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RWSA Board of Directors Meeting 12/12/2023
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RWSA Board of Directors Meeting
12/12/2023
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RWSA BOD PACKAGE 2023_12_12.pdf
RWSA Minutes 2023_12_12.pdf
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. AGENDA APPROVAL
3. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS BOARD MEETING ON NOVEMBER 14, 2023
4. RECOGNITION
5. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT
6. ITEMS FROM THE PUBLIC
7. RESPONSES TO PUBLIC COMMENTS
8. CONSENT AGENDA
a. Staff Report on Finance
b. Staff Report on Operations
c. Staff Report on CIP Projects
d. Staff Report on Administration and Communications
e. Staff Report on Wholesale Metering
f. Staff Report on Drought Monitoring
g. Approval of Term Contract for Environmental Engineering Consulting Services - ECS Mid-Atlantic, LLC
h. Approval of the First Amendment to the Ragged Mountain Dam Project Agreement
9. OTHER BUSINESS
a. Presentation and Vote on Acceptance: FY 23 Audit Report
b. Presentation: Dam Safety Program Overview
10. OTHER ITEMS FROM BOARD/STAFF NOT ON THE AGENDA
11. CLOSED MEETING
12. ADJOURNMENT
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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Good afternoon.
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I would like to open the Board of Directors, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority.
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First item is the approval of the agenda.
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Are there any changes or modifications board members would like to propose to the agenda?
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Hearing none, do we have a motion and a second to approve the agenda?
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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I move for approval of the agenda.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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Second.
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And we have a second.
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All in favor?
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Aye.
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Opposed?
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All right.
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Agenda has been approved.
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Next item are minutes of the previous board meeting of November 14th.
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Are there any comments or changes to the board minutes?
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We have a motion for approval and a second.
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I move for approval of the meeting minutes.
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Second that.
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And a second, all in favor?
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Aye.
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Opposed?
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Okay, the minutes are approved.
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I don't see any recognition, Bill, is that correct?
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
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That's correct, none today.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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Okay, let's move on to the executive director's report.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
00:01:23
Thank you, sir.
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So I would note that this is year number four of
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at least partial virtual meetings.
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And this will be the last one we have scheduled for any time in the future.
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So starting in 2020 through this year, we've had at least portions of several years and full years of virtual meetings.
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And we're at the end of that.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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Mr.
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Chair, could I interrupt really quickly?
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I'm sorry, maybe you did this while I was still getting locked on.
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Was there a need to
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to identify where we're located for purposes of this call.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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That's correct, Bill.
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We didn't do that.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
00:02:09
Good note, Brian.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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Okay.
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Well, I'm Brian Pinkston, 575 Alderman Road in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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Gary?
SPEAKER_04
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Gary O'Connell, 1720 Yorktown Drive in Charlottesville.
Jeff Richardson
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority / Secretary-Treasurer, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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Jeff?
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I'm Jeff Richardson, and I'm in the County Administration Building, 401 McIntire Road, and that is in Charlottesville.
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Lauren?
SPEAKER_02
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Hi, Lauren Hildebrand, 305 4th Street Northwest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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And I'm Mike Gaffney, I'm at 3180 Dundee Road, Earliesville, Virginia.
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Valerie, are there any other things we need to reference in regards to this meeting?
SPEAKER_00
00:02:58
Yes, I think it would be appropriate to reference the authority's remote participation program and that it's being carried out in accordance with the policy that the authority adopted last year pursuant to Virginia code authorizing such meetings.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:03:21
Okay.
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And is that enough notice that you just said?
SPEAKER_02
00:03:28
It is.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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Okay, so we will move on to the executive director's report, Bill.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
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Okay, thank you, Brian, for catching us on that.
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So, as I was saying, we'll be done with those formalities for an indefinite period.
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No more virtual meetings are on our schedule.
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Under our strategic plan priority of optimization and resiliency, we were pleased that
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DEQ has agreed to modify our wastewater permit so that we do not have to have lab testing on the weekends.
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And even as we projected back in the budget, that would save us about $9,300 for the next six months.
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So over $18,000 a year that we were having to bring chemists in on Saturday and Sunday to run tests.
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But that requirement has been eliminated by DEQ.
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So we're pleased about that.
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And a similar note, our urban water permit, which is also issued by DEQ and the Army Corps.
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And this gives us a permit to mitigate impacts to wetlands and streams that when we do projects such as the Ravana to Ragged Pipeline Project, as well as the original Ragged Mountain Dam Project.
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The Army Corps issued a permit to us in 2008.
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It was a 10-year permit.
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They gave us an extension in 2018 for five years, and that brought us to 2023.
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And recently, they approved a 10-year extension of this permit to 2033 in our hopes that that will get us through the Ravana to Ragged Pipeline project and complete all of that work.
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Similarly, the DEQ also issued the original permit in 2008.
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It was a 15-year permit that expired this year, and we applied for a new permit last year.
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DEQ has given us a continuance of that permit while they complete their review, which we expect to be another 15-year permit.
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So with these extensions and the new permits,
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We clearly hope that we can get through all of the projects that were included in the urban water permit extension that originated in 2008 and get our water supply approved.
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So speaking of water supply, most of the data that I sent you in my written report is out of date now because of the rain we had over the weekend.
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So I am pleased to say that all of our reservoirs are full, except for Ragged Mountain.
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And that's about 200 million gallons low.
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We have about 1.2 million gallons in Ragged Mountain.
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So just on simple arithmetic, the community uses about 10 million gallons a day.
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1.2 billion gallons in Ragged would last us
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for about 120 days.
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So it's not an enormous amount, but it's a good amount.
