ANNUAL OPERATING plan

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1 la Vega valley waterhed adviory committee ANNUAL OPERATING plan Lake Mead, Nevada FISCAL YEAR 2011

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3 la Vega valley waterhed adviory committee ANNUAL OPERATING plan FISCAL YEAR 2011 acknowledgement acronym Eecutive Summary Goal 1 - Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer Goal 2 - Meet or urpa federal, tate and local tandard and regulation Goal 3 - Preerve and enhance the natural, cultural, hitoric and recreational value of the waterhed and Lake Mead Goal 4 - Coordinate water reource management Goal 5 - Manage flood rik Goal 6 - Sutain water and energy reource for future generation Goal 7 - Build community awarene and upport for regional waterhed management

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5 acknowledgement La Vega Valley Waterhed Adviory Committee MEMBER agencie City of Henderon City of La Vega City of North La Vega Clean Water Coalition Regional Flood Control Ditrict Water Reclamation Ditrict La Vega Valley Water Ditrict Southern Nevada Water Authority annual operating Plan 5

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7 acronym AFY Acre-feet per year MCL Maimum Contaminant Level BBAMP CAMP CC CCL CCRFCD CCWRD COH COLV CONLV CMT Boulder Bain Adaptive Management Plan La Vega Wah Comprehenive Adaptive Management Plan Contaminant Candidate Lit Regional Flood Control Ditrict Water Reclamation Ditrict City of Henderon City of La Vega City of North La Vega Core Management Team MS4 NAC NDEP NEPA NPDES NPS NRS RMHQ ROD SCOP Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Sytem Nevada Adminitrative Code Nevada Diviion of Environmental Protection National Environmental Policy Act National Pollutant Dicharge Elimination Sytem National Park Service Nevada Revied Statute Requirement to Maintain Eiting Higher Quality Record of Deciion Sytem Conveyance and Operation Program CWA Clean Water Act SDWA Safe Drinking Water Act CWC Clean Water Coalition SNWA Southern Nevada Water Authority DAQEM EIS Department of Air Quality and Environmental Management Environmental Impact Statement SNWS SQMC Southern Nevada Water Sytem Stormwater Quality Management Committee EPA GMP Environmental Protection Agency La Vega Valley Groundwater Management Program SWAC TMDL Sewage and Watewater Adviory Committee Total Maimum Daily Load LVVWAC LVVWD La Vega Valley Waterhed Adviory Committee La Vega Valley Water Ditrict TT USGS Treatment Technique U.S. Geological Survey LVWCC La Vega Wah Coordination Committee MAC La Vega Wah Management Adviory Committee annual operating Plan 7

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9 eecutive ummary

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11 eecutive ummary Eecutive Summary In 2007, water and watewater agencie in Southern Nevada came together to etablih the La Vega Valley Waterhed Adviory Committee (LVVWAC). The committee wa formed to enhance overall waterhed management effort and to develop a regional water quality plan for the La Vega Valley waterhed. Upon it formation, the LVVWAC adopted a miion to: Protect, preerve and enhance the quality and quantity of water reource in the La Vega Valley Waterhed and to utain economic well-being and protect the environment for preent and future generation. In January 2009, the committee adopted the Regional Water Quality Plan 1, which erve a a roadmap to coordinate water and watewater management effort in Southern Nevada among the LVVWAC agencie. The plan detail the implementation effort required by LVVWAC agencie to achieve it even regional waterhed goal, which include: 1. Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer. 2. Meet or urpa federal, tate and local tandard and regulation. 3. Preerve and enhance the natural, cultural, hitoric and recreational value of the waterhed and Lake Mead. 4. Coordinate water reource management. 5. Manage flood rik. 6. Sutain water and energy reource for future generation. 7. Build community awarene and upport for regional waterhed management. The fical year 2011 Annual Operating Plan build upon the Regional Water Quality Plan by providing pecific activitie and action currently underway or projected by LVVWAC agencie. Becaue water and watewater activitie are inetricably linked, oftentime more than one agency i deignated a a lead. To thi end, LVVWAC will be ued a a forum to coordinate thee effort, increae efficiencie and avoid duplication. Fical year 2011 Annual Operating Plan activitie are aigned a follow: Stormwater : City of Henderon City of La Vega City of North La Vega Regional Flood Control Ditrict Watewater : City of Henderon City of La Vega City of North La Vega Clean Water Coalition Water Reclamation Ditrict Drinking Water : City of Henderon City of North La Vega La Vega Valley Water Ditrict Southern Nevada Water Authority In addition, everal activitie lited in the fical year 2011 Annual Operating Plan include additional involvement from. The plan will be updated each year a plan change and project are completed. On December 15, 2009, the Clean Water Coalition Board of Director voted to upend the Sytem Conveyance and Operation Program (SCOP). A a reult, related LVVWAC activitie are noted a upended throughout thi plan. By working together, the LVVWAC will utilize the fical year 2011 Annual Operating Plan to addre waterhed management effort in a more coordinated manner. Doing o will help to protect vital public, environmental and recreational reource and help to enure thee reource are maintained for generation to come. 1. The Regional Water Quality Plan can be acceed electronically on nwa.com. annual operating Plan 11

