Project Planning- we will shoot for completion of Task 5 Indicator Targets by end of May, be working on Task 6 Draft Scorecard Content in June. Plan to have something drafted for review by others by July and do review through December. See the latest Project Tasks and Timeline chart.

Scheduled Meetings-

Conference call check-in on 5/27 at 10 am

In-person Project Team meeting being set for one of these dates:

6/16 between 10-3

6/17 early PM

6/18 late morning

6/20 between 10 and 3

Decisions:

The Latest Indicator Table uses grey and tan colors to identify those indicators we probably can't do, and white are the ones that are looking do-able. Grey are those indicators that reply on ongoing updates to a land use spatial data layer. Please refer to that document for more information.

Here's what will be done by the next check-in meeting on May 27 (@ 10:00):

Stream Flow and Supply

Runoff coefficient:

• Alex will get Bob’s methods and test on Sonoma Creek gage data (RO/net rainfall. subtracting out the no-runoff years).

 
Dry Season Flow:

• Alex will look at our low flow/ dry-reach monitoring data, decide how to clean it and if it can be efficiently sent to Peter.
• Peter thinks this is valuable citizen-monitoring data with a nice story to tell, and he will work on it.
• Bob has explored a dry season flow metric defined by the ratio of total June-Sept runoff to the total precip for the water year, which relates reasonably well to rainfall (unlike no. of zero flow days).  He will discuss with Alex and if desired share with Alex for a possible Sonoma trial.  Like the runoff coefficient, this is still not likely to be a hard metric, but it probably has some value.
  

Storage

Groundwater Storage:

• Alex will get info out of the Sonoma Valley GW Mgt Plan and ask Tim Parker about well monitoring data, what it looks like and aggregation over time.
• Peter and Alex will talk about interpretation of this indicator as a measure of sustainability- are we drawing more from the GW account over time?
• Alex, Lisa- Bob wants to know is there anything for him on groundwater storage in Napa, or is it better to wait till Alex & Peter have completed the bulleted items for Sonoma?   
  

 

Stewardship

Demand on GW Resources:

• Alex will ask Tim Parker about permits for drilling and re-completions, and how to judge a good vs. bad scope using these data.
• Peter will apply what has already been done in the Bay Area, with thought about how to get at the irrigation fraction.

 Imports:

• Bob will develop a metric of total annual imported water in relationship to population or alternatively to total water use.
  Note:  We talked about this indicator showing vulnerability, but didn't think about how that works.
  

To think about for All Indicators:

1.    What is the time frame for the Current metric?  The most recent year, or the average of several recent years?
2.    What is the time frame for comparison?
Unless someone has a specific suggestion, Bob will aim to come up with numbers for 2-3 recent years and for several years at some distance in the past, perhaps 10 years ago, and experiment with different combinations & comparisons.