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And we were pleased to have the rain.
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This is the new DEQ, the Drought Monitoring Chart that they give.
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It's similar to what is in your written report, although they reduced the precipitation quadrant from emergency red to watch yellow.
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So they recognize the rain over the weekend.
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So we're in a watch for precipitation and groundwater.
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We're in emergency status for reservoir levels, which doesn't really apply to us.
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And the stream flows are listed as green or normal, which doesn't seem like it totally matches our local streams either.
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So this is the DEQ report on drought.
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We had noted that over the last 35 months, we were still 18% low and 41% low for this calendar year.
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Those data points will be updated next month.
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So we're pleased to get the rain, but we're not out of the drought watch yet.
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Okay, speaking of water supply,
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We were very pleased.
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Lauren did a nice job, and Brian helped us at city council.
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Last week, we proposed an amendment to the Ragged Mountain Dam Project Agreement, which would allow us to add 700 million gallons to Ragged Mountain as soon as we can.
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It removed some limitations that were in the original 2012 agreement.
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About we couldn't add water until the demand was 85% of the supply.
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and I'm pleased to say that City Council supported our proposed amendment unanimously and so with approval of our consent agenda today and with approval by the Albemarle County Service Authority Board of Directors on Thursday, we would be open for the city and or the county to request that we add 700 million gallons to Ragged Mountain Reservoir, which would increase that reservoir
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50% on the amount of water stored there and would raise the normal pool 12 feet.
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But the dam was built for the additional 12 feet.
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We have to modify the intake tower and close off one weir that controls the normal pool today and close that opening so that the water will rise as we add it.
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either from Sugar Hollow when the flow there is greater than 30 million gallons a day or through the new pipeline built from Rivanna to Ragged when that's completed around 2030.
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So between the two water sources, we're going to add 700 million gallons, about a 50% increase to the water supply at Ragged Mountain.
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So this should help secure the community's water supply
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for many decades into the future based on the growth projections that we get from the city county and the university.
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So we were real pleased that Lauren and Sam and Brian helped get us through that with city council and looking forward to approval from the other two boards.
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And we would get started right away with the design in order to do these grading modifications and the intake power changes
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and then that'll take about a year and then about a year to do the work.
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And so in about two years, we would hope to start adding water to Ragged Mountain and increase our community's water supply.
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So that's a big improvement.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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Yeah, I'd like to thank Brian and Lauren and Sam in absentia for their efforts with city council.
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That was
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Wonderful to hear the news that city council approved it, especially with a 5-0 vote.
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That's great.
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So Bill, my understanding is between now and our next meeting that the Service Authority and the county will approve it and then it'll come back to us to vote or they need to request the city or the Service Authority needs to request Rivanna
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to increase it.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
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Well, actually, it's on your consent agenda today to approve the amendment to the agreement.
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And it's on the Albemarle County Service Authority board of directors meeting agenda for Thursday to approve it.
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So after Thursday, we would have all the approvals needed to go forward with the project.
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The agreement says the city and or the county would give Rivanna a written request
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and so we would expect to get a letter from Lauren and Gary requesting us to go forward and add the 700 million gallons as soon as they can get the letter to us.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:12:09
Okay.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:12:10
So it's on your agenda today.
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In terms of our approval today, we can go ahead and vote for this even before ACSA does.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
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I think so.
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Okay.
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If they didn't approve it, it would not be approved at the agreement.
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So we'd have two of the three parties approving it if that should occur.
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But when we talked with the Albemarle County Service Board in 2018, I think it was, about accelerating the Rivanna to Ragged pipeline and getting that going, and their letter to us asked that we build the pipeline and
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and accelerate adding the water to Ragged Mountain as soon as we could thereafter.
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So we're optimistic that the Albemarle County Service Authority board will support this.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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Yeah, I was just wondering in terms of the sequence of things.
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It sounds like we're voting on our own as a board and then they'll vote on their own as a board once everyone's voted on their own as a board.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:13:18
Valerie, is the chronology okay?
SPEAKER_00
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Yes, Mr. Chairman, that's just fine.
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It's a three party agreement.
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So and there's no requirement for any particular order for it to be acted on.
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Okay, right.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
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And I would say Valerie, she was the author of the amendment, and worked with Gary, Lauren, myself and staff and got this written and prepared and to express what we wanted it to do.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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So thank you, Valerie.
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Could I ask one other quick question?
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Sorry to
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Go ahead.
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So today we have five of us present out of seven.
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Is that correct?
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
00:14:03
That's right.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:14:04
So we have a quorum and can vote on all of these things.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
00:14:07
Yes, sir.
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Quorum is four.
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Four members for quorum.
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All right.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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I'll be quiet for a while.
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Brian, don't do that.
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OK, Bill.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
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Let's see, continuing on my report here.
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Thank you.
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So we took a nice trip to Roanoke and visited the Western Virginia Water Authority.
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They have a renewable natural gas facility that you can see in the background of this picture.
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And we are working with Lauren and the city
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on how possibly we could utilize the methane waste gas from wastewater as an energy source and inject it into the city's natural gas system and have it be an energy source for the community, which is what Western Virginia Water Authority has done in partnership with the Roanoke Gas Company.
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And so most all the facilities there in the background are part of that renewable natural gas system that they built earlier this year.
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So it was good to get a firsthand view of what they did and some of the challenges they overcame.
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So that was very informative and we appreciate the city staff for accompanying us on that trip.
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We also celebrate or celebrating Imagine a Day Without Water 2023.
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And this is for the secondary school children in the city and county to submit their drawings with the theme of tell us how your action to save water, what that would be.
