WQ advisory board slated to prioritize $1.817M in county SPET water projects

Teton County’s Water Quality Advisory Board (WQAB) met March 20 to discuss how to prioritize the remaining $1.817 million in SPET water-quality funding that commissioners have set aside for county-controlled work — $1.5 million for infrastructure projects and $317,000 for monitoring and studies, with specific projects still listed as “TBD” in the meeting agenda. Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda.

The posted agenda shows the board planned to review the Board of County Commissioners’ SPET direction as part of a “WQ SPET Workshop,” alongside already-scoped allocations that included Wilson Sewer District ($2.25 million, with monitoring), Elk Refuge Sewer District ($1.25 million, with monitoring), the Town of Jackson ($1.5 million, with monitoring) and Trout Unlimited ($80,000). Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda.

The agenda also lists “WQAB Correspondence to BCC” as a discussion item, which is where any formal recommendation, project ranking, or conditions (such as required monitoring plans or reporting) would typically be adopted. However, the public-facing record currently posted in the county’s document system for March 20 appears to include only the agenda and does not include meeting minutes, a correspondence draft, or an action record showing what the board ultimately recommended for the $1.817 million. Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda.

Next up, the agenda lists a future item on April 14 related to long-range planning and potential land-use code updates tied to water quality. Water Quality Advisory Board Meeting Agenda.