Chama Meeting with Sean Blake from SD1 01_06_2023

January 6, 2023

Melissa Conner

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Chama Meeting with Sean Blake from SD1 1/6/2023

Meeting Notes

• From the Discussion between Anne and Sudhir before the meeting. There is no really easy way of documenting a plume in the network visually. Both Anne and Kathrine have done it in the past. However, they both did it slightly differently and used different software. Anne had some pro video software and Kathrine used open-source software. From what I understood it involves taking multiple images at the same zoom level and stringing them together in video software. Anne has sent out the YouTube videos.
• The criteria for sensor placement in any area. (These locations should be scouted multiple times before a sensor is placed):
  • What is the Budget (How many sensors can we place?)
  • What data do we need the sensors to bring back. (If we are in the middle of the country, we might need less sensors than in the middle of the city. Despite the land area of the country being greater than the land area in the city.)
  • Is it going to get vandalized or destroyed
  • Is the sensor location good for getting data (Is the sensor going to get covered by sediment or debris. Are boulders or rocks going to interfere with what we are measuring?)
  • Can we get to the sensor location. (This is the last consideration.)
• Since Banklick Downstream is part of a larger Banklick watershed one location that will likely be important is the edges where the water inflow comes in.
• Places like fire stations and Police stations are not generally that much help as checking on the sensor and making sure that it is not vandalized is not a high priority.
• Banklick Watershed Council may be a resource that we want to investigate. There website is https://www.banklick.org/ According to there website they primarily do the following:
  • Land Conservation
  • Septic Grants
  • Pasture Management
  • Stormwater Program
• There was some talk of the SD1 Banklick model being part of training material.
• Also, some discussion on how the counts that we are doing for radiological data was originally for Bacterial counts. That is something that might be of more interest to SD1 as it is a more immediate application of the work we are doing.
• Sean from SD1 is going to use his GIS maps to give us some possible locations for good sensor placement with his experience with the downstream Banklick Watershed.