165th Council Meeting
La Fonda Hotel (on the Plaza)
Santa Fe, New Mexico
April 13-15, 2011
Water Information Data Exchange Workshop
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
David Maidment (University of Texas) - Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI), TX Water Board, TCEQ effort to share information on water usage
Jeff Simley (USGS) - Georeferencing water diversions to the National Hydrolography Dataset which will allow for better modeling and estimation of water use
Dave Barfield (KS) - Kansas' approach for captureing water use data
Eric Evenson (USGS) - The Water Census and USGS' methodologies for estimating water use
Vince Tidwell (Sandia Lab) - Incorporating water availability and use data to help with power transmission and citing decisions
Tommy Dewald (EPA) - National Hydrography Dataset
Dwane Young (WestFAST) - Sharing water quality data: Paradigms on data sharing
Dave Wunsch (National Ground Water Assn) - Subcommittee on Groundwater Portal for sharing groundwater information
Wayne Sleep (NRCS) - SNOTEL and the Snow Survey
Water Reources Committee Meeting
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Bureau of Reclamation Activities - Avra Morgan and others
Data Exchange Outcomes - Dwane Young
WGA/WSWC Water-Energy Grant Survey
Energy and Water in the Western and Texas Interconnects - Vince Tidwell, Sandia Lab
Managed Aquifer Recharge in the Middle Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico - Stephanie Moore, Daniel B. Stephens and Associates
Water Quality Committee Meeting
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Clean Water Act Permitting of Discharges from Pesticide Applications - Allison Wiedeman, EPA Water Permits Division
Update on Stormwater Regulation - Connie Bosma, EPA Office of Wastewater Management
EPA’s Current Initiatives for New/Revised Drinking Water Standards and the Potential Impacts to States - John Calkins, Manager, Drinking Water Section
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
New Mexico Water Quality Standards - Marcy Leavitt, New Mexico Department of the Environment
Colorado's Antidegradation Provisions - Sarah Johnson, Standards Unit Manager Colorado Water Quality Control Division
Legal Committee Meeting
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Water Resources Planning with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes in Oklahoma - Duane Smith and Barney Austin
Federal Payment of Stormwater Fees - Nathan Bracken, WSWC Legal Counsel
Full Council Meeting
Friday, April 15, 2011
Water Resources Issues in New Mexico - John R. D’Antonio, Jr., P.E., New Mexico State Engineer
WestFAST Report - Mike Fallon, USACE