Final Public Meeting to be held September 17!

2007-08-14T13:40:21-05:00

Hi everyone!

The final public meeting date has been set. We’ve been chugging away at the watershed characterization and modeling based on feedback from the technical advisory committee meeting in February and finally have some results about ready to show you!

The final public meeting will be held on September 17th at 7 pm at the Cedar Bluff Town Hall (115 Central Ave, Cedar Bluff, Virginia).

We’ll be presenting the reduction scenarios we’ve determined from modeling and handing out copies of the executive summary of the TMDL report. A little closer to the meeting time I’ll have the full report available for you to download here, so check back in a couple weeks.

As some of you may have heard, I have actually moved to England at this point, so my boss, Dr. Brian Benham, will be presenting the information at the public meeting. I hope you’ll all come out and hear what he has to say!

-Becky

First Technical Advisory Committee Meeting and Public Meeting to be held February 22!

2007-01-31T09:39:48-05:00

Hello everyone!

First, let me introduce myself. I am Becky Zeckoski, a research associate in Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. I am a member of the Center for TMDL and Watershed Studies here. I will be leading the development of the bacteria TMDL for Indian Creek.

The first technical advisory committee (TAC) meeting for Indian Creek will be held on February 22nd at 3 pm at the Cedar Bluff Town Hall (115 Central Ave, Cedar Bluff, Virginia). At the TAC meeting we will be discussing the methodology for data collection and analysis in detail. For example, I will discuss how we go about estimating animal numbers for the TMDL. Even if you don’t consider yourself a ‘technical’ person, if you have good knowledge of human and/or animal populations and activities in the watershed, please plan to attend this meeting to help us develop better estimates for the watershed! We also look to the TAC to give us good people to contact to get more information on various topics. So if you know about people who know a lot about the watershed, we will appreciate it if you can share their names.

The first public meeting will be held on the same day (Feb. 22nd) at 7 pm, also at the Cedar Bluff Town Hall. The public meeting is more of an information-sharing event. We’ll present whatever estimates we have ready at the time and a very broad overview of our methodology for the TMDL (much less detailed than the TAC meeting). We welcome feedback on anything and everything related to the TMDL at the public meeting.

Both of these meetings are open to anyone who is interested in attending. As the meetings draw closer and I have more information available, I’ll be posting the handouts for the meetings up here on the forum, so check back closer to the 22nd!

-Becky

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