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~nne~~ta ~cia® ® terse i~ ° cis ~ 1. Masted by Kiley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District Best Western Seville Plaza., 81 ~ 1 Bridge Raad, Bloomington, MN ~rtay arty S rr>ler Tour It was 30 years ago the Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District was formed and you are invited to celebrate. The 1999 MAWD Summer Tour is their birthday celebration! ' Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District serves parts of Eden Prairie, Chanhassen, Bloomington, Minnetonka, Deephaven, Shorewood and Chaska. The Tour will present water issues of an almost fully developed suburban area. A seminar approach will be taken for this tour. Attendees will make stops to learn about projects in-depth. The Tour will showcase current projects, Iook back historically and look forward to the emerging problems of redevelopment. 8:00 Registration at the Best Western Seville Plaza 9:00 Buses depart from Best Western Seville Plaza 9: l~ Protecting and Promoting Water Resources in an Intensively Developing Area -Eden Prairies Purgatory Recreation Areas, Environmental Learning Center, and Transit Hub/New Highway Interchange 11:1 ~ Round Lake Improvements Past and Future -Maintaining awell-loved, highh stressed suburban lake 12:00 BBQ Lunch at Bluff Creek Golf Course 12:45 Protecting the Pristine - a tour of the fragile and hidden Bluff Creek from along the golf course edge 2:45 Developing the Last Fragments of a Suburb -Indian mounds. erosion control of the delicate bluff soils 4:00 Return to Hotel 6:00 Social Hour 7:00 Dinner with Keynote Speaker, Steve Morse, Deputy Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Saturday, June 26, 1999 9:00 Power in Numbers - 1VletroGlS -Randall Johnson, Met Council, Cliff Aichinger, Ramsey-Washingron Metro Watershed, David Windle, City of Roseville, David Claypool, Ramsey County Find out how sharing demographic data will help planners and engineers work smarter, be more efficient and save money. Leading the way is the Metro GIS Project, aninter-agency effort to make disparate databases shareable. Raindrops Keep Falling -Fred Rozumalski, Barr Engineering It helps if raindrops fall into rainwater gardens. They improve water quality and quantity by retaining and infiltrat ing rain water where it falls to the earth in small, planted depressions. 10:00 Break 10:15 Citizen Involvement -Howard Peterson, Manager, Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District. and Michael Boland, President, Citizen's Advisory Council Establish and sustain a Citizen's Advisory Committee to increase District effectiveness. Areas to be discussed include public educarion, project review and violation reporting. Legislative Update - Rav Bohn, Administrator, Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts and Ron Harnack. Executive Director. Board of Water & Soil Resources.