UTCWPC MEETING
NOTES
February 25, 2010
This is a recap of the February 25th
meeting and some items have been dropped
if they were covered in the June 10th meeting notes.
The Upper Tallapoosa Clean
Water Partnership Committee met on Thursday, February 25, 2010, in Wedowee
at the Randolph County 911 Office Building. Attendees included Dawn
Stevens, ACWP Facilitator, Missy Middlebrooks,
ADEM, Sheila Smith and Stephanie
Kirby, APC, Terry Lovvorn, Randolph County
Commissioner, Sherry Lovvorn, D.
J. Hammett, Gleason Pool,
Floyd Davis, Bob Woolery,
John Swann, Charles Sut Smith.
Bank Account: D. J. Hammett
reported that $1,819.70 was in the UTCWPC bank account.
ADEM: Missy reported that the Little Tallapoosa River
in Cleburne/Randolph County is on the 2010 ADEM Draft
303(d) list for pathogens (the one that Ga EPD
is currently addressing on Georgia
side of Stateline Road.
Sut Smith has provided ADEM a list of streams in the Upper Tallapoosa Watershed
that should be considered in the next ADEM water quality study.
Sut Smith: ACWP conservation kits and drawings were given
to Kim Heard, fourth grade teacher at Wedowee
Middle School in Randolph County,
to use in her classroom with science students. Ms. Heard loves her
science class and was especially grateful for the kits.
Sut announced that he and Jack Duncan would build a cardboard boat to
represent the LWPOA
in the Animal Shelter fund raiser. Update:
The red Comet finished third overall in the main race.
Alabama Power:
Sheila Smith reported that 238
participant hours were used to remove 5.5 tons of debris from Lake Wedowee
during the October, 2009 lake clean-up. Since 2001, 98.55 tons of debris
has been removed from Lake
Wedowee. The next
Lake Wedowee Renew Our Rivers event will be September 29 through October 2nd.
Marlon Glover will be the designated LWPOA clean-up chairman for 2010.
There continues to be
discussion about sedimentation in Lake
Wedowee. Sheila says that
property owners can request a permit for casual silt removal around docks but a
larger scale of dredging from the river/lake may take Corps of Engineer
approval. The issue continues to be confusing. Maybe we can get
an official letter from Alabama
Power with the procedure and conditions required to request for silt removal
permit.
Randolph County Commission:
Mr. Lovvorn commented that the RC recycling program
was at a standstill for now. There was also discussion for a RC
workshop for erosion/sedimentation maybe late summer.
Charles
Sut Smith
June 16, 2010