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And so we've gotten a number of applications or submissions and the winners would be selected tomorrow.
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So that'll be announced tomorrow.
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So we appreciate the city and the service authority, and we all partnered on that program.
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Similarly, for our community involvement, some of our staff participated in the Toy Lift event and helped to receive and distribute toys to the many families in the area who would benefit from those gifts.
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So we appreciate Deborah, Patricia, and Alisa
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all helped out with that event earlier this month.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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So that is my report, Mr. Chairman.
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Okay, thank you, Bill.
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Are there any comments for Bill or questions?
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We seem to have had a number during your report, Bill, so.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
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Okay.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:17:01
All right, we will move on to the items from the public.
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And I would ask that you identify yourself for the public record.
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Is there anyone in the queue for public comments?
Matthew McLearen
Auditor
00:17:18
No, sir, none at this time.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:17:20
Okay, we will close the items from the public.
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Note that there's no responses and move to the consent agenda.
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Are there any items on the consent agenda board members would like to pull for comments or questions?
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Hearing none, do we have a motion and a second to pass the consent agenda?
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I move for approval of the consent agenda.
SPEAKER_04
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Second.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
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We have a motion and a second.
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All in favor?
SPEAKER_04
00:17:56
Aye.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:17:58
Opposed?
00:17:59
Motion carries.
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First item under other business is the presentation and vote on the acceptance of the fiscal year 23 audit report.
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Matthew.
Matthew McLearen
Auditor
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Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, members of the board.
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For the record, my name is Matthew McLaren with Robinson Pharma Cox Associates.
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And we conducted the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023 audit of the financial statements.
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This afternoon I am going to just speak briefly about the audit, the audit results, and point out a few highlights in the bound audited financial report.
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The audit field work was conducted in mid-August.
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We had a team of about four auditors there, but about a four-day period, testing records and controls and the timing on the test that we conducted.
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Several require communications between an auditor and Governor Biden.
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I'm going to briefly review those.
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Those are also contained in a two-letter document that you see on the screen there.
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I will briefly highlight the key points in this document.
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The first is related to responsibilities under the audit.
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Both the auditor and the auditee, being the authority, have responsibilities under the audit process.
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The auditee is responsible for providing records sufficient for audit, maintaining internal controls, complying with agreements, compliance requirements, and ultimately accepting responsibility for the financial report.
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The auditor is obviously required to conduct audit tests, test controls, and conduct tests conclusive enough to apply on the financial statements.
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The next item described in this letter
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are related to accounting estimates.
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That's the most audited financial statements.
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There are accounting estimates used to compile the figures contained in the document.
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The authority did have accounting estimates that were used most specifically to the appreciable lives of long-term assets or capital assets and estimates related to the measurement of net pension and OPEB liabilities.
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The next item described in this letter
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Difficulties encountered in the form of the audit, which you'll see would disclose no difficulties encountered in performing the audit or the audit field work for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023.
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Corrected uncorrected misstatements.
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Most audits produce audit adjustments.
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These adjustments are normal part of the audit process.
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Corrected audit adjustments are included in the financial statements.
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Uncorrected, just as they sound, are not included in the financial statements.
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And under professional standards, we're required to disclose in detail any uncorrected misstatements.
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And please report there are no uncorrected misstatements.
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We had no disagreements in applying any accounting principles.
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There was one accounting standard that was tested and was found to not apply to the authority this year.
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We're also required to disclose under professional standards our knowledge that management sought consultation from a second audit firm.
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It's also known as opinion shopping.
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And please report we have no knowledge of management seeking a second opinion.
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That concludes the letter to those charged with governance.
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Moving on to the actual bound financial report.
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On the screen there, you'll see the independent auditor's report.
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This is the first of two reports on the audit firm letterhead.
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Expands a course of three pages.
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We've issued an unmodified or a clean opinion, an opinion without modification on the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023 financial statements.
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In this document is a wealth of information.
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Much of that information is detailed.
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However, there are three summarized financial statements.
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Exhibits one, two, and three.
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We'll briefly review those for the board.
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Again, these amounts are for the fiscal ending June 30, 2023.
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Starting with the statement of net position.
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The statement of net position is now on pages 30 and 31 of this document.
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Net position being the term for equity was approximately 173 million at June 30, 2023.
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The second exhibit, exhibit two is a statement of revenues, expenses and changes in that position.
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Very similar to profit and loss for profit entity reports the increase or decrease in the equity or net position.
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The change in net position is the third number from the bottom of this statement.
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There's an increase in net position of approximately $8.2 million.
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Again, this is for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023.
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And lastly, Exhibit 3 is the statement of cash flows.
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A lot of information on this statement.
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Just as it sounds, this reports the increase or decrease strictly in the cash position.
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The ending cash position was 61 million.
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That is the double underline about halfway down the page.
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There you go.
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The report's a decrease in position, cash position of approximately 14.7.
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And you'll see the results of that decrease on this page.
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A lot of that is reported under the addition to capital assets.
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Cash was extended for capital asset purposes.
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So that summarizes the three financial statements.
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The last document I'd like to communicate with the board is the independent auditor's report on internal control over financial reporting.
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This is the report in which the auditor would describe any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the financial reporting structure or noncompliance with laws.
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Please report there are no significant deficiencies
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Financial Reporting Structure.
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Mr. Chairman, that concludes my remarks.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:24:46
Thank you, Matthew.
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Are there any questions for Matthew?
00:25:01
Am I on video?
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Let's say mute.
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I can hear you.
00:25:11
Can you hear me?
00:25:12
Yes.
00:25:13
Okay.
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Are there any comments or questions for Matthew?
