Advisory Committee Mtg Follow-Up

The draft meeting minutes for the October advisory committee meeting are now available for download.

At the meeting, Sue Weaver from DEP presented on managing drought in Pennsylvania.  The slides from her presentation are available for download here.  Two handouts were also provided.  First, was a document developed by DEP called "Drought Management in Pennsylvania".  The second was chapter 118 of the Pennsylvania code regarding reductions of major water use in a commonwealth basin drought emergency area.

Heidi Moltz from ICPRB presented the results from the technical analyses on water availability and future water use in the Critical Water Planning Area.  The slides from her presentation are available for download here.  The associated written technical reports are also available online.  The first is on current water uses.  The second is on future water uses and water availability.

Beverly Saunders, a graduate student from Texas State University-San Marcos, presented on ILBM.  ILBM is a methodology for prioritizing and evaluating management options at the watershed scale.  The methodology will be implemented in the Marsh and Rock creek watersheds at a February workshop (specific date and time to be determined).  Slides from Beverly's presentation are available for download here.