| The Sunapee Area Watershed Coalition |
| Minutes of the 8/25/05 Meeting |
| Meeting Summary August 25, 2005 |
| For Water Quality, LSPA has conductivity data for 20plus years; Pleasant Lake for ~ 12 years, other streams for ~ 10years. Key words to focus on: hi impervious surface vs conductivity, and phosphorus. De-vegetation and turbidity, as well as ph, chloride, and pesticides. Other aspects of the problem to be looked at: storm-water, road maintenance, and zoning. |
| For the Education committee: seven factors: conductivity, impervious surface, phosphorus, turbidity, ph, chloride, pesticides. As well as keeping updated on emerging problems. J. Fichter will give a copy of LSPA brochures on these topics. |
| The Education committee also would like to do a newsletter, with perhaps a survey inside. The newsletter could be quarterly, the first one due this fall. The committee discussed use of website, town locations, such as town halls, libraries for distribution, as well as a mailing. |
| For Land Use: storm-water runoff is an important topic, as would be planning, mapping, forestry management and practices, and hazard mitigation. Specifically, the Land Use will work toward an end result vs the regulations, asking what are the regs, what is missing, what is going into the new Master Plans, enforcement and implementation of Master Plans. There is also an education component, i.e. percentages of lawns vs shrubs, etc. |
| It was agreed that the sub-committees will come back to the next general SAWC meeting with their progress. |
| Next Steering Com Meeting: September 15th, 7:00, Ivey Center |
| Next SAWC Meeting: October 6, 7:00, Ivey Center (will meet 1st Thursdays) |
| Note: on September 7th, 4:00 CSC Tracey Library, New London Carolyn Russell from DES will present on "Impervious Surfaces" This will be an interactive session. |
| On Oct. 25th, SPNHF will present the "State of NH Forests", 7-9 at Clements Hall at CSC. |
| SAWC: The link between land use and water quality |