00:25:20
Do we have a motion and a second to accept the auditor's report?
SPEAKER_04
00:25:26
So moved.
SPEAKER_02
00:25:28
Second.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:25:30
All in favor?
Matthew McLearen
Auditor
00:25:32
Aye.
00:25:34
Opposed?
00:25:35
Okay, motion passes.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:25:37
Next item is the Dam Safety Program Overview.
00:25:41
Victoria?
Victoria Fort
Senior Civil Engineer
00:25:44
Thank you.
00:25:44
Vicki Fort with the Engineering Department and I manage our Dam Safety Program.
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So today I'm going to give our annual overview of our dam facilities and our program.
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For anybody who's not familiar, this is an aerial shot of the Toadier Creek Dam down in Scottsville.
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Okay, quick agenda.
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I'm going to talk a bit about dam safety regulations and then how we have taken those regulations and put together a dam safety program.
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I'll talk a little bit about each of our dams and some of their features.
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I will go over how we plan for dam emergencies.
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And then lastly, I'll talk about some recent and current dam safety projects.
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So before I get too much into the program, I wanted to just throw out a few statistics to show how important dam safety is.
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So in the United States, it's estimated there are about 92,000 dams.
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So you can see on the chart on the right, about 65% of those are privately owned, the other 35% being either state, local, or federally owned, or owned by public utilities.
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The average age of dams in the United States is 61 years.
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Over 15,000 are high hazard, which means they would cause loss of life if they were to fail.
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15% of those are estimated to be deficient.
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A little bit closer zoomed in, there are over 3,700 dams in Virginia.
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The large share of those which are regulated, about half of them are just under half have an unknown hazard classification.
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So we don't really understand for about half the dams in the state, what the consequences would be if they were to fail.
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And then lastly, there are about 240 dams in Albemarle County, 167 of which are regulated.
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There are 20 high hazard dams, and then 118 or again, about half of those are unknown hazard potential classification.
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And then for reference, Rivanna operates 10 dams, seven of which are regulated.
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Next slide.
00:27:49
Okay, so usually I would go over recent high profile dam failure in the United States, but I thought this time I would talk more specifically about events in Virginia.
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So since the beginning of 2018, I found that there have been 39 reported dam incidents, five of which resulted in dam failure.
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which is fairly significant as far as I'm concerned.
00:28:13
So dam failures can have absolutely catastrophic consequences causing flooding, loss of life, and pretty severe economic damage.
00:28:21
And any damage caused by dam failure is the liability of the dam owner.
00:28:25
So that's something else that's important to understand.
00:28:28
So one of those 39 dam incidents occurred just west of town here.
00:28:32
That's the Clover Dam in Ivy.
00:28:34
That's the picture on the top on the left there.
00:28:36
That dam over top due to significant rains in early June of 2018, which caused some severe erosion on the downstream side of the dam.
00:28:45
I think they are just starting to get a consultant on board and they're going to have some pretty hefty rehab costs associated with that repair.
00:28:53
That same storm in late May to June of 2018 led to record reservoir levels at the South Rivanna Dam, which is on the bottom photo in the slide here.
00:29:03
Now that dam is designed for that level of storm, and so it did not sustain any significant damage, even though it was, as far as we know, the flood of record at that facility.
00:29:14
Next slide.
00:29:16
So in Virginia, the regulatory body for dam safety is the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, or DCR.
00:29:22
And they're responsible for ensuring that Virginia's dams have proper and safe design, construction, operation, and maintenance in order to protect public safety.
00:29:32
And every dam in Virginia is subject to those regulations unless they fall under one of three categories.
00:29:38
They're either under a certain size, so they're under a certain height, or there's under a certain volume of water impounded behind the dam.
00:29:45
Also exempted would be any dams owned or licensed by the federal government.
00:29:49
So currently our own South Rivanna Dam is licensed by the FERC.
00:29:53
So it is exempted from the state regulations.
00:29:56
And then the last exception would be any dams operated for mining agricultural or canal purposes.
00:30:01
And just locally here, there's a number of dams that are exempted for agricultural purposes, which means the state does not have oversight over those facilities.
00:30:09
Next slide.
00:30:11
So our program encompasses a number of facets and involves a lot of our staff to keep it going.
00:30:19
So obviously the permitting and regulatory compliance piece is a large part of it.
00:30:24
We also maintain and update and train on our emergency action plans, which we'll talk more about later in the presentation.
00:30:32
There's a lot of time and effort put into maintenance of the facilities and vegetation control.
00:30:38
We perform regular repairs and upgrades at the facilities to keep them in tip-top shape.
00:30:43
We have a component aimed at public safety and outreach.
00:30:48
We perform regular reports and studies in order to be compliant with the state regulations, of course, or federal.
00:30:55
Regular inspections by the Water Department, Maintenance Department, Engineering Department, and by our engineering consultants.
00:31:02
Regular surveys where necessary, constant monitoring via SCADA on site, and then obviously operating these facilities for water supply.
00:31:13
Okay, so I mentioned earlier, we have 10 dam facilities that we own and operate.
00:31:16
We have four high hazard dams, the South Rivanna Dam, Ragged Mountain, Sugar Hollow, and Beaver Creek.
00:31:22
We have three low hazard dams.
00:31:24
That's in Totier Creek in Scottsville, Lickinghole Creek Dam in Prose, and then the Buck Mountain Property Dam in Free Union.
00:31:31
And then the last three are facilities that fall below those size requirements for regulation.
00:31:37
So they are unregulated facilities.
00:31:39
And those include the North Fork Rivanna Lowhead Dam, the Meacham River Lowhead Dam, and the Ivy MUC Pond Dam that belongs to the Solid Waste Authority.
