2019-07-21 Environmental Committee

Environmental Committee VDOE July 21

Committee members in attendance:  Jane Gunn, Patti Aliventi, Paula Doyle, Adam Leiser

Absent: Larry Leonard                    Public in attendance: None

Meeting was not filmed                Call to order 8:02am

Adam motion to approve agenda – second Jane vote yes 4-0

Adam motion to approve minutes of 7/7 – second Paula vote yes 4-0

Adam informs committee that questions were sent to John Cooley – no answer yet

Not urgent to get answers

BOC authorized purchase of two extra boards for the dam – boards to be cut to size

July 29th at 9am is VLAP testing at Geneva Beach – Adam will attend – TBD on others

John Cancelarich has resigned from the committee

Adam announces that he was authorized by the BOC to respond on Facebook to the conversation about weekly beach testing – simply to write the exact wording of the motion

Paula wonders if the dam management plan should be done in the Environmental Committee

Adam discussed proposed pond level management – Paula asks who would be in charge of administration of proposed pond level management – answer is unknown

Paula is concerned that this management plan is too much of a management job

Paula isn’t comfortable endorsing this

Jane says she wants more questions answered

Adam agrees

Leak in dam discussed

BOC has not discussed following up with DES about the potential failure of the dam

Questions for Charlie Krautman – Can you tell us more about the leak you identified?  What are the implications?  Should we be discussing a fix, replace?  What’s your advice?

Paula says it should be done in person.  Can we do it in person?  Should it be on the phone?  Everyone agrees to try it in person.

Paula wonders who should be part of meeting.  Patti thinks it’s environmental committee and BOC.

Adam says we should thank Charlie for the report.

Outhouses – Nancy is to send the committee what she has on outhouses removal.

Should the VDOE supply bear proof garbage cans in the district?

Most affordable long term option may be to reconstruct outhouses and get bear proof garbage cans so we can pump outhouses in the future.

Environmental Committee wants the information from DES regarding outhouse removal.

EPOA should be notified that the BOC voted to not pay for the testing.

EPOA asked to comb the lake.  Have we gotten a response?

Paula asks about the process to get information to and from the BOC – Adam explains that it will all be happening between the chair of the committees and the administrator.

Paula reached out to Dr. James Thoule(?) and has not heard back regarding storm water management

Nordell Gagnon may be attending a BOC meeting in the future.  He has been contacted.

Patti discusses Big Porridge Pond Preservation Assocation – August 10 at 2pm.  Nobody on the committee is planning to go.  Jay Buckley has said he would go.  Jane asks what the purpose of the association is.  Nobody is certain but Paula thinks Jay may know.

Porridge Shore runoff – Kevin Ackert reached out to the BOC and asked to meet with Adam.  Adam informs committee he will be happy to meet with Kevin.  Adam will inform committee when that meeting will occur.  Adam will try to make it a daytime meeting.

Adam says multiple beaches need sand – maybe we need to have erosion control on the beaches?  Adam raises the question of what does committee want to do?  Should the BOC find out if someone in the district has a background or knowledge on this?  Maybe some money should be allocated?

Patti and Jane said they will look and learn and report back to the Environmental committee regarding sand runoff in rainstorms.  Neither Jane nor Patti will be contacting anyone: just fact finding

Nothing to report on Thusis because water levels are too high

Adam motion to adjourn – second Patti --- Vote 4-0

Next meeting is 8pm on 8/5 in the Lodge

Minutes taken and submitted by Adam Leiser