2024-12-12 Introductory Meeting notes

 Date

Dec 12, 2024

 Participants

• @Rachel Hobbs

• @Stacy Timmons

• David McSherry, Public Works Director City of Deming

• Windia Cassy, Public Works Executive Assistant, City of Deming

 Goals

• To understand the water data that Deming is generating and understand the type of direction they need to participate in the water data initiative

 Discussion topics

• Deming has some AWWSA funding that requires supporting water data initiative

• They want to know what we need for our studies

• Water data act covers all water data

• We (NMBGMR) are working on groundwater level measurements

• Deming is 100% using groundwater- no surface water

• Deming has a SCADA system, just in the final stages of converting it to the new system Not all the data points are tied in.

• Monitoring wells- are required to report to NMED twice a year. Have quite a few monitoring wells across the city's infrastructure. Collecting data, but just send it in an email to NMED.

• Farm wells that have leased out to people- irrigation/pumping wells.

• No wells have pressure transducers. Were planning to do it but, its a lot of work for his staff.

• David is curious about potential possibilities for telemetered monitoring.

• Want to start with water level data. What is the best way to share data

  • To upload to data catalog- then we can pull into Weaver.

• Water level monitoring

• Production data

• Drinking water data through NMED

• No reservoir stages

• Jim Massengill was previous to David McSherry- Stacy had met him.

• Questions

  • Is there specific work for AWWA grant? and specific time period?

  •  

 Action items

 Decisions