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ATTENDEES
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| Name |
Organization |
| Sonia Nasser |
Chairman of DPH Water Quality
Task force County of Orange/Watershed and Coastal Resources |
| Max Andersen |
County of Orange/Watershed
and Coastal Resources |
| Kathy Barnum |
Kathy Barnum Public Relations |
| Dick Dietmeier |
South Coast Water District |
| Mike Dunbar |
South Coast Water District |
| Donna Ferguson |
County of Orange/HCA Public
Health Lab |
| Pat Fuscoe |
Fuscoe Engineering |
| Richard Gardner |
South Coast Water District |
| Dan Gee |
Ocean Institute |
| Richard Haimann |
County of Orange/Watershed
and Coastal Resources |
| Don Hanson |
Harbor Merchants Association |
| Dennis Kaiser |
Dana Point Pilot |
| Ed Knight |
City of Dana Point |
| Ed Labahn |
City of Dana Point Resident |
| Paul Lawrence |
County of Orange/Harbors
Beaches & Parks |
| Bill Layne |
Resident |
| Andrew Lissner |
Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC) |
| Barbara Manson |
County of Orange Planning
Commission |
| Monica Mazur |
County of Orange/Environmental
Health |
| Wayne Rayfield |
Dana Point City Council |
| Sgt. Donna Soto |
County of Orange Sheriff |
| Craig Stern |
Entre-Manure |
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Storm Drain Filters
The City of Dana Point reported
that their storm sewer filters have trapped over 50 tons of
material to date. They also reported that every month 10 to
30 tons of material is being picked up during street sweeping.
The County of Orange has installed filters in storm drains
at Dana Point Harbor. Some may not be in yet in all drains.
Action:
Richard Haimann of County
of Orange Watershed and Coastal Resources to request information
from County of Orange Operations, regarding which filters
have not yet been installed and when they will be installed
and report at next meeting.
AB 411 Monitoring
County of Orange Public Health shared microbiological sampling
data. The data suggested exceedences from sampling stations
around Baby Beach. It was noted that samples were typically
collected from upper 12 inches of water when collected in
deeper waters.
Dana Point city officials stated that the waterfall drain
(where exceedences were observed) is from a private community.
Upland of the private community are some city properties -
namely restaurants, who have been observed to wash down outside
before code enforcement hours.
Richard Gardner made a statement regarding high water clarity,
presence of fish, and the lack of visible benthic vegetative
growth.
Residents of Dana Point discussed the practices of pet owners
at the Headlands bluff above Baby Beach. It was stated that
pet owners tend to not pick up pet litter at that location.
City of Dana Point stated that Headlands development will
occur and the developers have agreed to put in "state
of the art" stormwater management facilities.
Entre-Manure has is in the business
of collecting and disposing of dog litter. They have a contract
with Laguna Beach and have collected 160 lbs. of dog waste
in four collections from two locations in Laguna Beach.
Dana Point officials stated that
there is an ordinance in City of Dana Point to clean up after
your pet. Violations are $50 citations. There is a $211 citation
for a leash ordinance violation.
City Officials stated that Dana
Point has a public education program - one item in the public
education program regards the necessity to pick up after one's
pet.
Ocean Institute
Dan Gee spoke about the Ocean Institute's constr`uction progress.
Ocean Institute has been under development for the past three
years. Dan Gee started about a year ago. They were about to
start construction and were about $2M over budget. They also
had a very environmentally sensitive and sustainable design.
All lumber was specified as farm grown. The heating coils
under the building required no fuel combustion. The stormwater
was to run through vegetated infiltration zones and a storm
receptor that would spin out and remove debris before discharging
into the Baby Beach area. They needed the $2M to proceed forward.
They picked 173 items to redesign in order to reduce costs.
They were able to meet their budget without raising additional
funds. One of the most significant changes was the parking
lot paving system. The original design called for crushed
decomposed granite for the parking lot, through which stormwater
would infiltrate. They discovered that the underlying soils
had permeabilities too low to allow infiltration. Additionally
the decomposed granite was of very high cost. They redesigned
the pavement system as asphalt. They retained stormceptor
concept and designed vegetated infiltration basins in border
and inter parking areas that drain into a storm sewer. The
stormceptor is at the lower reach of the storm sewer main.
They proceeded with construction with that design. They route
upland stormwater around the parking lot to the storm receptor.
Ocean Institute will monitor the
performance of the storm drain system. The parking lot will
be functional. As they monitor the stormwater system progress,
they will work to try to implement systems that solve stormwater
and harbor problems related to the location of Ocean Institute.
County of Orange stated that they would monitor the performance
of the Ocean Institute stormwater collection system for its
impact on the harbor water quality. County stated that they
have not yet developed the monitoring plan, but are in the
process of doing so.
City of Dana Point suggested that
during County monitoring of Ocean Institute stormwater system,
upstream testing in the curb to the north of the facility
that will capture run-on be monitored to determine what is
coming from upland areas and what is generated at the Ocean
Institute.
The City of Dana Point also suggested that there is a need
to establish some type of baseline condition for harbor water
quality before the Ocean institute installation. This is so
they can see the effectiveness of the Ocean Institute BMPs.
However, existing data may not be sufficient to establish
a baseline and the Ocean Institute is under construction at
this time. It was then suggested by the City of Dana Point
that the next viable alternative to determine the effectiveness
of the Ocean Institute stormwater management system will be
to compare Ocean Institute data to data from other nearby
parking lot storm sewer collection systems.