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13 goal 1: Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer. goal 1 Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer: Monitor and repond to uptream inflow to Lake Mead. Manage non-point ource from the La Vega Valley. Manage the operation and facilitie of the Sytem Conveyance and Operation Program (SCOP). Manage, coordinate and optimize water reclamation facilitie. ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 13

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15 goal 1: Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer. goal 1 Strategy: Monitor and repond to uptream inflow to Lake Mead. Stormwater Watewater Continue to monitor Lake Mead inflow for nutrient and drinking water contaminant. Drinking Water Continue monthly ampling and analye of inflow and track change over time to determine impact. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. Implement the CWC Annual Operating Plan. S Implement the Lake Mead and La Vega Wah 2010 Monitoring Plan. Implement the Lake Mead Baeline Monitoring Program (BBAMP). S Implement dry weather monitoring program detailed in the Stormwater Management Plan. Implement wet weather monitoring program detailed in the Stormwater Management Plan Review and revie the tormwater monitoring program annually. Report all monitoring reult annually to LVVWAC member. Monitor the progre of change in uptream watewater dicharge and addre any water impact reulting from increaed watewater flow. Continue monthly ampling and analye of inflow and track change over time to determine impact. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. Monitor any uptream NPDES permit application and comment. Evaluate potential impact and implement neceary repone meaure to change in La Vega Wah flow. Continue monthly ampling and analyi of inflow and track change over time to determine impact. Perform quarterly water quality analye from major tributarie. Collect real-time water quality monitoring data from variou permanent tation. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed continued Note: Many tactic are repeated throughout the document. Thee tactic are performed to meet a number of requirement or water quality goal. ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 15

16 goal 1: Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Perform water quality monitoring from hallow groundwater well near the Wah. Perform water quality monitoring a part of bioaement and wetland tudie. Continue etenive monitoring and analye on elenium, perchlorate, and other pecial concern or water quality parameter. Provide water quality monitoring reult to the LVWCC and ummarize the water quality data in annual report. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. Contract with Reclamation-Denver to continue macrovertebrate ampling in the La Vega Wah and it tributarie. Monitor and report effluent flow from La Vega Valley watewater reclamation facilitie. (SWAC) Monitor and addre any potential water quality impact reulting from SCOP to Lake Mead downtream uer. Continue monthly ampling and analye of inflow and track change over time to determine impact. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. S S Ue the ELCOM model a a tool to inform future water planning and management effort. Continue to provide funding to Flow Science to update the model with the mot current data. Work cooperatively with LVVWAC member to determine model need and fund thee need jointly. Regularly update the Lake Mead model to reflect change in Lake Mead. Update the Lake Mead Whole Lake Model and complete phoophoru balance, and other pecial modeling requet. Continue to utilize the Lake Mead Water Quality Forum (LMWQF) to ae iue related to uptream inflow. Continue to participate in LMWQF meeting and repond to appropriate data need, iue identification and program development. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed continued 16 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

17 goal 1: Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Work cooperatively with NDEP to addre water quality iue. Take an active role by volunteering to make preentation and hare data, including modeling and monitoring reult. Monitor temperature change and nutrient load a a reult from change in Lake Powell and addre reulting water quality impact. Continue monthly ampling and analye of inflow and track change over time to determine impact. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. Regularly update the Lake Mead Whole Lake Model to reflect ongoing change in Lake Mead. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 17

