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Surface Water. The Metropolitan Surface Water Management Act of 1982 required all communities in the seven county metropolitan area to prepare a local surface water management plan to prevent water problems through planning and management. The Act requires the preparation of a water management plan for each watershed unit in the metropolitan area. Watershed districts and water management organizations within the metro area were charged with preparing and implementing these plans. Once the plans were prepared and approved by the Minnesota Water Resources Board, each city within the watershed was to prepare a local plan to bring the management into conformance with the watershed plan. The purposes of these plans is to: 1) Assess existing water quantity and quality problems 2) Assess potential water problems and opportunities for natural resource enhancement in view of projected watershed development 3) Formulate practical strategies to correct existing problems to prevent potential problems and to take advantage of opportunities to enhance water related natural resources. Water Management and Wetlands. The City of Roseville is geographically within the Rice Creek Watershed District, the Grass Lake Water Management Organization, and the Capital Region Watershed District (formally the Central Ramsey Water Management Organization). Each has a management plan. It is necessary for the City's local plan to be in compliance with all three of the water management plans. A resolution adopting the Metropolitan Council's "Interim Strategy to reduce Nonpoint Pollution to all Metropolitan Bodies" was adopted by the City Council on September 11, 1995. The City also has a Surface Water Management Plan, which has been accepted by the Board of Soil & Water Resources, as well as all three water management organizations. It is the intent of the City of Roseville to protect the remaining wetlands and other water bodies to the greatest extent possible and, where feasible, to restore or construct wetlands to increase the amount within the City. Over the years the City has lost many wetland areas due to development. These resources are a valued portion of the City's aesthetics and storm water retention system. In 1991, the State passed a law titled "The Wetland Conservation Act" (WCA). The intent of this act is to assure that there is "no net loss" to the wetlands within the State of Minnesota. As part of this wetland conservation act, the City must follow a series of steps to assure the "no-net-loss" criteria. In addition, the City must implement the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES, 1987) amendments to the Clean Water Act, establishing the NPDES for point source discharges of storm water. In these regulations, construction sites that disturb more than one acre are classified as industrial discharges. The property owner or applicant who is involved with the proposed project applies for the permits Roseville Comprehensive Plan - 2002 Update Executive Summary -Page 12 of 16