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Meeting
of the Clean Water Management Board of Trustees Infrastructure/Wastewater
Committee Agenda Board
of Trustees Executive Order Number One mandates that the Chair inquire as to whether any Trustee knows of any conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest with respect to matters on the agenda. If any Trustee knows of a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest, please so state at this time. Robert D. Howard, Chairman, Presiding 8:30 am A. Call to Order – Chairman Howard 1) Welcome – The Honorable
Herb Greene, Chairman, Caldwell County Board of Commissioners 8:45 am B. Public Comments – Chairman Howard 1) Deborah Ashley, Director,
Caldwell County Chamber of Commerce – Wilson Creek National Wild &
Scenic River Project 9:10 am C. Stewardship Committee Report – Committee Chairman Baddour 9:20 am D. Legislative Committee Report – Committee Chairman McMillan 9:30 am E. Executive Director’s Report – Bill Holman 1) 2003-2004 CWMTF Budget
Update – Francine Durso 9:50 am F. Attorney General’s Report – Frank Crawley 10:00 am G. Break 10:10 am H. Infrastructure/Wastewater Committee Report – Committee Chairman Leroy Smith (Action Items – See April 18, 2004 Committee Agenda) 1) 2002A-503 – Town of Elkin’s Regional Wastewater Project. The Board approved up to $3,000,000 for this project in December 2002. Elkin has requested changes in the grant conditions. CWMTF staff recommends that the Board take final action on Elkin’s request. 11:10 am I. Mapping Change in Buncombe County and the French Broad River Basin – Dr. Paul Bartels, Professor of Environmental Studies at Warren Wilson College and Philip Gibson, French Broad RiverKeeper 12:00 pm J. Working Lunch 12:30 pm K. Update on the Division of Soil and Water Conservation’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) (CWMTF Project #s 1998A-999 and 2002A-305)– Tom Potter, CREP Manager (Information Item) 12:50 pm L. 2001B-017 – The Nature Conservancy’s Bear Garden Project – Francine Durso (Action Item) In January 2003, the Board approved a grant of up to $7,900,000 to The Nature Conservancy to acquire a state conservation easement on the 14,103-acre Bear Garden tract in the Cape Fear River Basin in Pender County, with the following conditions:
On March 18, 2004, TNC wrote CWMTF that WRC has agreed to purchase the tract for the amount of residual debt incurred by TNC but there is a 74.46-acre parcel that WRC is not interested in. TNC requests CWMTF permission to sell this parcel to a conservation buyer, but remove the CWMTF easement from the parcel. Since TNC proposes to remove the CWMTF easement from the tract, CWMTF staff recommends that the Board require TNC to repay to CWMTF the value of this tract, after which the CWMTF easement can be removed from the tract. The approximate amount of repayment to CWMTF will be $41,000. 1:00 pm M. Should the Board Make Final Decisions on 2004A Cycle Projects at its May 10 or July 12, 2004 Meetings? – Chairman Howard 1:20 pm N. Discussion 1:30 pm O. Adjourn The Infrastructure/Wastewater Committee (Trustees L. Smith, Chairman; Mosley, Brooks, Howard, MacFadyen, & Markey) will meet from 12:00 – 3:15 pm on Sunday, April 18 at the Cedar Rock County Club in Lenoir. Agenda CWMTF Trustees and staff
are lodging at the Comfort Inn at 970 Blowing Rock Blvd (US 321 North)
in Lenoir. Contact 828-754-2090. All CWMTF Board and Committee meetings are open to the public; all Trustees are invited to committee meetings. CWMTF staff will meet after the Board meeting on Monday, April 19. CWMTF and other conservation trust funds will report to the legislature’s Environmental Review Commission on Thursday, April 22 at 1:30 pm at the Holiday Inn at the Asheville Airport. The ERC will tour Gorges State Park the morning of April 22 and DuPont State Forest on the morning of April 23. CWMTF, the NC Coastal Federation, and others will celebrate conservation of Morris Landing (CWMTF Project #2002B-011) on Stump Sound near Holly Ridge in Onslow County at 2:00 pm on Friday, May 7, 2004. The Board of Trustees of CWMTF will meet on May 9-10 at the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh, July 