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sF <br />Minnesota <br />Board of <br />Water &Soil <br />Resources <br />r�M <br />September 6, 2011 <br />Camillla Correll, Project Manager <br />Emmons & Olivier Resources, Inc. <br />651 Hale Ave North <br />Oakdale, MN 55128 <br />RE: 60 -day review of Grass Lake Watershed Management Organization 2011 Plan <br />Dear Ms. Correll, <br />Board of Water and Soil Resources staff have completed the 60 -day review of the Grass Lake Watershed <br />Management Organization Watershed Management Plan and have the following comments. <br />1.0 Executive Summary <br />• Page 4: include a reference to the GLWMO website. <br />• Page 9, Stormwater Management; and page 128, 6.3.3 Stormwater Management: for <br />consistency with 5.2.4, revise the last sentence to be definitive that the permitting authority will <br />remain (rather than 'would like') with member communities and the WMO has provided <br />standards within the plan. <br />• Page 10, GLWMO Standards and Criteria: clarify if this plan addresses the need for more <br />protective standards or if it simply identifies the need. <br />• Page 11, Financing: VLAWMO does not have taxing authority. <br />3.0 Land and Water Resource Inventory <br />• Page 13, 4th paragraph and Regulatory and Non - regulatory Framework pages 86 and page 89: <br />the Ramsey County Groundwater Protection Plan referenced was drafted in 2009, but has not <br />been approved by BWSR or adopted by Ramsey County. Suggest labeling it as a draft. <br />4.0 Regulatory and Non - regulatory Framework <br />• Pages 77 -79: while inclusion of purposes and general goals from earlier plans provides context, <br />it also creates confusion with what the current purposes of are. We suggest revising the text to <br />include only current priorities. <br />• Page 82: suggest removing the summary of 2009 WCA changes; additional changes have been <br />put in to place since 2009 and it is likely more changes will be made over the life of this plan. <br />5.0 Management Standards <br />• Page 91, first paragraph: this section suggests the previous plan was not effective, but does not <br />provide an assessment of what was achieved or analysis of why the plan was not effective nor <br />Bernidi Brainerd <br />701 Minnesota Ave., <br />1601 Minnesota <br />Suite 234 <br />Drive <br />Bemidji, MN 56601 <br />Brainerd, MN 56401 <br />(218) 333 -8024 <br />(218) 828 -2383 <br />DN�NLl1 <br />394 South Lake Ave., <br />Room 403 <br />Duluth, MN 55802 <br />(218) 723 -4752 <br />feryUs Falls <br />1004 Frontier Driv e <br />Fergus Falls, MN <br />56537 -2505 <br />(218) 736 -5445 <br />Central O#ce IMetro Ogee 520 Lafayette Road North <br />Marshall <br />Mankato <br />Ivew Ulm <br />lzoehester <br />1400 East Lyon St., <br />1160 Victory Drive S., <br />261 Highway 15 <br />2300 Silver <br />Box 267 <br />Suite 5 <br />South <br />Creek Rd N.E. <br />Marshall, MN 56258 <br />Mankato, MN 56001 -5358 <br />New Ulm, MN 56073 <br />Rochester, MN 55906 <br />(507) 537 -6060 <br />(507) 389 -1967 <br />(507) 359 -6074 <br />(507) 206 -2889 <br />Saint Paul, MN 55155 <br />Phone: (651) 296 -3767 Fax: (651) <br />297 -5615 <br />www.bwsr.state.run.us TTY (800) 627 -3529 An equal opportunity employer <br />