January 24, 2001
The Santa Rosa County Stormwater Task Force met on the above date with the following members present: Chairman Geoffrey Maddux, Jack Sanborn, Karla Cook, Kathi Martin, Debbie Dawsey, Vernon Compton, Alan Miller, Steve Duncan, John Harper and Wayne Newsome. Dr. Joe Lepo, Hunter Walker, County Administrator, and Roger Blaylock, County Engineer, were also present. Chairman Maddux called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m.
Duncan moved approval of December 18, 2000 minutes, which was seconded
by Sanborn and carried by unanimous vote.
The board engaged in a
roundtable discussion and decided to merge Newsome's memorandum into Sisskin's outline. The board suggested having five
outlining categories incorporating Newsome's memorandum item numbers as
categorized below:
MASTER PLAN
1. Adopt levels of
service for stormwater quantity and quality. In other
words, the County should identify clear and attainable objectives and identify
how progress toward attainment of those goals will be measured.
3. Identify and monitor stormwater runoff from high-risk (high hazard potential)
industries that are not currently covered by a separate stormwater
NPDES permit.
4. Prepare a county-wide stormwater management plan, tat
incorporates basin-specific master plans.
5. Concurrent with
development of the basin-specific master plans, there should be estimates of
expenditure necessary to implement measures identified in the master plan,
along with identification of potential funding sources and the revenue
potential of each.
10. Establish a
county-wide wetland mapping program that includes an assessment of the quality
of each wetland as it relates to potential water quality benefit, potential
habitat, etc.
11. Develop a program to
identify non-stormwater discharges to the County
storm sewer system and adopt measures that will provide legal authority to
prohibit those discharges and punish offenders.
The board agreed the
objectives were funding, finding problem areas and mapping outfalls.
PUBLIC
EDUCATION
6. Develop a program to minimize the use of herbicides, pesticides,
and fertilizers as part of the County's overall maintenance plan.
8. Establish a stormwater citizens advisory
council who will be responsible for educating the public regarding stormwater.
The board agreed the
objective is quality literature. The board discussed receiving help from
Extension Services, the Conservation District, 4H Club and the University of
Florida.
NEW CONSTRUCTION/LDC
2. Control stormwater runoff (including an effective sediment and
erosion control program) for new development.
9. Develop incentives for
tree preservation and encourage green space, regardless of zoning or use of the
property.
The board discussed
design flexibility, control of stormwater runoff
vegetative barriers and tree ordinances.
The board suggested strengthening recommendations to developers.
RETROFITTING
7. Develop procedures for
maintenance of roads that will minimize erosion potential and the transport of
sediments into adjacent water bodies and wetlands.
12. The County should
adopt incentives for those existing residences and businesses whose properties
immediately adjoin water bodies to encourage participating in a program to restore
the riparian shoreline, and provide treatment of stormwater
from lawns, etc, and encourage alternate vegetative plantings of native
species, minimizing or eliminating the use of fertilizers for lawns, etc. For
new development, provide for buffers immediately adjacent to water bodies.
The board agreed Public
Works would deal with these issues.
AGRICULTURE
6. Develop a program to
minimize the use of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers as part of the
County's overall maintenance plan.
Discussion took place
among board members concerning BPMs. The board agreed
that BMPs could be subheadings under each category.
Discussions also took
place with concerns of isolated wetlands and how surrounding counties and
states are dealing with water quality.
The next meeting will be
March 13, 2001 at 5:00 p.m.
Meeting adjourned at 6:59 p.m.