00:31:49
So all of you should be familiar with the South Fork Rivanna Dam.
00:31:52
Again, that is currently a FERC regulated dam, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
00:31:57
It was built in 1965.
00:31:59
And then in 1987, a small hydropower facility was added, which is the reason why it is regulated by FERC.
00:32:05
That facility is in the process of being decommissioned.
00:32:08
So hopefully by this time next year, we will actually fall back under those state regulations.
00:32:13
So hopefully that project keeps on moving.
00:32:16
This is located on the South Fork of the Rivanna River and it is the intake for the South Rivanna Water Treatment Plant.
00:32:25
It's a concrete gravity dam and is 700 feet long and 54 feet tall.
00:32:31
Next.
00:32:33
This is the Ragged Mountain Dam, state regulated dam built between 2012 and 2014.
00:32:38
It replaced historical dams built in 1885 and 1908.
00:32:43
It's an earth filler embankment dam, 785 feet long and 125 feet tall.
00:32:49
So by far the largest earthen dam that we operate.
00:32:52
And then as Bill was discussing earlier, it was built to accommodate an additional 12 feet of normal pool or an additional 700 million gallons of storage.
00:33:03
And that dam serves the observatory or provides raw water to the observatory water treatment plant.
00:33:10
This is the Sugar Hollow Dam.
00:33:11
Another state regulated dam built in 1948 and then upgraded in 1998 to have a rubber crest gate across the crest of the dam.
00:33:23
That crest gate was replaced in 2021 and we would expect that to have, again, about a 20 year service life.
00:33:29
It's a concrete gravity dam.
00:33:31
It is 480 feet long and 96 feet tall and there is a pipe that runs from the Sugar Hollow Dam to fill the Ragged Mountain reservoir.
00:33:39
Next.
00:33:41
This is the Beaver Creek Dam.
00:33:42
So it's a view from the upstream looking at the upstream side of the embankment.
00:33:48
It is a state regulated dam built in 1963 as a water supply and as a flood control structure.
00:33:53
So it was actually built through a natural resources conservation service program.
00:33:59
It's an earth filler and bank dam, 530 feet long and 60 feet tall.
00:34:04
It also serves as an Albemarle County park in Crozet.
00:34:07
So there's a lot of folks visiting that site on a day to day basis.
00:34:11
There's a state road along the crest of that dam, that's Brown's Gap Turnpike.
00:34:16
And this spillway is undersized to meet current dam safety regulations.
00:34:20
And so the
00:34:22
Design of an upgraded spillway is currently underway and that is being funded entirely by NRCS, which is a division of the USDA.
00:34:31
Next.
00:34:33
Alright, these are two of the three low hazard dams.
00:34:35
So, Todia Creek is on the left side.
00:34:36
It's an earth-filled dam built in 1971.
00:34:39
It's 277 feet long and 35 feet tall.
00:34:43
And that also serves as an Albemarle County park in Scottsville.
00:34:48
and then Toadier Creek Reservoir is the water source for the Scottsville water treatment plant.
00:34:54
And then on the right side is the Looking Hole Creek Dam.
00:34:56
It's a state regulated dam located just south of the Beaver Creek Reservoir.
00:35:02
It was built in 1995.
00:35:05
It's a concrete gravity dam and it actually doesn't serve a water supply function, but it serves to catch sediment that would make its way into the South Fork Reservoir drainage basin.
00:35:16
That is 458 feet long and 32 feet tall.
00:35:19
Next.
00:35:21
Alright, this is the Buck Mountain Property Dam.
00:35:23
This is a small embankment dam that was built in the early 1980s and then it was acquired a couple years after that by Rivanna as part of the Buck Mountain Property purchase.
00:35:34
So it does not supply, I'm sorry, it does not perform any water supply function.
00:35:38
It just is simply part of that property.
00:35:41
As I mentioned, it's an earth bell dam.
00:35:43
It's 190 feet long, 33 and a half feet tall.
00:35:46
And we have found through recent studies that its primary spillway conduit has reached the end of its useful life.
00:35:51
So that dam will have to be repaired or removed or a number of other options that we're assessing in the coming years.
00:36:00
And then these are our three unregulated facilities.
00:36:03
As I mentioned, that's due to their size.
00:36:05
So on the upper left, that's the North Rivanna low head dam to small low head intake that serves in North Rivanna water treatment plan.
00:36:12
That plant is scheduled to be decommissioned in the next couple years.
00:36:15
So that dam also will be decommissioned as part of that project.
00:36:19
In the middle is the Meacham River low head dam that was a river intake that is no longer in service.
00:36:25
And that also I think is slated for decommissioning.
00:36:30
I don't think we have a schedule on that just yet, but that will eventually be removed.
00:36:34
And then the Ivy MUC pond dam is on the upper right.
00:36:37
That is located at the IVMUC.
00:36:40
It's primarily at this point, it's going to serve a fire safety water storage purpose.
00:36:51
So we kept the dam, but we lowered it in order to fall below those regulatory height thresholds.
00:36:57
And then there's some minor modifications that are going to be done coming up so that we can have a dry hydrant located there.
00:37:04
Next.
00:37:05
Okay so to plan for dam emergencies it really starts with good design and good construction and then of course maintenance and then prevention.
00:37:15
So dam emergencies are low probability events but they have the potential for extremely high impact and so dams are designed with a very high level of conservatism in order to minimize the potential for failure or other emergencies.
00:37:27
Some things that can cause dam emergencies and failure
00:37:30
would be rainfall in excess of a dam's design.
00:37:33
That's actually the most common way that a dam fails.
