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<br />~ <br /> <br />Metropolitan Council <br /> <br />Improve regional competitiveness in a global economy <br /> <br />Environmental Services <br /> <br />December 6,2001 <br /> <br />District Administrator <br />Rice Creek Watershed District <br />3585 Lexington Avenue North, Suite 330 <br />Arden Hills, Minnesota 55126-8056 <br /> <br />RE: City of Centerville <br />Surface Water Management Plan <br />Metropolitan Council Referral File No. 16466-6 <br /> <br />Council staff has completed its review of the City's Second Draft Surface Water <br />Managelnent Plan iLL accordance \\-yith !vfinnesota Statutes Section l03B.235, Subdivision <br />3a. <br /> <br />General <br />The first paragraph on page I-I of the draft document makes reference to a revised <br />comprehensive plan for the city. The City's plan was presented to the Council if) October <br />of 1997. The final plan should (instead) include in the Executive Summary, the date <br />when the city put its revised comprehensive plan into effect. <br /> <br />The draft document makes reference on page 6-3 to Chapter 4.1 of the MPCA's best <br />management practices manual. The manual's March 2000 revision has relocated the <br />discussion on detention ponds to Chapter 5. We suggest the final plan simply refer to the <br />document without reference to any specific chapter. <br /> <br />Capital Improvement Program (CIP) <br />The draft document has identified four areas in the city that exhibit storm water runoff <br />problems, and has evaluated each of them as potential capital improvement projects. The <br />assessed priority and estimated cost for each project have also been presented in the <br />document. The draft document has not however, included a schedule for carrying out the <br />proposed capital improvements. Presumably. this decision is due to the cost estimates of <br />the needed capital improvements, relative to the limited amount of funds collected <br />through the Stormwater Fund. <br /> <br />The final document needs further revision to indicate how much of the Stormwater Fund <br />monies will be needed to maintain the city's storm water system, and how much. will be <br />available over the next five years for the unscheduled CIP projects. The final document <br />should include the Maintenance Plan Budget discussed on page 6-4 of the draft, as well as <br />a clearer estimate of when the improvement projects should take place, as a clear <br />incentive to pursue the additional necessary funding in a timely manner. <br /> <br />\\-Ww.metrocvl.lllcil.org <br /> <br />Metro Inlo Line 602~1888 <br /> <br />230 East Fifth Street <br /> <br />St. Paul. Mlnnesola5510t-1626 . (651)602~IOD5 . j.'ax602-1t38 . TI'Y229-3760 <br /> <br />An EqU(I! OppOrJu.lll{lj Emp!()y~r <br />