TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT TEAM

BOR: Tony Norris\Pat McGrane          BPA: Scott Bettin\Robyn MacKay

NMFS: Paul Wagner\Chris Ross          USFWS: David Wills\Howard Schaller

OR: Christine Mallette     WA: Shane Scott    ID: Steve Pettit     MT: Jim Litchfield 

   COE: Cindy Henriksen\Rudd Turner\Cathy Hlebechuk

TMT Meeting
  15 August 2001          0900 - 1200 hours

Custom House          Room 118 Portland, Oregon
Conference call line:    503-808-5190

All members are encouraged to call Donna Silverberg with any issues or concerns they would like to see addressed. Please e-mail her at dsilverberg@cnnw.net or call her at (503) 248-4703.

AGENDA

1. Welcome, introductions.

2. McNary mixers status (Mark Smith, COE - NWW).   McNary Temperature Concerns (Powerpoint file)

3. Summer water temperature conditions -- compare Mass 1 model vs. 2001 actual (COE).   MASS1 Plot - 2001_Scenario4_daily (Excel file - 13MB)
All Water Temperatures (Excel file - 2MB)

4. Summer water temperature conditions -- compare RBM10 model vs. 2001 actual (EPA)   EPA Model Results (Excel file - 148KB)

5. Incident report on 8/9/01 load rejection at The Dalles (COE)

6. IT report (NMFS).

7. Biological benefits of summer spill (NMFS).

8. Dworshak -- rampdown schedule, September operation.

9. Review current system conditions.

·        reservoir operation, water supply, water quality (COE, BOR)

·        hydrosystem storage, power system status, winter reliability (BPA)

·        fish migration status (NMFS, USFWS)

10. Review operations requests.

11. Develop recommended operations.

12. Review revised TMT Emergency Protocols (WMP Appendix 2 - Word file).

13. TMT end-of-year review agenda -- identify data desired.

14. Other.

·        set agenda for 29 August TMT meeting

·        Invite members to stay after TMT adjournment to discuss TMT process with Corps Management Internship Program

Questions about the meeting may be referred to Rudd Turner at (503) 808-3935, or Cindy Henriksen at (503) 808-3945.