20080868 Ver 2_2018 Agenda PCS Science Panel Mtg_20180829

AGENDA
AUGUST 29 2018 MEETING
TO DISCUSS THE PCS CREEKS STUDY DATA COLLECTION YEAR 2017 REPORT
9:00 am, US Army Corps of Engineers Washington NC Field Office
A) Current Mine Progress (PCS)
a) aerial photo (handout)
B) Data Collection Record (CZR)
a) Table I -A1 (new format)
C) Drainage Basin Reductions for 2017 (PCS)
a) Figures I -C1, I -C2, and I -C3
D) TO DOs from 2017 Science Panel Meeting Minutes
➢ PCS/DWR to discuss hydrogeologic depictions of deep water wells
➢ PCS/CZR to submit clarification "proposal" for vegetation monitoring (5 years pre
when possible, keep same plan for transition year(s) and one year after transition
period, monitor for 4 years post -Mod Alt L, then skip a year, monitor for another
post -Mod Alt L year, skip a year etc., until such time it is deemed otherwise. DONE:
PCS certified letter submitted to agencies 12 September 2017
➢ CZR look at potential bias in trawl data (time of day, order in which creeks are
sampled) DONE: PCS email to USACE and NCD WIR representatives on 22 February
2018 with CZR trawl bias memo attached
➢ CZR to send fish list to Jason Rock, Ken Riley, Kevin Hart, and Roger Rulifson for
local expertise/input on fish guild assignments DONE: CZR emails to Jason Rock, Ken
Kiley and Roger Rulifson 14-19 September 2017 -Kevin Hart no longer was with state fisheries.
Rock, Riley, and Frig Rohde (who received list from Riley) responded.
E) Discussion of the ROD Special Condition S Six Questions
a) Q1 -Flow changes (CZR/PCS)
b) Q2 -Geomorphic or vegetative character changes (CZR/PCS)
Feedback or update on PCS September vegetation monitoring proposal
c) Q3 -Forage base changes (CZR/PCS)
d) Q4 -Managed fish changes (CZR/PCS)
e) Q5 -Metals in sediment or water column (ECU -Dr. Jamie DeWitt)
f) Q6 -Water quality changes (ECU- Dr. Enrique Reyes)
Grimm, Volker and Christian Wissel. 1997. Babel, or the ecological stability discussions: an
inventory and analysis of terminology and a guide for avoiding confusion. Oecologia (1997)
109: 323-334
(Citation omitted from Section IV Literature Cited)
F) Suggestions for 2018 report