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BLUFF POINT PUD The results of an informal poll of Dividing Creek Association Members taken at our recent Spring Picnic are as follows: 35 members participated in the poll. 31 members oppose the Bluff Point PUD in its entirity. 0 members for the Bluff Point PUD. 4 members requested more information before responding. 2 members had no opinion. The remainder to the picnic attendees chose not to respond to the poll.
At this time the Bluff Point PUD is still being studied by our Northumberland County Board of Supervisors. Our own Wicomico District Supervisor and fellow Dividing Creek Association member, Mr. Tommy Tomlin has requested that all members of the association write or email all of the Northumberland County Board of Supervisors voicing their opinion either For or Against the Bluff Point PUD Project.
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** In 2007, the Virginia
General Assembly enacted a law to establish a boating safety
education compliance requirement. The requirement for boating
safety education is phased-in over several years and applies to
all PWC operators and operators of motorboats of 10hp and
greater according to the following schedule:
The Citizen Water Quality Monitoring Group is beginning a new phase in their monitoring program. The Monitoring Teams will be monitoring from both docks and boats on our creeks rather than strictly from boats on the water as in the years past. The teams have taken this coarse of action after experiencing difficulties getting out on the water last year due to the weather. For this reason the Group is requesting anyone who would be interested in, or would desire having a Monitoring Team (2 fellow DCA Members) use their dock once a month for approximately 30 to 45 minutes for the purpose of monitoring please contact Skip Kramb the Quality Assurance Officer to set this up. No one from the Water Monitoring Group will be authorized to enter anyone's property with explicit permission from the property owner to do this monitoring. No small advantage to participating in this project is that you will receive an analysis of the creek water at the end of your dock. All DCA Member Monitors are certified by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and this monitoring analysis is completely free of charge and occurs on a scheduled monthly basis. Skip Kramb may be contacted as follows:
************* CITIZEN VOLUNTEER WATER QUALITY MONITORING GROUP Organizational Meeting Minutes The meeting was held on Saturday, March 20th at 10:00AM at Skip Kramb's Home. In attendance were Mr. James Beckley, Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Environmental Quality, Quality Assurance Coordinator; Richard Hinch, DCA Citizen Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Project Manager; Skip Kramb, Quality Analyst and Team #3 Leader; Monitoring Team #1, Ran Marshall, Monitor; Team #2 Richard Hinch, Team Leader; Nan Flynn, Team #4 Leader. Also in Attendance were Barry Anderson, John Kelley, Paul Rockerfeller and Bill Whitney. Two new Oakton pHTestr 30 pH probes have been added to our monitoring equipment inventory giving use a total of four of the new digital pH Meters. We also have purchased a new DO 300 Dissolved Oxygen Meter giving us a total of three of these digital meters. This will provide each of our four teams with their own pH meter and the two teams, Team 1 & 2, on Dividing Creek their own Dissolved Oxygen Meter, this year. Teams 3 & 4 on Jarvis and Prentice Creeks will each have a pH Meter, but will share our third DO 300, Dissolved Oxygen Meter. Mr. Beckley certified that all of the Dividing Creek Association, Citizen Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Equipment was operational and fell within the VA-DEQ and US-EPA required Monitoring Specifications. In addition Mr. Beckley conducted a live Monitoring session demonstrating the proper use and procedures for the operation and use of the monitoring equipment. This enabled Mr. Beckley to recertify all members of the Group present as VA-DEQ Certified Water Monitors. This certification enables each DCA, Certified Citizen Volunteer Water Monitoring Personnel to provide VA-DEQ recognized water monitoring services on any body of water within the Commonwealth of Virginia. It also provides the Certified Member the authority to certify additional monitoring personnel within the DCA Membership as required. Mr. Beckley also provided input, advice and VA-DEQ Approval on the Monitoring Group's monitoring plans for FY 2010. It was determined that after a very difficult 2009 Monitoring Year caused by high winds, rough water, an early cold snap in November and generally inclimate weather for on the water monitoring that monitoring for 2010 would be performed wherever possible from DCA Member docks. This will enable monitoring on a more scheduled basis and under less adverse conditions. This also falls more in line with the monitoring currently being performed by VA-DEQ and other Citizen Volunteer Personnel. This will entail obtaining permission from DCA Members for the use of their dock facilities, obtaining the GPS Coordinates of these facilities and entering this data into both our Data Base and that of VA-DEQ. Our team leaders are currently attempting to contact DCA Members to obtain the permissions to use their docks for monitoring purposes. It was agreed upon that the 2010 Monitoring Season would run on a monthly basis from April 1st through December 31st. We will monitor again this year with four teams consisting of two members working on each team. As last year we will monitor for E. coli Bacteria, Dissolved Oxygen, pH, Salinity, and Turbidity. We will also report on the physical aspects of the water at the time of monitoring as in the past year. It was also questioned as to whether the DCA, Citizen Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Group should begin monitoring the Barnes Creek Area of Indian Creek. It was determined that in view of the proposed Bluff Point Holdings PUD that this would be the time to establish Baseline Water Quality Readings for this area. The QA Officer agreed and he will investigate the feasibility of undertaking this additional project. The meeting was adjourned at 12:45
BLUFF POINT PUD
*********** Missing DCA Mailings
Have you been getting all of your DCA Email or Mail? If you have not we need to know in order to fix the problem. If you have you changed your email address, mailing address (moved, changed from street to P.O. address etc) you MUST NOTIFY US of your ADDRESS CHANGE for you to continue to get your Mail and/or Email. The Association Secretaries and your Webmaster report they have received numerous reports from DCA Members missing Mail and/or Email Information. They also report they receive numerous Email Postmaster Messages indicating your Email Account is either unreachable or nonexistent. YOU MUST INCLUDE DCA IN YOUR SPAM BLOCKER/FIREWALL SETTINGS! We really do want to keep you informed of our activities.
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