Meeting Minutes – TWG Meeting October 28, 2005
IDWR Office – Boise, ID

In Attendance –

Gene Dana, USGS
Leigh Bailey, Payette National Forest
Christa Braun, BLM
Erv Cowley, BLM
Linda Davis, IDWR
Sandra Thiel, IDWR
Genna Ashley, IDWR

 Via Phone Conference –

 Valdon Hancock, Sawtooth NF

 The meeting began at approximately 9:15 a.m.

 HUC REVIEW

Raft River 17040210 – The TWG group reviewed this unit with Valdon Hancock, Sawtooth National Forest.  Due to network problems, NetMeeting was unavailable for this meeting, but Valdon worked with the TWG group via telephone connection only.  This huc is shared by Utah, which has certified linework.  It was decided to keep the Utah linework where possible, and change the Idaho linework minimally to make it more hydrologically correct, per Valdon’s suggestions.  After the changes have been made by Idaho, they will be sent to Utah for review.

Idaho has split the Utah 6^th field Circle Creek-Raft River into two 6^th’s – Circle Creek-Raft River and Imigrant Canyon-Raft River, in order to keep a pure 6^th (Circle Creek) at 17,200 acres.

At Valdon’s suggestion, the TWG broke Grape Creek out as a pure 6^th field (see shapefile “TWG20051028.shp”.  Also, Grape Creek should be in the same 5^th field as Edwards Creek, as they come down the same valley, so this 6^th field unit will become part of the Cottonwood Creek 5^th field unit.

The Johnson Creek and George Creek 6^th field units should hydrologically be linked together.  The Johnson Creek 6^th field unit will be moved into the George Creek-Raft River 5^th field unit.

Valdon moved Barnes Creek 6^th into the Clear Creek 6^th.  The NAIP, and 949 aerial photography shows Barnes Creek and Holt Creek joining up approximately 6 miles before Raft River.

The 5^th field name Sandrock Canyon-Meadow Creek will be renamed to Meadow Creek

The 5^th field name Johnson Creek-Raft River will be renamed Wildcat Creek-Raft River

The 5^th field name George Creek-Raft River will be renamed Edwards Creek-Raft River

The Monument Canyon 6^th field will be combined with a portion of the Sandrock Canyon 6^th field unit.  For specific line placement, see shapefile “TWG20051028.shp”.  The where these would meet Raft River was cleaned up.

The TWG re-sectioned portions of the 6^th field Sublett Creek into different 5^th and 6^th field units.  Upper and Lower Sublett Creek, Warm Creek and Shirley Creek will now comprise a 5^th field.  For specific line placement, see shapefile “TWG20051028.shp”.

The leftover 6^th field portion of the old “Lower Sublett Creek” (which isn’t actually Sublett Creek) will be grouped into the Junction Creek 5^th field, along with the Calder Creek and Eagle Point 6^th field units.  This will create a very large 6^th field unit, called Idahohome-Raft River.  A justification will be written for this area.

Poison Hollow-Echo Hollow 6^th field will be renamed Echo Hollow.  The confluence was cleaned up in this unit.

ACTION ITEMS:

 Genna Ashley will make the changes on the Raft River hydrologic unit and send the edits to Valdon Hancock for approval.  

 MISCELLANEOUS DISCUSSION

Sandra Thiel and Gene Dana talked about the NHD progress.  There are only 2 remaining hucs, and they are very close to completion.  Sandra also went over some issues that she encountered when processing NHD for the Middle Fork Payette hydrologic unit.  The NHD lines need to fall within the new 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th field boundary lines and the watershed linework should be snapped to the NHD at the confluences. 

 NEXT SCHEDULED TWG MEETING (S):

Thursday, November 17, 2005 at the Idaho Department of Water Resources 5^th floor conference room (Arrowrock Rm 549-F) at 9:00 a.m.

 For directions and/or NetMeeting connections, please contact Genna Ashley at (208) 287-4880 genna.ashley@idwr.idaho.gov

     ***Subject to change before meeting***

The meeting concluded at approximately 2:45 p.m.