Steering Committee Minutes 11/3/05

Steering Committee Attendees: Vicky Boundy, June Fichter, Terry Dancy, Deane
Geddes, Ken Lawson, Bill Thomas, Kathryn Holmes, Cynthia Hayes

The Steering committee met for an hour prior to the general meeting.
The question arose: where is the Waukewan group in the process? Discussion centered
around targets for the sub-committees, now that impervious surfaces has been selected as
the key theme.
The Steering committee will reconvene to discuss the involvement of NH. Rural Water
Association in the SAWC Watershed Planning process.

General Meeting:
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 Web site: www.home.earthlink.net/~sunapeewatershed/