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PROGRAMMATIC STORMWATER MANAGEMENT FACILITY <br /> MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT <br /> Rice Creek Watershed District and <br /> the [CITY] <br /> This Agreement is by and between the Rice Creek Watershed District, a special purpose unit of <br /> government with powers set forth in Minnesota Statutes Chapters 103B and 103D (RCWD), and the <br /> [CITY], a charter city and political subdivision of the State of Minnesota (CITY). <br /> Recitals <br /> WHEREAS pursuant to Minnesota Statutes � 103D.345, the RCWD has adopted and implements <br /> Rule C, Stormwater Management Plans; <br /> WHEREAS under Rule C, certain land development activity requires a landowner to record a <br /> declaration establishing the landowner's perpetual obligation to inspect and maintain stormwater <br /> management facilities; <br /> WHEREAS a public landowner may memorialize its obligations in an unrecorded written agreement <br /> with the RCWD instead of a recorded instrument; <br /> WHEREAS from time to time CITY is subject to stormwater facility maintenance requirements <br /> pursuant to the terms of an RCWD permit; <br /> WHEREAS CITY, as a Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4), is obligated to inspect and <br /> maintain its stormwater management facilities in accordance with the terms of a Clean Water Act <br /> permit administered by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and the parties desire to promote <br /> consistency in facility management requirements consistent with RCWD authority to set <br /> requirements necessary to meet its rules;and <br /> WHEREAS the RCWD and CITY concur that it is more effective and procedurally more efficient <br /> for the RCWD and CITY to agree on standard requirements for stormwater facility inspection and <br /> maintenance, and to memorialize these requirements in this Agreement for incorporation into future <br /> permits. <br /> THEREFORE: <br /> 1. CITY agrees to inspect and maintain all stormwater best management practices (BMPs), <br /> owned by the City or maintained by the City under another intergovernmental agreement, that have <br /> been permitted by the RCWD under Rule C as follows: <br /> a. Outfalls, sediment basins, retention/detention ponds will be inspected at least once every <br /> five years. If warranted by required sediment removal or maintenance needs, inspections <br /> will be conducted at a greater frequency. <br /> b. Structural stormwater management facilities including, but not limited to,grit chambers, <br /> sump catch basins, sump manholes and appurtenant conveyances, as well as infiltration and <br /> 1 <br /> 20 <br />