18 goal 1: Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer. goal 1 Strategy: MANAGE NON-POINT SOURCES FROM THE LAS vegas VALLEY. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Implement and enforce tormwater ordinance to enure the torm drain ytem are protected from pollutant. Inpect contruction ite for active dicharge. Utilize Bet Management Practice to retrict dicharge. Practice proper wate management practice. Perform biannual inpection of major tributarie a part of the illicit dicharge detection and elimination program. Utilize the etablihed complaint tructure to repond to citizen concern. Eecute indutrial tormwater inpection according to individual program and reolved iue. Continue water wate invetigation to limit the amount of polluted urban runoff into urface water ytem. Continue to upport reduction in water wate and outdoor water ue a a mean to reduce the mechanim for conveyance of pollutant in dry weather urban runoff. Continue to upport NDEP permit program through implementation of LVVWAC management program. Continue to coordinate permit program effort with NDEP permitting team. Participate in implementing wet weather trategie for water quality protection. Participate in implementing a alinity management trategy. Support NDEP permit requirement. Complete and implement the Selenium Management Plan. Finalize the Selenium Management Plan. Continue effluent flow to the La Vega Wah to dilute elenium level. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed continued 18 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

19 goal 1: Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Continue to coordinate and manage a tormwater program and outreach effort in the La Vega Valley through the Stormwater Management Committee. Continue to actively participate in the Stormwater Quality Management Committee. Develop and implement general outreach meage to encourage reponible behavior during torm event. Develop and implement targeted outreach toward pecific indutrie including contruction, indutrial, gaming, retaurant, etc. Complete the La Vega Wah Stabilization Plan to minimize eroion in the La Vega Wah and ediment tranport to the La Vega Bay and Lake Mead. Continue to plan, deign, and contruct tabilization facilitie following the chedule identified in the La Vega Wah Capital Improvement Plan. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 19

20 goal 1: Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer. goal 1 Strategy: MANAGE THE OPERATIONS AND FACILITIES OF THE SYSTEMS CONVEYANCE AND OPERATIONS PROGRAM (SCOP). Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Utilize the BBAMP a a planning and management tool to coordinate and implement effort related to water quality. Actively participate in BBAMP Technical Adviory Team meeting to addre water quality concern. Continue bimonthly BBAMP meeting with required team (Water Quality Objective Team, Modeling and Monitoring Team, Selenium Management Team and Plant Operation Team) to echange water quality information. Utilize the BBAMP Core Management Team and other technical and management committee et forth in the document a a clearinghoue for information related to ongoing water quality effort in Boulder Bain. Continue biannual Core Management Team meeting. Implement the BBAMP Core Management Team and other technical and management committee deciion. Actively participate in BBAMP Core Management Team and Technical Adviory Team to enure water quality concern are addreed. Identify item of concern and develop management action plan. Actively participate in BBAMP Technical Adviory Team to enure water quality concern are addreed. Identify item of concern and management action plan for drinking water ource protection. Identify item of concern and management action plan for phophoru level in Lake Mead and below Hoover Dam. Identify item of concern and management action plan for ecoytem health in the La Vega Wah, La Vega Bay and Boulder Bain Identify item of concern and management action plan for quagga muel control. S c c c c Manage Boulder Bain inflow, including watewater inflow and SCOP dicharge, with intake operation to control potentially harmful contituent that can affect Lake Mead water quality. Implement the Firt Year SCOP Operational Plan once SCOP i operational. Continue monthly analye of inflow and track change over time to determine impact X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed 20 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

21 goal 1: Protect Lake Mead a a ource of water for Southern Nevada and downtream uer. goal 1 Strategy: manage, coordinate and optimize water reclamation facilitie. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Coordinate the operation of Southern Nevada water reclamation facilitie to meet water quality objective. Evaluate annual operating plan and update a needed. Coordinate watewater treatment facility operation to achieve optimization. Finalize watewater optimization plan. Develop annual operating plan for water reclamation facilitie. Finalize annual operating plan and update a needed. Identify and participate in reearch effort related to optimizing treatment. Conduct ceramic membrane pilot teting in Continue to evaluate and award new project related to treatment efficacy. Continue participation in the Fathead Minnow Study. Contruct a 30 million gallon-per-day Microfiltration Plant. Work with LVVWAC member to upport ongoing reearch related to treatment optimization. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 21

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23 goal 2: Meet or urpa federal, tate and local tandard and regulation. goal 2 Meet or urpa federal, tate and local tandard and regulation: Endeavor to protect Lake Mead, the La Vega Wah and aociated tributarie to meet or urpa environmental quality tandard. Continue to enure drinking tandard are met and urpaed. ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 23

