Northeast Wisconsin Stormwater Consortium
Municipal Committee Meeting Agenda– November 19, 2015
9:00-11:00am
NEWSC Office
I.
II.
Introductions
Attendees: Steve (County), Jeff, Dave
Notes taken by: Genevieve
Pond Workshop Draft Agenda
a. Introductions (11am-3pm)
b. Purpose of Stormwater Ponds: Why do we have them? –Peter Neuberger (Appleton)
c. Design of Stormwater Ponds: Brief Overview—Peter Neuberger (Appleton)
d. Inspection & Maintenance
i. Inspection requirements – when required? Reporting required?
Inspection after every 1 inch of rainfall
ii. Inspection & Maintenance Topics
1. Permanent Pool
2. Clogging
3. Pipe Repairs
4. Vegetation Management
5. Dredging and Muck Removal
a. NR 528: Where can it go?—Sediment manager identified?
6. Access
7. Mechanical Components
8. Nuisance Issues
a. Animals
Address how different municipalities deal with muskrats
b. Waterfowl
c. Mosquitoes
d. Undesirable Plant Communities
Contact DNR about cattails.
What is desirable and what’s not?
How often should you burn them? Prairies?
Should we be using herbicide?
When should we do all that?
e. Water Quality Degradation
f. How do you measure the amount of sediment in the pond?
When should you measure?
Are there any tools available?
iii. Site Examples (presented throughout the item level discussion)
What should be the timeframe of when to host the workshop?
Prepare an indoor presentation in case weather
Grand Chute Town Hall? Find a pond that is walkable. Does Grand Chute have
an agreement with the private ponds?
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Northeast Wisconsin Stormwater Consortium
Municipal Committee Meeting Agenda– November 19, 2015
9:00-11:00am
NEWSC Office
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
e. Panel Discussion: Fond du Lac, City of Appleton, City of Green Bay, Rochester (Mike
Crashesky), etc.
Should we time the panel so that each person can only speak for so long?
i. How do we currently handle inspection responsibilities?
ii. What do we currently handle well? Where do we need more help/
information?
iii. How do we currently handle maintenance?
f. Wrap-Up
g. Should we explore the topic of maintenance O & M in the workshop—responsibility of
who?
Winter Road Maintenance Workshop
a. Quick overview of past workshop experience
b. Feedback from participants
c. Plans for 2016 – public workshop? Private workshop?
Should we do both public and private?
Is there anyone else available? Will it be the same material they covered 4 years ago?
Is there an audience again to do the private one?
Contact a lawyer—what is the due diligence?
Does Jessica think it’s worth to do again?
Contact schools for private
September and December
Survey/questionnaire?
License—is a license possible for ice/snow?
d. Preferred workshop dates and locations
Appleton is in the middle—Grand Chute?
Videos
a. Interest in pursuing this option? Volunteers?
Should we just do it? Doesn’t seem to be well received.
X-Cal Videos
a. Aware of these? Experience with them?
Contact Combined Locks or Little Chute for X-Cal videos
Municipal Facility Stormwater Plans Workshop
a. Interest in municipal facility SWPPP development and inspection training?
Too early.
Meet again in early January.
Genevieve- Delaware, DNR (have this training been put on before)
Jeff- Indiana, Minnesota, Colorado, INECA
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