00:37:36
Material failure or failure in the construction can cause dam failure, vandalism or terrorism.
00:37:44
And then we would also consider an accident or a public safety event at a dam to be a dam emergency.
00:37:50
Next.
00:37:51
When you refer to a dam's hazard potential classification, it's referring to basically the severity of consequences from the dam's failure or misoperation.
00:37:59
It is not a reflection in any way of dam's condition.
00:38:02
So a high hazard potential dam means that if the dam were to fail, it would probably cause loss of life and very severe economic damage.
00:38:11
A significant hazard potential dam means that upon failure, you may see loss of life
00:38:16
or some appreciable economic damage and a low hazard potential dams means that you would not expect any loss of life or any significant economic damage from its failure.
00:38:26
And what that hazard potential classification dictates is basically the design criteria for the dam.
00:38:33
So the higher the hazard potential classification, the larger the storm and the higher amount of rainfall that that dam has to be built to withstand.
00:38:42
Next slide.
00:38:44
Another term you'll hear me talk about when you're referencing dam safety is the probable maximum precipitation and then the probable maximum flood.
00:38:51
So the probable maximum precipitation or the PMP is the theoretical greatest amount of precipitation that you would ever expect to see within a particular drainage basin.
00:39:02
So basically the most dam in a specific area or sorry, the most rain in a specific area over a period of time.
00:39:11
Every drainage basin has a different value for the PMP.
00:39:14
So for example, Sugar Hollow, it's about 34 inches of rain in 24 hours.
00:39:19
Whereas in the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir, I think it's closer to 25 inches of rain in 24 hours.
00:39:26
In Virginia, dams that have a high hazard potential have to be designed to pass at least 90% of the probable maximum flood, which is the flood that results from the PMP rainfall.
00:39:39
And Rivanna
00:39:40
requires its high hazard dams to pass 100% of the PMP.
00:39:43
So we build in that extra level of conservatism to account for potential future changes in regulations and also potential changes in rainfall patterns and frequency.
00:39:54
Next.
SPEAKER_05
00:40:00
Thank you.
Victoria Fort
Senior Civil Engineer
00:40:01
So to give you a sense of the scale of that type of storm, this table on the left, or I'm sorry, this chart on the left is
00:40:10
for rainfall within the Sugar Hollow drainage basin.
00:40:13
So a two year storm or a storm you would expect to occur once every two years would produce about 3.68 inches of rain over a 24 hour period.
00:40:23
A 100 year storm would produce just over nine inches of rain in 24 hours, whereas a PMP is 34 inches of rain in 24 hours.
00:40:32
Now that sounds extreme, but we've seen extreme rainfall in central Virginia in the last century.
00:40:37
So Hurricane Camille, which some of you may recall,
00:40:39
In Nelson County in 1969, brought over 27 inches of rain overnight, which is about 81% of a PMP rainfall event.
00:40:47
And in Madison County in 1995, there was 25 to 30 inches of rain recorded in 16 hours, which is about 86% of a PMP.
00:40:56
Next.
00:41:03
So a big part of what we do as part of our dam safety program is preparing for emergencies at our dams.
00:41:11
So a big part of it is the dam safety program, which we already talked about and the things that we can do internally.
00:41:17
There is also development and maintenance and distribution and training of the emergency action plans, which we'll talk about more in a few slides.
00:41:25
And then the public safety piece because many folks will say dam safety is a shared responsibility.
00:41:31
So our ability to communicate the hazard to some of the downstream property owners and businesses also helps us in the event of an emergency to act accordingly.
00:41:41
So that includes putting up signs,
00:41:44
being able to share alerts, downstream notifications, and then outreach opportunities.
00:41:50
Next slide.
00:41:56
Okay, so I've mentioned several times dam emergency action plans, and they are required
00:42:01
to be developed for all high hazard dams in Virginia.
00:42:05
So what they are is they lay out a set of pre-planned actions to minimize or alleviate emergency conditions at a dam during an emergency.
00:42:12
So they contain procedures and information on issuing early warning notifications, and that's in order to minimize or prevent loss of life and property damage during an emergency event.
00:42:23
It lays out the required coordination between VDAM, the emergency communication center locally, local police, fire rescue,
00:42:30
VDOT, the media, local government and others.
00:42:35
Next.
00:42:39
Here's a picture of our four high hazard emergency action plans.
00:42:43
And they're all color coded.
00:42:45
So you will always see the same color binder associated with the same plan as are updated on an annual basis.
00:42:51
Next.
00:42:56
One thing that the EAP outlines is our responsibilities and that of the community.
00:43:00
So Rivanna is responsible during an emergency to verify and assess emergency conditions at the dam, notify any participating emergency management agencies, take any corrective action at the facility that is available or possible,
00:43:14
issue condition status reports.
00:43:16
And then lastly, we would be responsible for terminating any emergency at the facility once we feel that the emergency has ended.
00:43:23
And then any outside agencies, which includes the Emergency Communications Center and the Associated Fire Rescue Police, et cetera.
00:43:31
And then the county and city governments, they are responsible for receiving those condition status reports from Rivanna,
00:43:38
making notifications to the public, coordinating and conducting evacuations from inundation areas if required, and then providing any mutual aid and or declaring local emergencies which can bring additional resources to our area.
00:43:53
Next.
00:43:56
This is an example of a notification chart in one of our EAPs.
00:43:59
So EAPs provide descriptions of different emergency scenarios and stages.
00:44:03
So you can basically assess the stage of the emergency and then act accordingly.
00:44:10
So the first condition would be a non-failure emergency or stage one basically means
00:44:15
The dam, you know, there's extreme rainfall usually is that condition.