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25 goal 2: Meet or urpa federal, tate and local tandard and regulation. goal 2 Strategy: ENDEAVOR TO PROTECT LAKE MEAD, THE LAS VEGAS WASH AND ASSOCIATED TRIBUTARIES TO MEET OR SURPASS ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STANDARDS. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Make adjutment to SCOP operation baed on reearch and monitoring effort required under the BBAMP to enure all environmental water quality tandard are met or eceeded. Continue development of Annual Operating Plan. Continue BBAMP procee. Continue monthly ampling and analye and track change over time to determine impact. S Coordinate all watewater, urban runoff, hallow groundwater and tormwater inflow from the La Vega Valley to avoid water quality impact to Lake Mead through the operation of SCOP. Continue monthly monitoring of La Vega Wah and weekly monitoring in Lake Mead, and track change over time to determine impact. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. Optimize water quality of SCOP project flow and other flow to protect water quality at Lake Mead intake. Continue monthly analye of La Vega Wah and weekly analye in Lake Mead and track change over time to determine impact. Continue treatment optimization reearch to ait watewater dicharge with treatment alternative. Continue to meet or urpa effluent limit. Continue to meet or urpa effluent limit etablihed in NPDES permit at La Vega Valley watewater treatment facilitie. Continue optimization effort at La Vega Valley watewater treatment facilitie. Continue year-round phophoru removal at La Vega Valley watewater treatment facilitie. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed continued ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 25

26 goal 2: Meet or urpa federal, tate and local tandard and regulation. Stormwater Watewater Coordinate the operation of SCOP dicharge with the operation of SNWA intake. Drinking Water Continue monthly ampling and analye in Lake Mead and track change over time to determine impact. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. Confer regularly on intake and planned SCOP operation. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed 26 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

27 goal 2: Meet or urpa federal, tate and local tandard and regulation. goal 2 Strategy: CONTINUE TO ENSURE DRINKING STANDARDS ARE MET AND SURPASSED. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Conduct etenive monitoring and reearch to identify eiting and future contaminant in Lake Mead, a well a contaminant ource and control method. Continue to upport monitoring program for Lake Mead and it ource, which include ampling and analyi. Continue monthly monitoring for emerging contaminant. Evaluate new treatment technologie uch a non-thermal plama, photocatalyi and ozone/peroide. Participate in national and international emerging iue panel. Continue weekly monitoring in Lake Mead and track change over time to determine impact. Continue to fund water quality data collection at inflow on a monthly bai. (Reclamation) Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. Track baeline condition, provided by BBAMP, prior to SCOP operation. Implement dry weather monitoring program detailed in the Stormwater Management Program. Implement wet weather monitoring program detailed in the Stormwater Management Program. Coordinate the dry weather ampling program. Review and revie the tormwater monitoring program annually. Report tormwater monitoring reult annually. Share all monitoring reult with LVVWAC member. Collect additional phophoru monitoring data at the Hoover Dam outlet and develop appropriate management action to maintain level that protect downtream water quality. Conduct monthly analye below Hoover Dam to track change over time to determine impact. Utilize baeline information to develop an appropriate action level and methodology for determining management deciion. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed continued ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 27

28 goal 2: Meet or urpa federal, tate and local tandard and regulation. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Analyze current drinking water contituent of concern through water quality monitoring and modeling effort for future operation and/or management plan. Continue to upport monitoring program for Lake Mead and it ource, which include ampling and analyi. Continue joint water quality modeling effort. Continue monitoring for regulated contaminant a precribed by the State of Nevada and the EPA. Perform monthly monitoring for emerging contaminant. Develop new method to addre emerging threat. Monitor and reearch emerging contaminant of concern and conduct a triennial review of new information related to emerging contaminant. Review key journal monthly on emerging iue. Continue to develop and influence tate and federal legilation. Regularly attend key water indutry conference. Develop goal to monitor and reach non-detectable concentration for all chemical lited on the EPA Contaminate Candidate Lit (CCL). Participate in EPA-required monitoring for unregulated contaminant, which will provide EPA information with occurrence data for ome of the chemical on the Contaminant Candidate Lit. Continue memberhip on CCL3 epert panel. Evaluate CCL contaminant and determine feaibility of monitoring and treatment goal. Maintain treatment level to enure EPA microbial claification for the drinking water treatment facilitie are maintained Maintain the etablihed treatment goal for microbial protection and purue regulatory credit for all portion of the proce where diinfection i being achieved. Continue to reearch optimization opportunitie. Continue treatment optimization reearch by SNWA Reearch and Development Laboratory to ait watewater dicharge with treatment alternative. Support project initiated by the SNWS Treatment and Water Quality Reearch and Development diviion that eek to optimize treatment trategie that reduce cot while allowing for continued compliance with drinking water tandard. Collaborate and hare cot with other reearch entitie. Seek laboratory equipment donation for cot aving and reearch optimization opportunitie. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed continued 28 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

