Tahoe Basin Interagency Road Maintenance
and Operations Committee
Objectives: To identify and seek alignment of "Best"
management practices and design standards in an effort to
minimize the impacts road operation and maintenance have on
the environment in the basin, and to reduce review efforts
by regulatory agencies.
Subcommittees:
- Tahoe Interagency Runoff Subcommittee (TIRS)
- Integrated Traffic Operations
- Aesthetics Criteria
- Winter Maintenance Operations
- Bikeway Construction Operation and Maintenance
Lead Agency: Nevada Department of Transportation
Contact(s): Rick Nelson, NDOT, (775) 834-8300, rnelson@dot.state.nv.us
Chairpersonship rotates annually
Status: Active
Calendar: Meets last Tuesday of first month of the
quarter (January, April, July, October.)
Performance Review Committee
Objective Summary: To improve maintenance activity
effort to keep capital improvements functional. Aimed largely
at county public works departments. Also concerned with commercial
and tourism allocation issues.
Objectives: This group is driven by TRPA Ordinance 33.2.B(5)(b)(ii) which requires each county and the CSLT to
demonstrate adequate maintenance of water quality facilities
prior to receiving 100% of the respective jurisdiction´s
residential allocation for development.
Remarks: The maintenance requirement is one of several
criteria established in the ordinance that must be met for
each jurisdiction to receive the full residential allocation.
The demonstration requirement is currently on a two-year review
process schedule.
Lead Agency: TRPA
Contact(s): Paul Nielson, 775-588-4547
Status: Meetings every two years
Calendar: Summer or Fall 2000 meeting to be scheduled.
Large Project Water Quality BMP Maintenance
Group
Objective Summary: to improve maintenance activity
effort to keep capital improvements functional. Aimed largely
at private properties with uses containing large areas of
impervious coverage, and uses with a high potential to degrade
water quality.
Objective: See above. This group is driven by TRPA
1996 Threshold Evaluation recommendations to maintain treatment
effectiveness of water quality facilities, and TRPA´s
Work Program which recently established Work Element 28 –
EIP Operations and Maintenance. Program development is currently
stalled pending consensus of the program´s target projects/properties/land
uses ("Large project" has yet to be defined, therefore
the target of this group is not established.)
Remarks: The perceived overlap with the Tahoe Basin
Interagency Road Maintenance and Operations Committee and
other maintenance efforts diminishes as this group´s
effort comes into focus. This group´s objective is evolving
towards development of a program which will address operations
and maintenance needs of environmental improvement facilities
Region wide.
Lead Agency: TRPA
Contact(s): Jon Paul Kiel, 775-588-4547, jpkiel@trpa.org
Steve Chilton, 775-588-4547
Status: On hiatus pending completion of revised TRPA
work program elements.
Calendar: No meetings scheduled at this time.
Erosion Control TAC
Objectives: To set policy for development and review
of erosion control projects, and evaluate their effectiveness.
Also, to act as a forum for new approaches and techniques
for erosion control and water quality treatment.
Remarks: Overlap of this past TAC with Research and
Monitoring Subcommittee and TBI Runoff and Treatment Group
currently exists. It is possible that this group could reconvene
to review erosion control projects, possibly on a project-by-project
basis. This TAC has completed objectives for project review
and monitoring criteria which should be used by other subgroups.
Lead Agency: TRPA since 1995. Previous Lead –LTBMU,
Sue Norman, Santini-Burton program.
Contact(s): Larry Benoit, 775-588-4547.
Status: Inactive since March 25, 1996.
Calendar: No meetings proposed at
this time.
Revegetation TAC (Tahoe Basin Revegetation
Group)
Objectives: To encourage information sharing on revegetation,
evaluate successful techniques and plant materials for revegetation,
and to encourage revegetation as a cost-effective means of
erosion control.
Lead Agency: TRPA
Contact(s): Larry Benoit, 775-588-4547
Status: Active.
Calendar: No routine meeting schedule established
at this time.
Shorezone Review Committee
Objectives: Coordination of shorezone project review
and enforcement activities by shorezone agencies. Project
level decisions predominate. There is less policy level discussions/decisions
with this group.
Lead Agency: TRPA
Contact: Jon Paul Harries, (775) 588-4547
Status: Active.
Calendar: Meets every third Thursday of each month.
Upper Truckee Focused Watershed Group
Objective Summary: To use the Upper Truckee watershed
as a focus and model watershed to coordinate activities aimed
largely at the protection and enhancement of water quality
in the watershed, and ultimately, Lake Tahoe. To design an
action or watershed plan which may be applied to all watersheds
in the Region.
Objectives:
- Assessment of the current conditions of watershed
resources.
- Obtain commitments of the Federal, State, and local
agencies, as well as local groups, and residents.
- Identify watershed improvement needs, including management
and physical needs.
- Develop coordinated Action Plan to address needs.
- Identify available and potential resources ($, labor,
etc.)
- Implement Action Plan
- Monitor and assess.
- Adjust actions as needed.
Subcommittees:
- Education and Outreach Subcommittee :Goal Statement:
Enhance coordination and development of education and
outreach programs which promote community involvement
to achieve greater watershed awareness and function.
- Evaluation Subcommittee: Goal Statement: Evaluate
water quality response at different scales of watershed
management efforts in order to develop more effective
implementation strategies.
- Restoration Subcommittee: Goal Statement: Describe
the physical watershed condition and solutions for restoration
of watershed function (related to water quality) to the
fullest extent possible.
Remarks: Tahoe Citizens Environmental Action Network
evolved from the Education and Outreach subcommittee.
The evaluation and restoration subcommittees are currently
inactive.
Lead Agency: California Regional Water Quality Control
Board- Lahontan
Contact(s): Dale Payne, 530-542-5400,
Status: Active, currently working on ACOE Upper Truckee
River watershed plan.
Calendar: Meets bimonthly on the first Thursday of
the month.