00:44:19
We are monitoring the facilities.
00:44:20
We'll let you know if anything changes.
00:44:22
Stage two would mean that a potential failure situation is developing either, you know, the rainfall is expected to continue.
00:44:30
There is potential risk in the future of the dam overtopping and failing.
00:44:34
It could mean there is seepage in the dam that
00:44:36
It seems to be accelerating a rapid rate.
00:44:38
The situation is changing.
00:44:39
So we're going to continue to monitor.
00:44:41
And then stage three would be failure is imminent or has occurred.
00:44:45
The dam is actively failing or we expect it to fail imminently.
00:44:49
So that kind of classifies the emergency condition that we're experiencing.
00:44:54
And then it lays out written prompts and actions for each of those situations.
00:45:00
Next.
00:45:02
All right, here's an example of our dam breach inundation maps.
00:45:05
There's a set of maps included with every copy of the EAPs.
00:45:08
And what that's going to show you is under various failure scenarios, which areas downstream of the dam would be inundated or flooded.
00:45:17
And then it highlights impacted structures and then calls out under you see those green call outs.
00:45:24
It calls out roadways and bridges that would be impacted and then
00:45:31
Included in those call outs is basically the time of arrival of the initial flood wave, the peak, the time of arrival of the peak flood, how tall you would expect that flood to be.
00:45:41
So whether we're talking about two additional feet of water in the stream or 20 feet of additional water in the stream.
00:45:48
And then it talks about peak discharge and some other useful information.
00:45:52
So that just helps the emergency services folks and us internally assess
00:45:56
How much time we have to act, where we need to focus our resources, which roadways might need to be closed, that sort of thing.
00:46:04
And then lastly, just to talk on a few projects that we have ongoing or recently completed.
00:46:10
So as I mentioned, the South Fork Rivanna dam hydropower facility is in the process of being decommissioned, and we expect that to be done sometime next year.
00:46:20
We are also in the process of installing a reservoir level monitoring station at the Licking Hole Creek Dam.
00:46:25
That's the only one of our dams that doesn't currently have a level sensor.
00:46:29
So we're excited to get that in place in the next couple months.
00:46:32
In planning and design right now includes the Beaver Creek Dam spillway upgrades.
00:46:36
So as I mentioned, we just started final design on that with NRCS funding.
00:46:41
And that will hopefully be ready to bid in about 20 months.
00:46:45
We also are planning a dam concrete and steel repair.
00:46:48
That's more of just a long term maintenance project on several facilities.
00:46:53
I'm doing a review of our public safety plans and signage design at several facilities.
00:46:58
So that's underway.
00:47:00
And then as I mentioned as well, the Buck Mountain property dam will need some radiation.
00:47:06
And then lastly, we always have annual maintenance permitting and other activities going on.
00:47:11
So monthly tree and brush clearing.
00:47:13
We do seasonal or biennial clearing of brush and stream channels to keep that clear of obstructions.
00:47:20
We have ongoing instrumentation, maintenance and calibration by our water and maintenance departments.
00:47:27
And then on more of the regulatory side, we are planning an EAP tabletop exercise next year.
00:47:33
And what that will do is basically bring together our local
00:47:38
emergency management agencies, emergency services personnel, fire rescue, et cetera.
00:47:45
It'll bring together the regulators.
00:47:47
So the DCR folks, you'll probably get some folks from VITAM and then obviously some Rivanna folks.
00:47:53
And then we'll all get in a room and do a practice exercise, you know, with the whole scenario and basically run through what the EAP actions would dictate and then see how we do.
00:48:04
So I'm excited to get that going next year.
00:48:08
Any questions?
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:48:13
Thank you for that presentation.
00:48:14
It was very interesting.
00:48:15
How do you, for example, like a South Fork being a dam, how do you do inspections?
00:48:25
I can see how you do inspections on the downstream side.
00:48:29
Do you on the upstream side have a scuba diver go check every five or 10 years, or how does that work?
Victoria Fort
Senior Civil Engineer
00:48:35
We don't do dive inspections at that facility unless we're looking at specific features.
00:48:40
So we've had divers go in and look at gates on the upstream side.
00:48:44
Anytime the dam stops spilling, which it did this summer, we'll usually try and get out and do a survey of the monuments across the crest to see if there's been any movement since the previous survey.
00:48:55
And then we'll also get detailed photos of various dam features so you can see if there's cracks that have widened
00:49:03
If there's any new seeps that we hadn't noticed in previous inspections.
00:49:08
So those types of things will help you see the facilities that are not otherwise visible.
00:49:12
And then for our regular inspections, currently we have personnel from FERP come down every year and do an inspection with our staff.
00:49:20
And we'll look at all the various features of the dam, the abutments, existing seepage,
00:49:26
the concrete condition.
00:49:27
We'll look at the hydropower facility.
00:49:30
We'll look at vegetation to make sure that's appropriately managed, those types of things.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:49:36
Thank you.
SPEAKER_05
00:49:43
Thank you.
00:49:43
I just was wondering where the low head Meacham's River Dam is.
Victoria Fort
Senior Civil Engineer
00:49:50
It is located, I'm not going to be very good at
00:49:54
talking through it without a map, but where the Sugar Hollow raw water line crosses the Meacham's River, so it is, yeah, I can't, it's northwest sort of Albemarle County.
00:50:11
I can't describe it without a map, and I'm not sure what the nearest road is, but we have an access road that actually has to be cleared on a regular basis, because it's not accessible via any main roads.
SPEAKER_05
00:50:22
So it's probably near Whippoorwill down there in the bottom of the dip between Garth Road and where Owensville comes around.
