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MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF WATERSHED DISTRICTS, Inc. ee ' r e re ° i a c ee Thursday, December 2, 2004 3:00 p.m. Director's Meeting 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Registration, Trade Show Floor 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. MAWD Trade Show -Tennis Center REGISTER FOR DOOR PRIZES!!! 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Concurrent General Session I SeminarA Management & Inventory Tool For Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems Part I Hear how a consortium of counties and other key partners developed a perfonnance- based code for onsite wastewater treatment regulation. The code is built on the concept of"performance management" which includes not only the treatment performance of systems themselves, but also the performance of system owners, practitioners, and regulators, all of whom have defined roles, responsibilities, and performance expectations. Presenter: Dick Otis, Ayres Associates Part II Lakes Area Proposed Sanitary District Thirty Lakes WD and Crow Wing County established a joint powers board to conduct a feasibility management study for the establishment of a decentralized sanitary management district for all the onsite/cluster wastewater systems with the proposed district. Presenter: Craig Gilbertson, Ayres Associates Seminar B The Complexity of Determining Ecological Stressors in Hardwood Creek In 2003, the Rice Creek Watershed District began conducting the state's first Fish IBI TMDL study on Hardwood Creek. Although bioassessments such as IBI's are useful for identifying biological nnpairments, they do not identify the causes of impairment. Linking biological effects with their causes is particularly complex because multiple stressors can impact a waterbody. A critical task in developing a TMDL to address a biologic impairment is identifying the cause of the impairment. This process is known as "stressor identification." This approach examines potential cause and effect relationships between environmental degradation and biological response. After examining the chemical, physical, and geomorphologic data in the context of the biological responses, certain parameters were immediately eliminated as being stressors while others were identified as potential stressors. This allowed us to focus our monitoring efforts on key parameters needed to accurately identify the stressors in Hardwood Creek. Presenter: Marcey L. Westrick, Aquatic Ecologist ,Emmons and Olivier Resources, Inc. Chuck Johnson, Aquatic Biologist, Rice Creek Watershed District Seminar C MPCA Stormwater Technical Update "The best of urban. Stormwater impacts" as compiled from recent talks by Tom Schueler (Center for Watershed Protection), Wisconsin's Roger Bannerman (WDNR researcher) and John Barters (Three Rivers Park District) and others. Presenter: Bruce Wilson, MPCA 8:00 p.m. Welcome Reception -Trade Show Floor -REGISTER FOR DOOR PRIZES! I !