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City Council Study Session -11/21/05 Minutes - Page 10 Staff was directed to return with a formal request for adoption of the 2006 fee schedule as presented, at the November 28, 2005 regular business meeting, as a Consent Agenda item. 5. Discuss Draft Rules Proposed by the Capitol Region Watershed District City Engineer Deb Bloom and Public Works Director Duane Schwartz provided a detailed analysis or the proposed rules and technical standards to implement goals and policies of the of the Capitol Region Watershed District (CRWD) Watershed Management Plan. Ms. Bloom reviewed the background, watershed definition and management issues and boundaries, their authority and the three districts operated and involved with the City of Roseville. Ms. Bloom noted that the City's Public Works, Environment and Transportation (PWET) Commission had preliminarily reviewed the proposed rules, via a presentation by the CR WD at their October meeting; and she anticipated the PWET would be drafting formal comments at their November 22,2005 meeting to forward to the City Council. These included rate control (peak discharge for new developments); volume controls and pretreatment to remove solids prior to discharge into infiltrating areas; water quality and non-point source pollution reduction; and wetland management related to the Wetland Conservation Act provisions. Ms. Bloom reviewed the purpose of the proposed rules III preserving and protecting remaining wetlands and impacts to those wetlands. Ms. Bloom reviewed those areas of the proposed rules that were more restrictive than those of the Wetlands Conservation Act of State Statute. These included flooding stipulations, with a number of Roseville homes on lakes not in compliance; erosion control; and most importantly, city road project stipulations. Discussion included staffing requirements for enforcement by the CRWD; and current staff practice in addressing problem Draft Rules Proposed by the Capitol Region Watershed District