00:50:28
That's my guess.
00:50:29
But anyway, I'll find out.
00:50:33
Thank you.
00:50:34
Tillman.
00:50:35
Oh, OK.
00:50:35
Very good.
00:50:36
Tillman.
00:50:36
Thank you.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:50:37
You bet.
00:50:44
Any other questions for Victoria?
00:50:49
Well, thank you so much, Victoria.
00:50:50
That was great.
00:50:52
Bill, are there any, or this for everyone, any other items from board or staff not on the agenda?
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:51:03
Go ahead.
00:51:06
Returning back to the financial report earlier, there's a lot of information in there.
00:51:13
One of the interesting pieces was just seeing the very detailed
00:51:21
Computations on our pension liabilities and which I'm glad that we're doing that.
00:51:28
Do we ever, I know that for example, with the city, I'm on the retirement commission and we meet, I've got a meeting tomorrow with those guys and that the city has decided to manage its own retirement, which I find interesting.
00:51:45
But Rivanna is with the VRS system, correct?
00:51:51
Correct.
00:51:53
Have we ever, do you see, and I'm not, I don't know the answer to this or not, one way or the other, have you ever given a presentation to the board in terms of how well funded we are with our retirees or folks planning to retire?
00:52:10
Is that something that's, maybe there's no value in doing that because it's all VRS, but it is something that I wonder about.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
00:52:21
We've not done a presentation, Brian, that I can recall.
00:52:24
As you note, we're in the VRS system and they, I think I've read, they give a report to the General Assembly periodically, along with the budget of their level of funding of the VRS program.
00:52:41
I can't recite any numbers right now, but there are large
00:52:46
A number of localities and authorities and even cities that are members of VRS.
00:52:52
I recently did do a Google search of who's participating in VRS.
00:52:58
There's quite a list.
00:53:00
So they have a very large portfolio, as you can imagine.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:53:06
The university is part of VRS.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
00:53:11
Yeah.
00:53:12
I think VRS is doing pretty well on the funding, but I can't cite a percentage to you for it.
00:53:19
I know the General Assembly at one point was putting money back into VRS.
00:53:24
I think because they borrowed money at some point in the past and they were paying it back to help make sure VRS was appropriately funded.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:53:35
Basically from the board's perspective and from Rivanna's perspective,
00:53:41
for lack of a better word, outsource our retirement to VRS.
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
00:53:46
Yeah, VRS tells us each year what our premium, I believe, is going to be, what our percent increase to their contribution.
00:53:54
So Rivanna contributes to VRS as does each employee.
00:53:59
We both contribute to that retirement program.
00:54:03
And they set the rates for the organizations each year based on their
00:54:10
funding status.
00:54:13
Okay.
00:54:13
All right.
00:54:14
Thank you.
00:54:15
Yes, sir.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:54:18
Any other items from the board?
Bill Mawyer
Executive Director
00:54:23
Is there any reason?
00:54:25
Not from us, Mr. Chairman, but we do wish everyone a happy holidays and thank you for another good year in 2023.
00:54:33
It was a great year.
00:54:35
We look forward to many exciting things in 2024.
SPEAKER_05
00:54:40
I'm so glad I was able to get in in time to hear the Dam Safety Report.
00:54:43
That was fascinating.
00:54:44
Thank you all very much.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:54:47
Thank you.
00:54:49
And Bill, thank you and your staff for another great year.
00:54:51
I appreciate it.
00:54:55
You're welcome.
00:54:57
Jeff.
Jeff Richardson
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority / Secretary-Treasurer, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:54:57
Mike, I think Ms. Malek sort of read my mind.
00:55:00
I was going to ask that the minutes reflect that Ms. Malek was able to get into the meeting.
00:55:06
She was coming from another meeting, I know, representing the county.
00:55:09
And then she stepped into this meeting after attendance had been taken.
00:55:12
And I know that we wanted to make sure that the record showed that she did participate in this meeting as well.
SPEAKER_05
00:55:20
I think I snuck in about 2.35 PM.
00:55:24
Thank you very much.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:55:25
Thank you, Ann.
00:55:27
Thanks, Ann.
Jeff Richardson
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority / Secretary-Treasurer, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:55:28
And I'd like to second the comments on the staff.
00:55:33
I'd like to also thank the staff for an absolutely amazing year.
00:55:39
Bill and his team really show a lot of adaptability and they show a ton of responsiveness, not to just this board, but to our community.
00:55:49
Your future planning, you're looking into the future and trying to figure out where we need to be in five and 10 years and 15 years.
00:55:59
Bill, you and your team really deserve a real applaud from the community and from this board.
00:56:06
I really appreciate your hard work, and so thank you.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:56:09
Thank you, Jeff.
00:56:11
Yeah, I think we can all echo that, Jeff.
00:56:14
Congratulations, Bill, on another great year, and we look forward to a wonderful 2024.
00:56:20
Thank you.
00:56:24
So I do have to ask, is there any reason for a closed meeting?
00:56:28
No, sir.
00:56:30
OK, do we have a motion and a second to adjourn?
SPEAKER_05
00:56:34
Happy New Year, everyone.
00:56:35
Merry holidays.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:56:37
Is that a motion, Ann?
SPEAKER_05
00:56:40
That's my adjournment motion.
Mike Gaffney
Chair, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:56:42
Second.
00:56:44
Second.
Brian Pinkston
Member, Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority
00:56:47
Bye.
00:56:49
Bye.
00:56:49
Bye.
00:56:51
Bye.
SPEAKER_04
00:56:51
Happy holidays, everyone.