Agenda in Blue
Notes
is Black
Annual meeting
Caska
re-elected as President
Kennedy
re-elected as Vice-President
Solem
re-elected as Sec/Tres
Solem
re-elected as District Manager
Regular
meeting
Approval of Minutes of
Approval of vouchers and warrants
Old
Business:
1. A-Canal Fish
Screens, O&M agreement, power agreement
A Canal:
Concrete walls and floor are complete for the fish screen except for the
slab going in and the slab going out. Piers
for the trash rack are done as are the piers for the fish screen.
Piers for the flue from the fish screen to the bypass pipe are not poured
but contractor is working on them. Piers
for the new head gates – one is poured and contractor is working on the rest.
A slab of concrete will extend across the top once the piers are done.
The
screens themselves are completed and BOR representative is at the factory
checking for quality control before they are shipped out to Klamath.
All the
mechanical stuff is either here or on schedule to be shipped.
Nothing
unusual going on, seems to be right on schedule.
Pipe from the fish screen to the pump house has not been delivered yet.
Contractor
can’t seem to gain any time on the building of the pump house.
The fish pump is in
Gravity
by-pass to below
9 weeks
left for construction – and contractor is on schedule for a
Contractor
has not asked for any extensions – seems sure they’ll finish on time.
Only worry is if suppliers cause delay of components – screen or other
mechanical’s are not up to spec.
O&M
agreement on new headgate and fish screen: KID
and BOR are still ironing out the details of the O&M agreement.
Power
agreement: KID received a letter
from PP&L about the installation of power to the new headgates and fish
screen. KID is looking at a totally
new power contract.
2. Adjudication
Appears
the adjudication process is now kicking into high gear.
3 or 4 claims a week are going to the hearings officer.
State is not waiting for a court decision on the Adair III appeal.
3. BOR conservation
grants
KID has
applied for 4 DOI/BOR Water Conservation grants; each totaling under $25,000.
New flow measuring devices, new canal linings, piping of A3F, and to
purchase something called “PAM” for seepage control.
KID has got the applications in to the local BOR office only to find out
from Hicks that the BOR hasn’t got any money for these grants.
Seems Congress hasn’t appropriated the money for this program yet.
BOR
might not get the money till summer or later – waiting for budget to pass.
Enterprise District has already started building something on assurance
by BOR’s Hicks that he had the money.
Dave is
pushing to go ahead and buy the “PAM”, they need to stop some of the really
bad seeps and leaks before irrigation season starts this year.
4. Public information
request
The
Western Environmental Council filed a public information request of KID for
information about how much acrolein KID has used during the past three years.
They’ve asked for all of KID’s records.
KID has sent back a legal form asking WEC for pre-payment of office time
and copies before the records will be sent out.
The information is ready to be mailed, but KID hasn’t heard back from
WEC.
5. OWRD
position/Hatfield working group position
Still
looking for someone to fill the position that’s vacant.
Suggestion was made to have an article in the Herald and News about this
position. (since the meeting, an
article has appeared in the local paper asking for volunteers for this
position.)
New
Business:
1. Bike path
KID has
had to remove 200 feet of asphalt and part of the cyclone fence from the bike
path along the A Canal, between
KID
closes the bike path while working by placing “closed” signs on each street
crossing. Walkers and others using
the path have been ignoring the “closed” signs and are walking around
workers and equipment on the bike path; and KID is worried about liability.
County is supposed to be liable, Ganong is looking at the contract and
will write a letter to the county.
2. Subdivision
New
subdivision going in off Homedale. Developer
asking for fences to be built on KID ditch banks
3. 2003 operations
a. 2003 BO and Operations
Plan; water bank
Nothing
new here on BO and Plan. Waiting for
BOR, USF&W, and NMFS.
Water
Bank: BOR has questions on plan –
met with BOR.
b. Supply conditions;
river flows
c. O&M Bill
Bill
signed, no money appropriated yet by Congress – not even in the 2003 budget.
Walden’s office say’s maybe in the 2004 budget.
Looks
like $4 million but the longer it takes to get the money appropriated, the
harder it will be to trace the landowners in 2001.
Land in the basin changes hands, money will go to the landowners, not the
leasers or renters who probably paid the O&M in 2001.
Looks
like BOR will be in charge of distributing the money once it’s appropriated
instead of KID.
4. Lawsuit/legal
a. Takings
Nothing
happening, still waiting for the Judge.
b. PCFFA II
This
case being heard in
c. ONRC v. EPA NPDES
permit
EPA is
going to fight this one. ONRC is
trying to “force” consulting with F&W.
EPA is saying “Bring it on!!” Just
waiting for Feb 18th – date for EPA to respond to the lawsuit.
(Say
South Suburban Sanitary needs to re-apply for their NPDES permit to discharge
into the
And KID
is in compliance with all Federal and State Clean Water Laws.
d. ONRC v. BOR
All
herbicide applications on the Project including the Refuge lease lands –
fungicides contain copper sulfate and the BOR should have been doing monitoring
and hasn’t been. Looks like the
BOR is now trying to cover their tracks on this lawsuit.
5. foreclosures
This is
where I left the meeting.
6. Equipment:
forklift, boom truck, flexlease program
7. Maintenance
8. Employees
9. Insurance
10. BOR Mid-Pacific
meeting February 22 – 24
11. KWUA power
meeting January 9,
12. SDAO conference
Feb. 6 – 9
13. Exclusions
14. Other
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