The City of Dana Point expressed
enthusiasm for the Ocean Institute project and suggested that
this project can be a benchmark that can be used to facilitate
similar practices at other projects over which the city or
the County has jurisdiction. The City would like to have documented
the cost-effectiveness of the Ocean Institute BMPs.
Ocean Institute stated that the
majority of the Ocean Institute parking lot would be complete
August 1. The new facility will be moved into no later than
the 15th of August.
Ocean Institute is keeping weekly
project photos. The County's Clean Beach Initiative Grant
is funding the BMPs for the Parking Lot.
Action:
County of Orange to develop monitoring plan for the Ocean
Institute Stormwater Collection system.
Baby Beach State
of the Beach Project
This is another project that is being funded by the County's
Clean Beach Initiative Grant.
Data Mining
SAIC's progress presented by Andrew Lissner. SAIC received
data from the Orange County Public Health Department. They
have developed a normalized database from this data and are
ready to begin statistical and heuristic analyses of this
data. They are still compiling related data sets such as meteorological,
tidal patterns, storm sewer condition, bird migration patters,
etc. to correlate against the bacteriological data they have
received. Once they complete their data mining and collection
efforts, they will be poised to complete the data analyses.
They anticipate completing these data mining and analyses
after August 2002.
GIS Map:
A component of the data
analysis effort is collecting DGPS data to document "average"
field coordinates at Baby Beach and adjacent sites used by
the County to collect bacteriological samples, as well as
10-15 other features, such as ends of storm drains, etc. These
data will be added to nominal map and aerial photograph GIS
layers to be provided by the County, and used to display a
map view(s) in the State of the Beach Report. Depending on
needs to display data for the report (based on collective
graphics showing data), a map(s) may also be included to display
data. This will be completed in parallel (in fact as an integral
part of) the data mining task and is anticipated to be completed
after August 2002.
CEQA CE:
SAIC is preparing a draft
memorandum for a Categorical Exemption (CE) under CEQA. CEQA
allows a CE for research and scientific investigation projects
of a temporary nature. SAIC will submit the draft memorandum
to the County of Orange in approximately mid-May, 2002. The
county will then begin its approval process for completion
of the CE.
Source Tracking Element of State of the Beach Report
Orange County Health Care Agency
(OCHCA) Progress presented by Donna Ferguson:
OCHCA will be conducting bacterial
source tracking studies at Baby Beach.
The OCHCA lab does not normally
do microbial source tracking analyses. The state of the science
for these analyses is in its infancy. There are no standard
tests available. There are several procedures that show promise,
but none of them will verifiably identify the source of the
bacteria. Due to this, OCHC has proposed using three methods,
which, when used together, may be able to identify some sources
of the bacteria found at Baby Beach.
One of the key issues to overcome
is the fact that many bacterial indicators can be found in
more than one animal (or human) specie. Multiple sources are
not easily separated.
The Orange County Water District
(OCWD) has developed/used a method using Bacteroides, which
can determine if the source is human or animal. This is one
method proposed by OCHC.
Another method proposed by OCHCA
is called community analysis: a DNA mapping where you look
at total population of bacteria in your sample. You cannot
conclusively identify down to bacterial species: but you can
say the community in this water sample is different than the
community in another water sample. When there is a pollution
event, there should be a high diversity in that microbial
population. This will help determine different populations
of bacteria and thus different sources.
The problem is highly complex
and we may or may not identify the source after the investigation
is complete.
Dana Point Residents and City
Officials stated that the main jetty is covered with guano.
Is this potentially a source and will the investigation determine
how much this may be contributing?
The County of Orange stated that
the circulation study would evaluate to some extent the likelihood
of the source being from guano on the main jetty. However
the circulation study has not yet been developed or scheduled.
Action:
County to incorporate in
data mining report a discussion of the circulation studies
to date and further circulation data needed to evaluate whether
circulation or the lack thereof can impact bacteriological
conditions.
Dana Point Residents stated: What
about the boat moorings? There are no stations there. Will
the investigation evaluate the contribution of these boats?
Many boats are live-in boats.
County of Orange had no plan to
establish sampling stations in and among the boat moorings.
Action: As
part of overall investigation, County to evaluate the possibility
of and potential need for sampling in and around boat moorings.
County to incorporate the findings in the data mining report.
Dana Point residents asked about
petrochemicals dissolved copper and other 303d constituents.
They asked why these constituents were not included as a part
of the study. One resident raised the possibility that these
other non-bacteriological compounds can indicate the potential
for bacteriological growth and activity. Others raised the
possibility that dissolved oxygen measurements may be indicative
of pollution in the harbor.
The County stated that the Clean
Beaches Initiative (CBI) grant funding is to focus on bacteria
issues. The County stated that the Environmental Resources
group of the Watershed & Coastal Resources Division is
investigating the 303d constituents.
Action:
Sonia Nasser will invite
Chris Crompton to discuss Dana Point Harbor 303d list constituents
at the next meeting.
The County stated that after August,
the SAIC data mining and data gaps analysis report will be
complete, the Orange County Health Care Agency bacteriological
source study report will be complete, and the CBI grant application
for the implementation of BMPs will be complete and available
for review.
Next meeting August 1, 2002: 10:30
City of Dana Point City Council chambers, Suite 210, 33282
Golden Lantern, Dana Point, California.
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