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Gallatin River Task Force Meeting

Unifying efforts to address water resources in Big Sky and surrounding areas, identifying water issues and implementing effective solutions for a model mountain community.

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Gallatin River Task Force Meeting

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  1. Gallatin River Task Force Meeting Vision: Big Sky strives to be a model mountain community by protecting and improving water resources, sustaining ecological health of the watersheds, and supporting a vibrant local economy. October 3, 2017 Big Sky Sustainable Water Solutions Forum

  2. Big Sky Area Public Water and Sewer Service Moonlight Basin USFS Wilderness Big Sky Resort US Forest Service Yellowstone Club MT FWP Spanish Peaks Conservation

  3. Big Sky Sustainable Water Solutions Forum PURPOSE(S): • Unify efforts to address water resources for the Big Sky area and surrounding zone of influence. • Provide a framework and process to identify common ground, water issues, and effective solutions. • Support community implementation of the solutions

  4. Big Sky Sustainable Water Solutions Forum Structure & Roles Community/ Members of the Public • Gallatin River Task Force • Host • Community Outreach • Big Sky Sustainable Water Solutions Forum Stakeholders • Wide spectrum of perspectives • Shares expertise • Works collaboratively • Identifies issues and feasible solutions • Partners with the Community to implement • Advisory Committee • Ensures effective process • Questions • Ideas • Feedback • Engagement • Implementation • Consultants • Supports Effort

  5. Water Resources Challenges in Big Sky • Limited water supply • Limited current capacity to address water supply and sanitation needs • Cumulative impacts from past and current activities • Impairments to water quality • Drought and climactic variability and change • Limited community understanding of water resources challenges • Fragmented political, management, and ownership boundaries across portions of the headwaters of the Madison and Gallatin watersheds

  6. Overall Vision:Big Sky strives to be a model mountain community by protecting and improving water resources, sustaining ecological health of the watersheds, and supporting a vibrant local economy.Goals: Develop and implement wastewater management to meet community needs and protect and improve the ecological health of the river systems. Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Manage and balance surface and groundwater supplies for human and natural communities. Water Supply and Availability Maintain and enhance streams, riparian areas and wetlands. Water remains clean and cold. Ecological Health

  7. Ecological Health of River Systems Priorities • Watershed Status and Trends Monitoring Program • Scientifically monitor and track important parameters for ecological health • Watershed Status and Trends Dashboard • Share information with the community and provide a basis for action if some component of the river system is not healthy • Watershed Restoration and Conservation • Address existing water quality impairments • Protect the existing high-quality resources

  8. Water Supply and Availability Priorities • Monitoring and Modeling • Know what we have for water supply • Protect the Meadow Village aquifer and other locally important aquifers • Outreach and Incentives for Conservation • Maximize use of the limited, valuable water in the system • Stormwater • “Slow the flow” of water running through the system • Wastewater reuse • Reclaim a valuable resource • Mitigation

  9. Wastewater Treatment and Reuse • Treat water to high standards • Address septic and onsite system impacts • Expand reuse treated water for irrigation • Snowmaking with reused water

  10. Watershed Stewardship Plan • Develop a collaborative solution for addressing current and future water needs for both the natural and human communities. • Develop an implementation plan with short-term and long-term actions. • Develop a framework for accountability, transparency and adaptive management.

  11. Framework for Implementation: Why Do We Need This? • Identified gaps in knowledge that need to be filled before further actions can be undertaken • Change – both anticipated and unknown • Response to feedback • Coordination • Accountability

  12. Framework for Implementation:Options • Monitoring and Assigned Actions • MOU • Good neighbor agreement • Standing Council (likely under watershed group) • Expand BSWSD and/or other utility management • Establish a Montana Water Conservancy • Incorporate

  13. Gallatin River Task Force Role in Implementation Discussion: • Specific actions within priorities • Role in framework for implementation

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