Transcript Dean Goggle, WREQC

Wind River
Environmental
Quality Commission
Eastern Shoshone & Northern Arapaho
Tribes
Of the Wind River Indian Reservation
WWW.WREQC.COM
The 106 Water Quality Program
 Dean Goggles :Water Quality Coordinator
 Travis Shakespeare : Lead Water Quality
Technician, NPDES/NPS/UMTRA
 Lokilo St.Clair: Water Quality Technician/UST/LUST
 Lynette O’Neal: Water Quality Technician
 Consultants : Dave Haire W.Q. Scientist, Steve
Babits Hydro – Geologist, Art Shoutis
Macroinvertebrates Scientist
Map of Water Quality Sampling Sites
WREQC 106 Activities
 Surface Water monitoring
 Macroinvertebrate
Collection
 Bacteria and E.coli
Monitoring
 Lake Monitoring
 NPDES Program
 Riverton UMTRA Site
 Special Projects: Alpine,
South Fork Fire, Mission
Pond, Surrell Creek, etc.
 Non Point Source Report
 Water Quality Standards
 Ground-water and Source
water Protection
 Interagency Coordination
and Outreach
 On-Sight Oil and Gas
Fields and NPDES
inspections
Collecting Bacteria Samples
Bacteria Incubator
Bacteria Sampling for E-Coli
and Total Colifrom
Bacteria sampling
Lake Monitoring Program
Baseline data collection of six (6) lakes and
reservoirs on the Reservation
Lake Monitoring at Dinwoody
Lake
Lake monitoring
Collecting Plankton
Moccasin Lake (elevation
8200ft)
Surface Water Monitoring
 The WREQC had 46 water quality sites for 9
years now we are down to 21 core water
quality monitoring sites.
 We use a YSI monitoring equipment to
collect 10 chemical parameters and a Son
Tek Flow Tracker for flow measurements
(cfs)
Measuring Discharge.
Macroinvertebrates Program
 The WREQC 106 program started the
Macroinvertebrates collection in 2002, and
collected macros at all 46 sampling sites
with QAQC at 10% of these sites.
 The 106 program has also collected
macroinvertebrates at various NDPES and
Alpine sites
Collecting Macros in March
Field Elutriation
Outreach Program
 The WREQC Water Quality program works
with the Wyoming Indian School District and
The Native Waters summer Program.
Looking at Macroinvertebrates with
the Native Waters Camp
Collecting Bugs with Wyoming
Indian High School
Inter-Agency Coordination
 The WREQC participates in numerous onsight inspections with the BIA, BLM, the
Shoshone Oil & Gas Commission, and the
Oil & Gas Companies throughout the
Reservation.
 WREQC participates in various regional
EPA/State/Tribal water quality meetings:
Non-Point Source, Basin Advisory Group,
NPDES/WQS, TMDL Workgroup
On Sight Inspection of the Devon
natural gas and Coalbed methane
Onsite Inspection of a Leaking Oil
Tank
NPDES Program
 The Wind River Reservation has 34 federal
NPDES permits and 4 State permits for a
total of 38 NPDES permits.
 Completed downstream water quality
assessments below the Reservation NPDES
oil and gas discharges in 2005.
NPDES Discharge point
Thank you for your time