WQAB recaps SPET water-quality funding split, flags monitoring and TBD projects
After county commissioners set a SPET funding split for water-quality work, the Water Quality Advisory Board reviewed the $6.9M outline March 20, including three sewer-district allocations tied to monitoring and two county buckets still to be defined.
Teton County’s Water Quality Advisory Board (WQAB) reviewed county commissioners’ latest direction on how to split Special Purpose Excise Tax (SPET) dollars for water-quality work, including sewer projects and future monitoring/studies funding. The outline totals $6.897 million and was on WQAB’s March 20 agenda as an “overview of BCC direction.” (Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda)
Per the agenda, the Board of County Commissioners’ direction was to fund the Wilson Sewer District at $2.25 million, the Elk Refuge Sewer District at $1.25 million, and the Town of Jackson at $1.5 million — each labeled “/ Monitoring.” Trout Unlimited was listed for $80,000. (Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda)
Two remaining county-controlled buckets were shown as still open-ended: $1.5 million for “Teton County Infrastructure” (projects “TBD”) and $317,000 for “Teton County Monitoring and Studies” (projects “TBD”). WQAB also listed “Correspondence to BCC” as a discussion item, signaling a potential follow-up memo or recommended conditions tied to the commissioners’ allocations. (Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda)
Source Documents
| Date | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|
| March 20, 2026 | Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda | agenda |