29 goal 2: Meet or urpa federal, tate and local tandard and regulation. Continue groundwater diinfection effort to maintain afe drinking water tandard. Ait La Vega Valley water purveyor with implementation of the Groundwater Rule. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 29

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31 goal 3: Preerve and enhance the natural, cultural, hitoric and recreational value of the waterhed and Lake Mead. goal 3 Preerve and enhance the natural, cultural, hitoric and recreational value of the waterhed and Lake Mead: Manage wildlife and habitat. Minimize impact to cultural and hitoric value. Endeavor to prevent and control invaive pecie. Support recreational ue and the health of fiherie and other water-dependent wildlife. ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 31

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33 goal 3: Preerve and enhance the natural, cultural, hitoric and recreational value of the waterhed and Lake Mead. goal 3 Strategy: MANAGE WILDLIFE AND HABITATS. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Conduct water quality planning effort in a way that complie with eiting local, tate and federal policie. Track change in regulation and implement thee regulation in all ampling plan. Continue to ue committee uch a the Interagency Sampling and Coordination Committee for input on ampling program. Meet NPDES effluent tandard. Meet requirement et forth by the SCOP Environmental Impact Statement Record of Deciion. Develop NPDES MS4 permit language that recognize the geologic and hydrologic condition in the La Vega Valley to avoid infiltration and recharge of the hallow aquifer. Continue the Contruction Site NPDES program. Meet MS4 permit requirement. Coordinate wildlife and habitat management effort through eiting wildlife management plan and document. Implement the La Vega Wah Wildlife Management Plan through the LVVWAC and the La Vega Wah Coordination Committee proce. Continue wildlife data collection including threatened and endangered pecie urvey; paerine bird point count; aquatic bird count; and large and mall mammal urvey. Coordinate with the State of Nevada to enure the La Vega Wah Wildlife Management Plan action are conitent with the Nevada Wildlife Action Plan and the Multiple Specie Habitat Conervation Plan. Continue to replant native vegetation at the La Vega Wah to improve wildlife habitat. Share all tudie and aociated finding related to habitat and wildlife among LVVWAC entitie to avoid duplicating effort and enure better informed deciion-making among member agencie. Update LVVWAC member on ignificant finding and/or reult. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed continued ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 33

34 goal 3: Preerve and enhance the natural, cultural, hitoric and recreational value of the waterhed and Lake Mead. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water When etting flow rate in the SCOP operation plan, conider watewater flow that upport La Vega Wah vegetation and habitat. Ae the effect of large pule flow. Finalize and hare natural hitory data for target pecie and their uceptibility to flood rik. Implement the Management Action Plan for Ecoytem Health in the La Vega Wah, La Vega Bay and Boulder Bain. Develop a range of flow for the La Vega Wah that meet objective. Dicharge effluent to the La Vega Wah from pecific water reclamation facilitie at et flow rate. Complete and implement the Selenium Management Plan, which identifie pecific rate of flow target in the La Vega Wah. Develop and implement a alinity management trategy. Develop and implement wet weather trategie for water. Conider the need to maintain the La Vega Wah a a conduit for treated watewater and tormwater when etting habitat and wildlife goal. Coordinate deciion related to maintaining the La Vega Wah a a conduit for treated watewater through the La Vega Wah Wildlife Management Plan proce, which outline pecific conideration for watewater and tormwater ue. Continue NPDES MS4 monitoring program and make data available to La Vega waterhed planner. Support La Vega Wah planner through NPDES MS4 program development. Implement a Management Action Plan for ecoytem health in the La Vega Wah, La Vega Bay and Boulder Bain. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed 34 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

35 goal 3: Preerve and enhance the natural, cultural, hitoric and recreational value of the waterhed and Lake Mead. goal 3 Strategy: MINIMIZE IMPACTS TO CULTURAL AND HISTORIC VALUES. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Conider impact to ite worthy of preervation when developing deign, contruction and operation plan for future facilitie. Modify contruction footprint when feaible to preerve cultural ite. Operate SCOP facilitie a intended through required cultural impact regulation, cultural urvey and SHPO. Continue to prepare ite- and facility- pecific environmental analyi and coordinate with appropriate regional agencie. Mitigate lot value through eiting and future local, tate and federal regulation when complete preervation i not feaible. Obtain grant funding to recontruct a cultural ite at the Mueum. Obtain grant funding to mitigate impact to cultural ite affected by La Vega Wah facilitie. Work with federal landowner to enure mitigation i properly conducted. Mitigate unanticipated impact to enitive pecie. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 35

