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Wind River Environmental Quality Commission

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

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Wind River Environmental Quality Commission

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  1. Wind River Environmental Quality Commission Eastern Shoshone & Northern Arapaho Tribes Of the Wind River Indian Reservation WWW.WREQC.COM

  2. 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

  3. Map of Water Quality Sampling Sites

  4. 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 WREQC 106 Activities

  5. Collecting Bacteria Samples

  6. Bacteria Incubator

  7. Bacteria Sampling for E-Coli and Total Colifrom

  8. Bacteria sampling

  9. Lake Monitoring Program Baseline data collection of six (6) lakes and reservoirs on the Reservation

  10. Lake Monitoring at Dinwoody Lake

  11. Lake monitoring

  12. Collecting Plankton

  13. Moccasin Lake (elevation 8200ft)

  14. 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)

  15. Measuring Discharge.

  16. 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

  17. Collecting Macros in March

  18. Field Elutriation

  19. Outreach Program • The WREQC Water Quality program works with the Wyoming Indian School District and The Native Waters summer Program.

  20. Looking at Macroinvertebrates with the Native Waters Camp

  21. Collecting Bugs with Wyoming Indian High School

  22. Inter-Agency Coordination • The WREQC participates in numerous on-sight 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

  23. On Sight Inspection of the Devon natural gas and Coalbed methane

  24. Onsite Inspection of a Leaking Oil Tank

  25. 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.

  26. NPDES Discharge point

  27. Thank you for your time

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