11-12 in Raleigh, and August 8-9 in Burke County. CWMTF, the NC Coastal Land Trust, and others will celebrate conservation of Pettiford Creek (CWMTF Project #s 2001B-027 & 2002B-013) at 1:30 pm at Star Hill Golf Course in Cape Carteret on Thursday, May 13, 2004. CWMTF, Department of Transportation, DENR’s Ecosystem Enhancement Program, Natural Heritage Trust Fund, and others will celebrate conservation of the Mingo tract (CWMTF Project #2003A-035) in Caldwell & Wilkes Counties at Fort Defiance on Tuesday, May 25, 2004. The next deadline for applications for grants from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund is June 1, 2004. See www.cwmtf.net for more information. Other Announcements DENR/Division of Water Quality will conduct a Basinwide Water Quality Workshop for the New River Basin on Thursday, April 1, 2004 from 6:00 – 8:30 pm at the Ashe County Extension Center in Jefferson. Contact Julie Jackson at DENR/DWQ at 919-733-5083 ext 367 or Julie.Jackson@ncmail.net or http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/basinwide/. DENR Secretary Bill Ross appointed Lewis Ledford as Director of the Division of Parks & Recreation on April 2, 2004. The NC Water Resources Research Institute, NC State University, DENR, and the US Environmental Protection Agency are sponsoring “Stormwater: Emerging Issues of Local Communities” on April 19-21, 2004 at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville. Contact http://www.soil.ncsu.edu/swetc/stormwaterconf/main.htm for more information. The 9th Annual NC Land Trust Assembly is April 28-30, 2004 at Valle Crucis Conference Center in Watauga County. Contact Conservation Trust of NC at 919-828-4199. The 31st annual meeting of the Cape Fear River Assembly is April 29-30, 2004 at the NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher and Courtyard Marriott at Carolina Beach. The meeting will focus on total maximum daily loads (TMDL). Contact CFRA at 910-223-4601 or cfra@faynet.com. Get: Outdoors Cape Hatteras Splash is April 30 – May 2 in Frisco on Hatteras Island. Contact 1-800-450-6819. Festival on the Neuse in Kinston is May 1. Contact 800-869-0032 or www.visitkinston.com. DENR/Division of Water Quality will conduct Basinwide Water Quality Planning Workshops for the Cape Fear River Basin on May 5 from 3:00 – 6:00 pm at Guilford County Agricultural Center, on May 11 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm at Fayetteville Public Works Commission, on May 11 from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm at the Sampson County Agriculture Exposition Center in Clinton, May 20 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm at the New Hanover County Extension Center in Wilmington, and May 27 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm at the Chatham County Extension Center in Pittsboro. Contact Cam McNutt at cam.mcnutt@ncmail.net or 919-733-5083 ext 575 or http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/basinwide/Capefear/capefearindex.htm. The NC General Assembly convenes for its “Short Session” on May 10. Clean Water Lobby Day at the legislature is May 19, 2004. The Board of Trustees of the Parks & Recreation Trust Fund will meet on May 21-22 at Umstead State Park, July 23-24 at Lake James State Park, and October 24-25 at Gorges State Park. Land and Water Conservation Lobby Day at the legislature is June 2, 2004. National Trails Day is June 5, 2004. The NC League of Municipalities Town Hall Day at the legislature is June 9, 2004. Neuse River Day is June 12, 2004 in New Bern. Contact www.neuseriver.org. The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy will celebrate its 30th anniversary at its annual meeting in Crossnore on June 18-19. Contact www.appalachian.org or 828-253-0095. The next deadline for applications for the Natural Heritage Trust Fund is August 9, 2004; the Board of Trustees of NHTF will meet on September 30. The NC Sustainable Forestry
Implementation Committee (NCSFI) has established a toll-free number
to report activities that do not comply with SFI standards. The program’s
monitor, Steve Daniels, will investigate all complaints. Contact 1-877-271-6531.