36 goal 3: Preerve and enhance the natural, cultural, hitoric and recreational value of the waterhed and Lake Mead. goal 3 Strategy: ENDEAVOR TO PREVENT AND CONTROL INVASIVE SPECIES. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Monitor the effect from quagga muel on water quality to mitigate impact of change in water quality in Lake Mead. Continue to etablih a count of quagga muel adult and juvenile in Lake Mead to determine trend. Continue monthly ampling and analyi in Lake Mead and track change over time to determine impact. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. Develop a quagga muel Item of Concern Document and aociated Management Action Plan. c Continue to ue La Vega Wah Weed Partnerhip and imilar group to prevent and control invaive pecie along the La Vega Wah. Continue to allow the La Vega Wah Weed Partnerhip to act a a quai- Cooperative Weed Management Area for the lower La Vega Wah. Continue regular meeting between and the National Park Service. Obtain grant funding to uppre weed in the La Vega Wah. Seek timulu grant funding to reduce fire rik caued by invaive pecie. Coordinate with the 100th Meridian Initiative to track invaive muel in Lake Mead. Continue to attend 100th Meridian meeting. Continue to participate in meeting and ympoium regarding quagga muel. Encourage the State of Nevada to develop an Invaive Specie Control Plan o that federal funding for invaive pecie control can be acquired by the State. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed continued 36 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

37 goal 3: Preerve and enhance the natural, cultural, hitoric and recreational value of the waterhed and Lake Mead. Stormwater Watewater Continue invetigation of method to control growth of quagga muel on infratructure. Drinking Water Seek funding from local, tate and federal agencie to perform reearch on iue developed by quagga muel epert. Conduct reearch on quagga muel attachment to HDPE pipe and material. c X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 37

38 goal 3: Preerve and enhance the natural, cultural, hitoric and recreational value of the waterhed and Lake Mead. goal 3 Strategy: SUPPORT RECREATIONAL USES AND THE HEALTH OF FISHERIES AND OTHER WATER-DEPENDENT WILDLIFE. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Manage water quality and nutrient input to upport appropriate level of algal and zooplankton production to maintain forage production for port and native fiherie. Continue monthly ampling and analye in Lake Mead and track change over time to determine impact. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. Utilize SCOP (once operational) to balance watewater effluent flow in the La Vega Wah and Lake Mead. Enure effort to maintain or improve Lake Mead water quality do not come at the epene of waterdependent wildlife. Continue to ait with razorback ucker population tudie and hare data with LVVWAC member. Sample zooplankton in Lake Mead for elenium to ae rik to larval razorback ucker. Attend local water-quality related committee meeting to monitor for potential water quality change that may affect wildlife. Continue to meet etablihed water quality tandard to maintain recreational water ue that involve full body contact recreation with water. Continue weekly ampling and analye in Lake Mead and track change over time to determine impact. Enter all collected data into Regional Water Quality Databae. Continue to conduct reearch of water impact on fih and wildlife population. Continue to ait with razorback ucker population tudie and hare data with LVVWAC member. Sample zooplankton in Lake Mead for elenium to ae rik to larval razorback ucker. Finalize Fathead Minnow Study. Conduct bioaement tudie to evaluate the tatu of fih and wildlife under current water chemitry condition. Finalize bioaement reporting from previou year. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed 38 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

39 goal 4: Coordinate water reource management. goal 4 Coordinate water reource management: Balance ecoytem, flow and other function of the La Vega Wah and Lake Mead. Optimize ue of recycled water. Enure the development of and compliance with the 208 Water Quality Management Plan. ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 39

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41 goal 4: Coordinate water reource management. goal 4 Strategy: BALANCE ECOSYSTEM, FLOWS AND OTHER FUNCTIONS OF THE LAS VEGAS WASH AND LAKE MEAD. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Balance flow to the La Vega Wah and Boulder Bain through coordination of LVVWAC member agencie. Overee the implementation of the Comprehenive Adaptive Management Plan and work (through meeting and other correpondence) to coordinate LVVWAC activitie to benefit the ecoytem of the La Vega Wah and Lake Mead. Utilize SCOP (once operational) to balance watewater effluent flow in the La Vega Wah and Lake Mead. Maintain the tructural integrity of the La Vega Wah channel to prevent further eroion. Continue to plan, deign, and contruct tabilization facilitie following the chedule identified in the La Vega Wah Capital Improvement Plan. Utilize SCOP (once operational) to reduce flow in the La Vega Wah to prevent eroion. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 41

