Water Quality board to review commissioners’ latest SPET funding direction

Teton County’s Water Quality Advisory Board (WQAB) is scheduled to meet March 20 to walk through the Board of County Commissioners’ latest direction on how to allocate remaining Water Quality SPET funding and what monitoring expectations may be attached to those dollars. The discussion is framed as an “overview of BCC direction” following a prior workshop on SPET water-quality allocations. See: Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda.

According to the agenda, the commissioners’ direction includes proposed SPET funding levels of $2.25 million for the Wilson Sewer District and $1.25 million for the Elk Refuge Sewer District—both flagged with “/ Monitoring”—as well as $1.5 million for the Town of Jackson, also paired with “/ Monitoring.” The agenda also lists $80,000 for Trout Unlimited and two county-controlled buckets: $1.5 million for “Teton County Infrastructure” (projects TBD) and $317,000 for “Teton County Monitoring and Studies” (projects TBD). Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda.

WQAB members are also slated to revisit the board’s 2025 recommendations (linked in the agenda) and hear updates from subcommittees focused on small wastewater systems, regionalization, and financing. The board’s conversation could shape what monitoring conditions or project criteria it asks commissioners to include before final SPET allocations are approved. Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda.