By: Libi Uremovic| Original Article at Patch.com
From: “Joseph Zoba” <jz***@yv**.us>
Subject: RE: 2015 Maximum Benefit Monitoring Program Work Plan
Date: September 24, 2014 at 2:22:13 PM PDT
To: “Samantha Adams” <sadams@xx>
Cc: “Mark Wildermuth, PE” <mwildermuth@xx>, “Kurt Berchtold” <kb********@wa*********.gov>, “Eric Fraser” <er*********@bc***.org>, “Kyle Warsinski” <ky***@be*********.gov>, “Kristen Frankforter” <kf**********@yv**.us>, “Jennifer Ares” <ja***@yv**.us>, “Duane Burk” <db***@ci.us>, “Jeff Davis” <JD****@sg***.com>, “Hope Smythe” <hs*****@wa*********.gov>
Samantha – I just received the copy of the letter from the City of Beaumont dated September 17, 2014 sent out by email on September 24, 2014 in your email message below. If a copy of this letter was sent previously to the Yucaipa Valley Water District, I apologize for not addressing this issue sooner.
Was the letter from the City of Beaumont dated September 17th distributed at the Monitoring Planning meeting held that same day at the City of Beaumont? Have others received a copy of the letter prior to today?
I am trying to reconcile the letter dated September 17, 2014 from the City of Beaumont with the letter from the Regional Water Quality Control Board dated September 3, 2014 (attached). What is the Regional Board’s position on your letter dated September 17th? Have you received a response?
As you are aware, the Yucaipa Valley Water District and the other parties have been actively engaged in the review and preparation of the groundwater and surface water planning document for the STMZ, YMZ and BMZ to meet the deadline next week. However, as more information becomes available, I am discovering arrangements, discussions and plans by the City of Beaumont that the Yucaipa Valley Water District and possibly the other parties are not a privy to.
I am sure you can appreciate my frustration of being held responsible for the activities in the region, but not having access to all of the information between the City of Beaumont and the Regional Water Quality Control Board that impacts the YVWD.
From the correspondence from the City of Beaumont dated September 17, 2014, I noticed that a consultant (presumably Wildermuth Environmental) is “…currently using the Wasteload Allocation Model to determine the efficacy of the proposed effluent discharge plan at DP 001, DP 007, DP 009, DP 010 and DP 011, and [the consultant] has developed a proposed TDS management plan to quantify excess TDS loads to the BMZ and STMZ and the desalting requirements to assure that the wastewater desalter facilities will offset the excess TDS loads time certain.”
I need a copy of the proposed TDS management plan prepared by the City of Beaumont immediately to complete my review of the Maximum Benefit Monitoring Program documentation!
This information should have been disclosed to the parties of the surface water and ground water monitoring program. Are you using data and information collected by other parties to support the WLAM for the benefit the City of Beaumont? If you are involved in the WLAM, please provide me copies of the Wildermuth Environmental scope of services for the WLAM, when the contract was approved by the City of Beaumont, and the work products so I can better understand the level of effort of the WLAM by Wildermuth and the City of Beaumont related to the data others are providing for the proposed maximum benefit monitoring plan.
Additionally, I am unclear how the WLAM is consistent with the Basin Plan amendment. During our meetings with the Regional Board, it was my understanding that we reached a consensus to conform to the maximum benefit objectives in the BMZ, STMZ and YMZ as provided in the Basin Plan amendment and not create separate compliance plans such as WLAM without a regional consensus?
Please advise.
Joe
Joseph Zoba, General Manager
Yucaipa Valley Water District