Suwannee-Satilla and GA coastal river water councils in Dublin, GA 2016-11-17

Next month, once again the upper Suwannee that drains into the Gulf gets pulled into a meeting with coastal Georgia Water Planning Councils. This is the meeting that got delayed by hurricane.

GA DNR, Bulletin, 18 October 2016,

Joint Regional Water Planning Council Meeting NEW DATE: November 17, 2016

Georgia Department of Natural Resources sent this bulletin at 10/18/2016 09:18 AM EDT

NOTICE:

JOINT REGIONAL WATER PLANNING COUNCIL MEETING

Announcement Date: October 18, 2016

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND PARTIES:

A Joint Council Meeting will be held for the Altamaha, Coastal Georgia, Middle Ocmulgee, Savannah-Upper Ogeechee, Suwannee-Satilla and Upper Oconee Regional Water Planning Councils at the following date, time, and location:

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Meeting: 10:00 A.M. — 4:00 P.M.
Registration begins at 9:30 A.M.

DuBose Porter Center
Oconee Fall Line Technical College (South Campus)

560 Pinehill Road
Dublin, GA 31021

This is the meeting originally scheduled for October but postponed by the hurricane.

For additional information about the Joint Council Meeting, please contact:

Jennifer Welte, Georgia EPD Watershed Protection Branch, (404) 463-1694, jennifer.welte@dnr.ga.gov

Assuming the schedule is still the same, here is the previous GA DNR Bulletin, 27 September 2016, Statewide Water Plan – Joint Council Meeting #2 Agenda – October 6 / Dublin, GA,

Joint Council Meeting #2 — Eastern Councils
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Dubose Porter Center
Oconee Fall Line Technical College
560 Pinehill Road
Dublin, GA 31021

Agenda

9:30 — 10:00Registration/Meet & Mingle
10:00 — 10:10Welcome and Introductions
10:10 — 10:30Update from Metro North Georgia Water Planning District
10:30 — 10:40Move to Breakout Sessions
10:40 — 12:20Joint Council Breakout Sessions A and B: Resource Assessments

Session A: Altamaha, Middle Ocmulgee, and Upper Oconee Councils + members of Suwannee- Satilla Council

10:40 — 11:30 Surface Water Availability
Facilitated discussion of future condition results and Q&A with Dr. Zeng (EPD)

11:30 — 12:20 Water Quality / Assimilative Capacity
Facilitated discussion of future condition results and Q&A with Dr. Booth (EPD)

Session B: Coastal and Savannah-Upper Ogeechee Councils + members of Suwannee-Satilla Council

10:40 — 11:30 Water Quality / Assimilative Capacity
Facilitated discussion of future condition results and Q&A with Dr. Booth (EPD)

11:30 — 12:20 Surface Water Availability
Facilitated discussion of future condition results and Q&A with Dr. Zeng (EPD)

12:20 — 1:15Lunch Buffet
1:15 — 2:30Individual Council Meetings
2:30 — 2:40Move to Joint Council Session
2:40 — 4:00Joint Council Session
4:00Adjourn

Presumably they scheduled this one at the last one back in June. Apparently we get dragged into a meeting of all regional councils with waters flowing into the Atlantic because the Suwannee-Satilla RWPC includes much of the Satilla and St Marys Rivers, even though most of the SSRWPC territory is in our Upper Suwannee watershed. A tiny bit of our Little River Watershed is in Wilcox County, which is in the Altamaha RWPC. This time they provided a map.

-jsq

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