AGENDA

Lower Colorado Regional Water Planning Group
Wednesday, March 31 , 2004

Bay City Civic Center
201 West 7th Street
Bay City, Texas
10:00 a.m.

 

Regular Meeting

 (1.)             Call to Order – John Burke

 (2.)             Welcome and Introductions – John Burke

 (3.)             Attendance Report – Teresa Lutes, Secretary (5 min.)

 (4.)             Consent Agenda: (10 min.)

(a.)              Approval of Minutes for the February 25th, meeting.

(b.)             Financial / Budget Report – Teresa Lutes/Jobaid Kabir

(5.)             Committee Reports: (15 min)

(a.)              Environmental Flow Committee

(b.)             Groundwater Management Plan Review Committee

(c.)              Legislative Committee – Ron Gertson

(d.)             Liaison Reports

(e.)              Public Information – Bill Couch and Julia Marsden

(f.)               Unique Streams Segment Committee-Jim Barho

(6.)             Briefing on LCRA / SAWS project.  –  Karen Bondy (10 minutes)

(7.)             Presentation and discussion of LCRA’s Matagorda Bay park and preservation – Katherine Gonzales and Betsy Terrell (10 minutes)

(8.)             Presentation and discussion on the South Texas Project relative to water use. – Rick Gangluff (10 minutes)

(9.)             Briefing on the history of Matagorda Bay – Haskell Simon (5 minutes)

(10.)         Discuss and possible action on the process for identification of potentially feasible water management strategies that will be evaluated in preparation of the 2006 Lower Colorado Regional Water Plan.  (Continued from December 2003) – Bill Couch (15 minutes)

(11.)         Status update on the determination of areas currently and preliminarily identified with water supply shortages over the 50-yr. water planning period. – TCB (15 minutes)

(12.)         Discuss and take action on supplemental funding request to TWDB. – Bill Couch (20 minutes)

(13.)         Discuss and possible action to select Water Availability Model (WAM) control points for stream flow analyses.  – Jennifer Walker, Teresa Lutes, Jobaid Kabir and David Meesey (20 minutes)

(14.)         Discuss and possible action on the methodology proposed by TWDB regarding the State Water Plan use of the Water Availability Model (WAM) for stream flow analyses. – David Meesey (20 minutes)

(15.)         Brief report on the Senate Select Committee on Water Policy public meeting held in Victoria, March 17th and on a proposed desalination project based offshore and utilizing wind power. – Haskell Simon (10 minutes- time permitting)

(16.)         New / Other Business (time permitting)

(17.)         Calendar

(18.)         Agenda Items for Next Meeting

(19.)         Public Comments – limit 3 minutes per person

(20.)         Adjourn

 

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