Welcome Back!

1. Welcome Back!

2. Brief Recap of Activities • 1st Large TJCOG Stakeholder Meeting (Sep 2010) • Compiled objectives (100’s!!) • Categorized/combined objectives into themes • Developed Wiki! • 3 Working Group Meetings (Oct 2010–Mar 2011) • Lake Monitoring • Existing Monitoring Efforts • Monitoring Framework/Adapting to Change • Working group recommended that TJCOG adapt their process to inform other objectives identified through TJCOG process (such as identifying sources and tracking effectiveness)

3. Brief Recap of Activities • 2nd Full Stakeholder Meeting (Sep 2011) • Came back to full group to explain changes • Updates from UNRBA, Watershed Oversight Committee, NSAB • Presented Monitoring Design Guidelines Template (MDGs) to help answer prioritized objectives with regard to (3) source identification and (4) management effectiveness. • Created 5 Subcommittees to develop Monitoring Design Guidelines • Ag, Background Sources, BMP Effectivness, Onsite Wastewater, and Stormwater and Existing D • Subcommittees meeting regularly since Sep to prioritize objectives and begin drafting MDGs.

4. Template for “Monitoring Design Guidelines” • Background on Issue/Problem Statement • Regulatory Context • Nutrient Markers & Sources • Existing Monitoring (studies or long-term) • Monitoring Design • Proposed Monitoring Activities or Studies • Where, frequency, type (surface, benthic, etc.) • Who would implement study/potential partnerships • QA/QC • Data coordination/use • Funding Opportunities • Public Education Components • Issues Around Uncertainty

5. Products and Outcomes so Far • Developed comprehensive list of monitoring objectives • Started wiki • Discussed/evaluated current lake monitoring efforts • Developed an inventory of monitoring activities • Developed conceptual monitoring framework • Met with DWQ to re-craft scope to focus on (3) source identification and (4) tracking management effectiveness • Modified deliverables to be set of “monitoring design guidelines”(as opposed to conceptural monitoring plan) • Determined process for developing “mon. design guidelines” • Set up subcommittees to develop MDGs • Subcommittees meeting regularly

6. Review what’s been done so far Go over how to use the wiki Give subcommittees an opportunity to share their progress and ideas for MDGs and get feedback from the group Give subcommittees the opportunity to ask for advice from others Give subcomittees time to collaborate where appropriate or delegate if there are overlaps Prepare for May meeting and develop questions about QAQC procedures Lay out next steps Purpose of Today’s Meeting? Triangle J Council of Governments

7. Subcommittee Presentations

8. BREAK!

9. Next Steps • Continue to work with subcommittees • Be sure to upload meeting summaries and draft documents to the wiki • Need to have Monitoring Design Guidelines completed by July 2012!! • May Meeting • Will include a discussion on QAQC procedures and getting feedback from DWQ • Consider ways to potentially coordinate with the NSAB or make research ideas and/or outcomes available to group.