42 goal 4: Coordinate water reource management. goal 4 Strategy: optimize ue of recycled water. Stormwater Watewater Adopt the Southern Nevada Water Recycling Policy by affected LVVWAC member agencie. Drinking Water Update local ordinance a needed to upport the Southern Nevada Water Recycling Policy. Implement recommendation et forth in the Southern Nevada Regional Water Recycling Study. Purue implementation of the Southern Nevada Regional Water Recycling Study recommendation. Continue to utilize eiting and planned water reclamation facilitie to upply recycled water in the La Vega Valley. Conider dicontinued ue of the Bonanza-Mojave Reue Facility for efficiency purpoe. Continue to upply recycled water to cutomer. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed 42 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

43 goal 4: Coordinate water reource management. goal 4 Strategy: ENSURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE CLARK COUNTY 208 WATER QUALITY management plan Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Continue to coordinate all regional water quality planning and management effort among regional entitie. Regularly update the 208 Water Quality Management Plan. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 43

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45 goal 5: Manage flood rik. goal 5 Manage flood rik: Minimize the lo of life and property from impact of flooding. ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 45

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47 goal 5: Manage flood rik. goal 5 Strategy: minimize the lo of life and property from impact of flooding. Continue to update and prepare mater plan that identify method needed to minimize flood rik for development. Update the La Vega Valley Flood Control Mater Plan by September Identify future opportunitie for the contruction of flood control infratructure. Continue to coordinate Mater Plan Update project with other infratructure project through member entity input in developing the Ten- Year Contruction Program. Continue to identify and purue partnering opportunitie at the federal, tate and local level. Continue to monitor financial market for opportunitie to borrow fund to offet inflation and implement flood infratructure at the earliet opportunity. Monitor rainfall and flood water depth. Maintain and epand rainfall, flood tage and weather gage network. Dieminate real-time data via the internet. Perform pot-rainfall event analye. Prepare rainfall event report and make them available to the public. Monitor effect of La Vega Wah eroion control tructure during flood event for impact to Lake Mead water quality. Maintain current floodplain development ordinance. Continue land development review for compliance with floodplain management ordinance and deign criteria in the development permitting proce. Continue floodplain development ordinance review when regionally ignificant. Enure MS4 permittee ordinance are conitent with permit requirement. Continue public education. Continue public outreach effort including media, community event and printed material. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 47

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49 goal 6: Sutain water and energy reource for future generation. goal 6 Sutain water and energy reource for future generation: Optimize ue of renewable energy. Conider the net environmental benefit. Enhance energy and water conervation program. ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 49

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51 goal 6: Sutain water and energy reource for future generation. goal 6 Strategy: optimize ue of renewable energy. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Seek opportunitie to hare renewable energy, thereby optimizing the regional development of the reource. Partner in the contruction of renewable facilitie. Partner to develop renewable energy facilitie with NV Energy and the Silver State Energy Aociation. Entertain opportunitie with other Nevada-baed private and public group for the development of renewable facilitie. Seek opportunitie for uing renewable energy in current and future management and operation activitie. Identify location where tranmiion loe can be minimized and where facilitie can cot effectively be intalled. Work with project manager to incorporate renewable energy into deign when appropriate in new contruction. Develop and maintain renewable energy goal. Add renewable energy to the energy portfolio through Power Purchae Agreement and ownerhip. Diverify the renewable energy generation portfolio by including olar, wind, geothermal, mall hydro and bioma in appropriate amount. Implement hydropower generating ytem when appropriate. Identify current and future facilitie/project where rate-of-flow control valve are pecified and determine if hydro-generator can be ubtituted. Work with the project manager to enure the option of hydro-generation ha been eplored for new facilitie. Utilize SCOP (once operational) power generation tation for hydropower generation. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed continued ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 51

52 goal 6: Sutain water and energy reource for future generation. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Conider energy recovery in etting flow rate. Identify current and future facilitie/project where rate-of-flow control valve are pecified and determine if hydro-generator can be ubtituted. Work with the project manager to enure the option of hydro-generation ha been eplored for new facility development. Balance La Vega Wah flow with flow through SCOP to maimize electrical generation while protecting the eco-ytem. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed 52 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

