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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DATE: 7/13/87 ITEM NO.: C_ // Department Approval: Manager Reviewed: Agenda Section: - --'rrj '�;C_ Reports and recommendations Item Description: Review of Central Ramsey WMO Management Plan The City of Roseville as well as the cities of Maplewood, Falcon Heights, and St. Paul approximately two years ago formed a storm water management organization known as the Central Ramsey WMO. In the City of Roseville, this organization is involved with the southeastern corner of the city. As part of state law, it is necessary for these WMOs to prepare a management plan and submit it for review to the various local and state organizations. The first step in this process is to submit it to the member cities. That plan has now been submitted to Roseville and is ready for our comments. Please note that we do not have approval or disapproval power in this matter, but our comments are very important. In order to assist the council in understanding the plan, several key pages have been excerpted and attached in an accompanying memo to the council. The thrust of the plan is that the board does not plan to be a permit - issuing agency or a hands -on agency that reviews various land uses or developments. It rather would function as an overview agency that would basically prepare the policies and then be available to assist in their implementation as required. As part of such a role, it is not anticipated that the WMO would be levying taxes or undertaking improvement projects which would have to be paid for by the members. Rather, it is anticipated that each city would undertake its own Projects. The primary modification of this approach is that upstream communities would participate in downstream improvements to a degree that the upstream communities impact said downstream communities. This latter approach becomes very important in that it is assumed that the City of St. Paul will handle the expenses for the combined sewer separation program which will cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars over the next ten years. The plan does identify some inter -city capacity problems that affect the City of Roseville. These include: 1. The need to expand the Godfried Pit holding area near Larpenteur and Hamline. 2. The provision of either extensive ponding or a revision to the outlet or pipe capacity of city flows near Victoria and Larpenteur Avenue. 3. The need to correct the existing lack of adequate pipe capacity or ponding to drain the Lake McCarrons area.