Infrastructure/Wastewater
Committee Leroy Smith, Chairman, Presiding 12:00 pm H-A. Call to Order 1) Welcome – Chairman L.
Smith 12:05 pm H-B. Review of Standard CWMTF Infrastructure/Wastewater Contract – Francine Durso (Information Item) 12:15 pm H-C. Status of Active Infrastructure/Wastewater Contracts – Francine Durso (Information Item) 12:20 pm H-D. Phased Funding of Infrastructure/Wastewater and Other Construction projects – Bill Holman (Discussion Item) 12:35 pm H-E. Update on Pamlico County/Bay River Metropolitan Sewer District’s Proposed Nutrient Trade with Butner (1997A-001) – Bill Holman (Information Item) 12:40 pm H-F. Draft Resolution for Funding Backup Power Generation Projects – Francine Durso & Damon Tatem (Action Item) 12:45 pm H-G. Need for Guidance from the Board Regarding Whether Letters or Formal Applications for Funding to the DENR/Division of Water Quality’s Construction Grants and Loans Section are Required to Comply with CWMTF’s Enabling Legislation (GS 113-145.3c)(5))– Bill Holman (Action Item) 12:55 pm H-H. Need for Guidance from the Board Regarding High Unit Wastewater Costs. CWMTF staff recommends that the Board only fund wastewater collection and treatment projects in communities whose water and sewer rates are greater than high-unit costs. CWMTF staff further recommends that this high-unit cost policy not apply to wastewater reuse projects until better data can be gained on the costs of reuse projects. – Bill Holman (Potential Action Item) 1:05 pm H-I. Review of 2004A and Other Infrastructure/Wastewater Projects – Chairman L. Smith and CWMTF staff (Action Items) Projects acted favorably upon by the Committee and the Board of Trustees will remain eligible for further review later this year. Deferred Projects 1) 2001B-502 – Camden County’s Sawyers Creek Wastewater Land Application Construction ($2,162,000) – Francine Durso (Information Item) On January 13, 2003, the Board of Trustees approved a grant of up to $438,000 to fund the preliminary engineering report, engineering design, and permitting for this project with the condition that once these activities were complete and the County had received the necessary permits for project construction, then the County could request that CWMTF review its request for construction funds at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board’s Infrastructure/Wastewater Committee. The project is currently under design. 2) 2002A-503 – Town of Elkin’s Revised Scope of Work for Regional Wastewater Facilities – Bern Schumak (Final Action Item) On Dec. 10, 2002, the Board of Trustees approved a grant of up to $3,000,000 to fund a project to reduce wastewater discharge to the Upper Yadkin River by upgrading the Chatham Manufacturing WWTP from an industrial facility to a regional municipal wastewater facility and then consolidating wastewater discharges from the Town of Elkin, Chatham Manufacturing and the Town of Jonesville into a single reduced discharge. The Board stipulated that Elkin was required to provide written documentation that the Town of Jonesville would consolidate their wastewater treatment and connect to the Chatham Manufacturing WWTP. Soon after project approval, Elkin responded that Jonesville would not participate in the project and requested that they be allowed to revise the scope of the project. 2004A Wastewater Projects 1)
2004A-501 – City of Dunn’s Mingo Swamp ($3,058,000) – Nancy Guthrie 2004A Failing Septic Tank Projects 1)
2004A-601 – Town of Cove City’s Core Creek ($333,000) – Leland Heath 2004A Wastewater Planning Projects 1)
2004A-804 – Town of Surf City’s Batts Mill Land Application Planning
($35,000) – Damon Tatem
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