Meeting Minutes
– TWG Meeting March 29, 2004
IDWR Office – Boise, ID
In Attendance –
Linda
Davis, IDWR
Sandra Thiel, IDWR
Genna Ashley, IDWR
Al Rea, USGS
Leigh Bailey, Payette National Forest
Ervin Cowley, BLM
Valdon Hancock, Sawtooth National Forest
No Phone Attendees
The
National coordination meeting has been officially scheduled for Thursday, April
22, 2004. A message will be posted
to the GeoTech server, and put on the watershed website.
17040211
Goose Creek
– This huc was reviewed by Valdon Hancock.
Valdon explained why the Big Cottonwood Creek hydrography should be
excluded from this huc and included with the Upper Snake-Rock huc instead. According to the GNIS data, the Big Cottonwood Creek falls
within both hucs, and should be included within the Upper Snake Rock huc.
This is an area that has been flagged and will be presented to the
National folks on April 22nd. There
is also an area at the northern portion of the huc that previously fell within
the Lake Walcott huc that should be included with the Goose Creek huc instead.
Al Rea asked if Goose Creek was contributing any flow to the Snake River.
Erv Cowley stated that this only happens in extreme water years.
He stated that there was a channel built that carried water from the
Goose Creek over to Lake Murtaugh – sparing the Burley Area from possible
flooding. Due to agricultural
landuse and low relief, the drainages are extremely difficult to follow and are
not continuous. It is difficult to determine where they go and how to follow
them in this area. Valdon Hancock
stated that he had done his best to try to determine what the original natural
drainage in this area was.
Valdon
pointed out one area that he delineated differently from the Utah linework, and
that was a small area within the Goose Creek-Coal Banks Creek 6th
field. The Utah linework crosses
some NHD hydro, and Valdon corrected it in the linework submitted to the TWG.
There
were a couple 6th field labels that were misnamed.
The Sawmill Creek 6th will be renamed to be Sawmill Gulch, and
the Cave Creek Reservoir will be renamed to Cave Gulch.
All
three small areas that are currently 6th fields named Mill
Creek-Summit Creek will be combined into one 6th field, and renamed
Mill Creek.
The
Land Creek-Mackey Wash 6th fields will be combined into one 6th
field and named Land Creek.
The
Oakley Valley 6th field will have a “00” extension, and will be
renamed to Goose Creek Oakley Valley.
IDWR
will number and make the above name changes, combine the above-mentioned 6th
fields, then send the completed data to Valdon Hancock for approval.
This
unit will be presented next month at the National Meeting to show an example of
changes to forth field boundaries found in watershed delineation.
Upper
Henry’s, Lower Henry’s, Teton, Palisades: Lee
Leffert was unable to attend this meeting, but the TWG went through and looked
at some of the linework and attributes. The
following items were noted:
The
24k linework needs to be checked below the Juniper Sand Dunes area in the Lower
Henry’s 5th field where the line goes across the dunes.
The
boundary between the Salt and Palisades hucs needs to be checked against the
Wyoming certified data. There is an
area that differs from the original USGS huc boundary, and Idaho would like to
determine if this area has been certified or not.
One
small change was noted between the South Fork Moody Creek and the Dry
Canyon-Moody Creek 6th field huc boundary for the Teton Huc.
Linda
Davis asked if there were any special hucs or areas that the group would like to
present at the National meeting. The
following hucs/areas were identified:
Goose
Creek
Salmon Falls
Birch Creek (with the INEEL area included)
Teton
Big Wood
The Snake River Plain/Lake Walcott/Craters area hucs – 17040209 and 17040206.
Northern Idaho area (Linda will help locate)
Bear River 4th field line below Bear Lake.
Linda
asked if the TWG group would like to do an additional meeting the following day;
Friday, April 23rd. It
was agreed that this would be a good idea, and this meeting was scheduled.
The following hucs were put on the agenda for that day:
Teton, Lower Henry’s, Palisades, Upper Henry’s, and the Middle Bear.
There
was some discussion about the national meeting and what they would want to see
from Idaho. Al Rea stated that the
first thing they would probably ask is for a status and completion date.
It was agreed that the most time-consuming portion of the process can be
fixing the concept lines to match 24k accuracy, and possibly some funding
sources can be identified.
Genna
Ashley will work with Al Rea and get linework to him for the National Meeting
that will be held at the USGS office in April.
This needs to be done at least a week prior to the meeting so that any
bugs can be worked out.
ACTION
ITEMS:
Genna Ashley will make the changes that have been identified on the
Goose Creek huc and forward those changes to Valdon Hancock.
Sandra Thiel will check the boundary line at the southern portion
of the Juniper Sand Dunes huc within the Lower Henry’s 5th field
huc.
The Wyoming certified data will be checked against our boundary
between the Palisades and Salt hucs.
Genna Ashley will work with Al Rea to set up for the April
watershed meeting that will be held at the USGS office in Boise.
NEXT
SCHEDULED TWG MEETING (S):
National
meeting for Idaho
– Thursday, April 22, 2004, 9:00 a.m., at
the USGS Office in Boise.
Regular
Monthly TWG Meeting
– Friday, April 23, at 10:00 a.m, in the IDWR Upstairs Conference Room. For directions and/or NetMeeting connections, please contact
Genna Ashley-Poulson at (208) 327-7958, genna.ashley@idwr.idaho.gov
***Subject
to change before meeting***