this Phase 3 Area. This Phase 3 area went into effect September 1, 2015. The 55 sections of this area first went into a Phase 2 Area in 2004.
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2.A.10. LPNNRD Operator Certification
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2.A.10.a. 2019 LPNNRD Certification Classes for Nitrogen and Water Management
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2.A.11. Groundwater Rules and Regulations Discussion
Rationale:
Discussion Items
Water Flow Meters - Staff and Committee discussed the issue of the water flow meter requirement for new well permits and variances. Staff has found situations that flow meters have not installed. This information has become easier to track by using the Phoenix Database. Staff will be utilizing the field application in the next few months to investigate all variance applications. Staff and Committee discussed if water flow meters are needed District wide. How important is it to provide accurate information compared to estimated consumption use when reporting on the IMPs and if future modeling efforts are conducted? The cost and how many meters is still an unknown. Phase Areas - Staff plans on addressing the requirements with the Committee after more intensive water sampling is conducted by staff in the Summer 2019. Variances - Discussion on setting a minimum score for variances that can be approved. Staff is planning to go though the complete scoring process with the Committee or Board before proceeding on with the variance discussion. |
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2.B. LIVESTOCK WASTE PERMITS
Rationale:
The LPNNRD has received # 2 livestock permit applications from DEQ since the last Water Committee meeting.
Description of permit application
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3. GROUND WATER PROGRAMS
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3.A. DECOMMISSIONED WELL PROGRAM
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3.A.1. Well Estimates
Rationale:
# new wells has been reviewed and approved for decommissioning since the last Committee meeting.
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3.A.2. Plugged Wells
Rationale:
# wells have been plugged, reviewed, and ready for cost share payment approval this month.
Recommended Motion(s):
To approve a well decommissioning payment for an irrigation well in Platte County to Platte Center Development LLC for $1067.55 Passed with a motion by Board Member #1 and a second by Board Member #2.
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3.B. LOWER PLATTE NORTH NRD GROUND WATER STUDIES
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3.B.1. Eastern Nebraska Water Resources Assessment (ENWRA)
Rationale:
Attached is an invoice for $30,000 for ENWRA dues and the NRD commitment of $3,400 for the GeoCloud project. A check has been receive from ENWRA for $9,150 for dues credit for 2019.
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3.B.2. Lower Platte River Consortium
Rationale:
The next meeting, which will be reviewing the comments and final draft, is planned for Tuesday, January 22, 2019 starting at 1:30 pm at Lower Platte South. Attached are the options that was reviewed by HDR and presented at the public open house.
Staff recommends as the initial study is being finalize and the next potential steps are projects, that a Board member act as a liaison or possibly a voting member for this group. Committee commented that Staff can be the voting representative for this group. Information on the proposed projects, as they are brought forward, will be presented and discussed with the Committee.
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3.C. NEW MONITORING WELLS
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3.D. GROUND WATER QUALITY SAMPLING
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4. OTHER
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4.A. GMDA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Rationale:
The conference was held in Phoenix January 7-9, 2019.
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4.B. COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC
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