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i L -~ ~' L~~ { ~j ~- _T Barr Engineering Company 4700 West 77th Street • Minneapolis, MN 55435-4803 Phone: 612-832-2600 • Fax: 612-832-2601 Minneapolis, MN • Hibbing, MN • Duluth, MN • Ann Arbor, MI • Jefferson City, MO ernrnurn To: Grass Lake Water Management Organization ~`ro: Denny Palmer, Karen Chandler, Hal Runke Subject: Work Plan--GLWMO Water Management Plan Date: September 27, 1999 This work plan describes tasks for preparation of the GLWMO Water Management Plan (WMP). We propose to emphasize the issues we perceive the Board feels most important, and to spend less time on other requirements of the plan. The paragraphs below identify the issues we believe you feel are most important and describe work tasks necessary to prepare the WMP. This work plan is not an outline of the WMP, only of the work. Most plans follow the format inferred by MN Rules 8410: an inventory of resources and related infrastructure; identification of issues or problems; establishment of standards, goals and policies relating to the issues; and description of implementation initiatives and capital improvement schedules. Within this format, the plan must present information regarding precipitation, geology, topography, ditches, wetlands, the hydrologic system, groundwater, soils, land use, parks and recreation, fish and wildlife habitat, unique features, and pollutant sources. Although MN Rules 8410 describes the appropriate content of your WMP, you may vary the format to best meet your needs. This work plan proposes to focus on issues key to your WMO rather than a presumed report format. In this way, the inventories, problem assessments, policies, and implementation plans are built around the key issues. Plan Emphasis On the basis of what we have heard in our discussions at Board meetings, with Managers, and with staff, we believe the key issues involve (1) water quality in wetlands and water bodies, (2) management of surface water flows, and (3) redevelopment issues. The work will place less emphasis on the other items required by MN Rules 8410. Development of a system of accountability and performance evaluation for the WMO and member communities is also desired, but we have assumed it would be listed as a proposed initiative in the implementation section of the plan, to be done after plan approval. We have described the system as a supplemental task, should funding become available and completion of the task accelerated. ®r Tasks The work tasks below build from the key issues, identified above. Task 1.0--Water Body Water Quality and Wetlands. The Board wishes to optimize the use and enjoyment of wetlands and water bodies in the WMO by maintaining or restoring beneficial uses of the water bodies. This task will establish a strategy for setting resource-based goals for inventoried lakes and water bodies, assessing whether the goals are (or can be) achieved, and identifying alternatives or remedies for identified problems. These assessments, described in paragraphs 1.2 and 1.3, will build upon -existing natural resource and water management planning activities undertaken by the cities, and will not duplicate existing work. Table 1 lists the types of information that will be assembled for lakes, wetlands, and their watersheds as part of plan