DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION
TRI-COUNTY WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT BOARD MEETING

Monday, June 29, 1998 - 7:00 p.m.

Building No. 1 Conference Room
Camden County Complex
Lindenwold, NJ

AGENDA


1. Introduction of New Members:

James Reynolds & Marc Riondino: City of Camden

2. Minutes of the Meeting of February 14, 1998

AMENDMENT REPORT ITEMS

3. Grasso Foods, Inc. - DEP requested revisions

4. Medford Lakes Borough - DEP requested revisions

DISCUSSION ITEMS

5. Amendment Status Report - May 1998

  1. CCMUA (see Tri-County letter in Information Items)
  2. GCUA - DEP letter re: status of water allocation in Maurice River Basin
  3. Other Status Changes

6. Water Supply Critical Area No. 2 - Update - Art Shearman NJAWC

  1. Tri-County Water Supply Project - discussion with NJAWC re: system configuration in Gloucester County
  2. Bulk Rate Coalition Negotiations
  3. Deptford Township MUA - Mt. Laurel Wenonah Well request (see DRBC Dockets)

7. BOMARC Site Inquiry - Steve McClure

8. Watershed Planning (materials to be distributed at meeting)

  1. Rancocas Creek Watershed (Watershed Area 18)
  2. Lower Delaware River Tributaries (Watershed Area 19)

9. Preliminary Discussion of CY99 Work Program

10. Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Update (materials to be distributed at meeting)

11. INFORMATION ITEMS

  1. Newspaper Articles

    "Dept. Of Health finds contaminants in water supplies" - Bridgeton News, February 24, 1998.
    "Mercury warning issued" - Bridgeton News, February 25, 1998.
    "Officials try to quell well-water fears" - Atlantic City Press, February 26, 1998.
    "Cape May's last well is going salty" - Atlantic City Press, April 2, 1998.
    "Wetlands proposal advances" - The Trenton Times, April 6, 1998.
    "Suburban septic tanks can be public-health land mines" - Philadelphia Inquirer, May 26, 1998.
    "Pink isn't pretty to N.J. developers" - Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1, 1998.

  2. Spatial Variability of Volatile Organic Compounds in Streams on Long Island, New York, and in New Jersey, USGS, NAWQA Long Island-New Jersey Study Unit, Fact Sheet FS-194-97.

    "Wastewater Nutrients: Why Limits Are Sometimes Needed" - Small Flows, Winter 1998.
    "Conservation rates in the real world" - Journal AWWA, February 1998.
    "EPA Survey Shows $140 Billion Needed To Meet Wastewater Needs" - Water Environment & Technology, February 1998.
    "Trading Cards May Turn Operations Challenge Into Serious Exchange" - WEF Highlights, February 1998.
    "Dirty Water In Paradise" - Governing, April 1998.
    "Better water through vegetation" - CE News, April 1998.

  3. Delaware River Basin Commission Dockets

    1. Mount Holly Water Company, Ground Water Withdrawal - Westampton and Mount Holly Townships, Burlington County
    2. Borough of Clementon, Ground Water Withdrawal - Camden County
    3. Deptford Township Municipal Utilities Authority, Ground Water Withdrawal - Deptford Township, Gloucester County

  4. Summary of Monthly Hydrologic Conditions

    1. January 1998
    2. February 1998
    3. March 1998

ENCLOSURES

1. Minutes of the Meeting of February 17, 1998
2. Amendment Revisions and Fact Sheets
3. Amendment Status Report
4. Information Items (see Agenda # 11)