53 goal 6: Sutain water and energy reource for future generation. goal 6 Strategy: conider the net environmental benefit. Stormwater Balance the development of natural reource to minimize environmental impact. Watewater Drinking Water Work with LVVWAC member to evaluate environmental benefit of all activitie. Develop a tandardized mean to quantify carbon footprint, and report progre to reduce carbon footprint on an annual bai. Develop a tandardized mean for calculating carbon footprint to enure conitency in reporting among LVVWAC member until uch time that a national tool i developed. Share carbon footprint meaurement reult among LVVWAC member for comparion purpoe. Once a national tool i developed i hould replace the internal tool. Etablih an environmental impact baeline for 2010 to track progre. Etablih a baeline year that all ubequent year can be compared. Etablih a metric that will qualify the year-to-year meaurement to enure comparion are properly accounted. The metric hould be tied to gro water uage. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 53

54 goal 6: Sutain water and energy reource for future generation. goal 6 Strategy: enhance energy and water conervation program. Conduct annual review of current energy and water conumption. Produce an annual report that identifie cutomer load and purchaed power reource ued to atify thoe load. Report on the percent of load erved by renewable energy. Maintain ongoing figure of water aved through water conervation program. Develop an annual report that quantifie the amount of water aved through water conervation program. Identify method to reduce conumption of reource and evaluate their aociated cot. Intall ubmetering at all facilitie. Perform energy audit at all facilitie and etablih baeline conumption level. Perform retrofit and operational change a neceary to reduce energy conumption. Develop a utainability plan for each LVVWAC member agency. Increae interdepartmental collaboration among each LVVWAC member agency. Identify low-cot olution and reource to enure ucceful implementation. Strengthen future and eiting eternal partnerhip and continue to identify ynergie. Etablih new internal and eternal partnerhip. Increae employee education and participation. Continue to develop, implement and upport water conervation program. Maintain conervation program participation. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Identify opportunitie to develop and implement new conervation program. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed continued 54 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

55 goal 6: Sutain water and energy reource for future generation. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Continue to develop, implement and upport energy conervation program. Intall ubmetering at all facilitie. Perform energy audit at all facilitie and etablih baeline conumption level. Perform retrofit and operational change a neceary to reduce energy conumption. Proactively ae new technologie a they become available and incorporate them into the facilitie when appropriate. Develop an inventory of energy reource to effectively track and utilize energy reource efficiently. Epand the Energy Water Quality Management Sytem to include the SNWA. Perform optimization tudie to develop trategie for operating equipment. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 55

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57 goal 7: Build community awarene and upport for regional waterhed management. goal 7 Build community awarene and upport for regional waterhed management: Develop communication and education program. Integrate eiting takeholder program to pecifically addre waterhed iue. ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 57

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59 goal 7: Build community awarene and upport for regional waterhed management. goal 7 Strategy: DEVELOP COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Identify appropriate communication tool to complement pecific phae of regional water quality planning effort. Utilize communication tool for diemination of key meage. Provide gatekeeper of the communication tool with material to upport the LVVWAC Annual Operating Plan. Provide gatekeeper of the communication tool with material to upport the LVVWAC Regional Water Quality Plan. Develop public preentation to demontrate LVVWAC activitie. Continue to pot monthly update on the lvwah.org webite. Continue to hot public communication forum, including educational tour, preentation, planting event and booth diplay. Continue outreach effort on flood afety and tormwater quality through chool outreach program, media, public ervice announcement and outreach event. Continue meeting of the LVVWAC Public Information Officer ubgroup a warranted to coordinate regional communication effort. Coordinate regional education program among LVVWAC entitie. Develop key meage. Approve water quality key meaging. Review key meage and adjut to plan change annually. Continue to hot the Adminitrative Study Team; incorporate LVVWAC meaging into agenda. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN 59

60 goal 7: Build community awarene and upport for regional waterhed management. goal 7 Strategy: INTEGRATE EXISTING STAKEHOLDER PROGRAMS TO SPECIFICALLY ADDRESS WATERSHED ISSUES. Stormwater Watewater Drinking Water Identify opportunitie for takeholder input throughout the development and approval phae of thi plan. Continue to add related LVVWAC item to the La Vega Wah Coordination Committee agenda. Utilize eiting takeholder group for information haring. Continue to hot the Adminitrative Study Team; incorporate LVVWAC meaging into agenda. Convene the Stormwater Group a needed to upport LVVWAC activitie. Dieminate information to employee to enure they remain informed about current iue. Update the lvwah.org webite a needed with current information. Continue to iue La Vega Wah monthly update via electronic mail. Conduct and participate in educational tour, preentation, planting event and booth diplay. Develop internal information related to LVVWAC iue a needed. Ditribute the LVVWAC Regional Water Quality Plan to key internal taff. Dicu LVVWAC Regional Water Quality Plan update with internal taff. X - Action Underway S - Action Supended C - Action Completed 60 ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN

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