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� <br />EN HILLS <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: November 14, 2011 <br />TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers <br />Patrick Klaers, City Administrator �� <br />FROM: Terry Maurer, Public Works Director 1� <br />SUBJECT: Surface Water Management Plan Update <br />Background <br />According to State law and Rice Creek Watershed� District (RCWD) policy the City must <br />update our Surface Water Management Plan within two years of RCWD adopting their <br />update plan. Our plan must be brought into compliance with RCWD's plan. RCWD <br />adopted its 2010 Watershed Management Plan (WMP) on June 9, 2010, so the City needs , <br />to have its update Plan approved by the RCWD Board of Managers by June 9, 2012. <br />The 2011 CIP has a$100,000 item for updating the City plan. A copy of the CIP sheet is <br />attached. <br />In my review of this item it has always been my intent to get as much useful information <br />that wi11 be needed in the future with this update while still meeting the requirement to <br />bring our plan into compliance with RCWD's plan. The type of additional information <br />we would like to acquire is an inventory of ponds and other water bodies the City is <br />responsible for maintaining along with GPS locations, photos, and inspections of all <br />inlets/outlets to these ponds. The inspection function is a requirement of our current MS4 <br />permit; in fact we are supposed to be done with this work but have not even started. The <br />pond inventory will be a requirement of our new MS4 permit which should be issued in <br />2012. <br />After much discussion and analysis of how to achieve both of these goals we believe the <br />best way will be to break them into separate tasks. We believe the best and most cost- <br />effective way to successful(y get our plan updated and approved by RCWD is through <br />our JPA with Roseville using a Maplewood staff engineer (Roseville has a JPA with <br />Maplewood which makes their staff available to the City). I have discussed the project <br />City Council Meeting <br />P:�,4dmin\Council�Agendas & Packet Information�2011\l 1-14-11 Regular�Packet InformationlSurfaceWaterMgmtPlan.doc <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />