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Conservation Districts, and administers the rules for the Wetland Conservation Act and metropolitan <br />area watershed management. <br />The Minnesota Department of Health administers the well abandonment regulations and the Safe <br />Drinking Water Act rules. <br />The Minnesota Environmental Quality Board administers the state's environmental review program, <br />including Environmental Assessment Worksheets (EAW) and Environmental Impact Statements <br />(EIS). <br />The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers administers the Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act permit <br />program, and the Section 404 permit program. <br />The GLWMO does not administer a permit program. Rather, the GLWMO relies on the member <br />cities to maintain regulatory control and responsibility for water resource management related <br />activities in the GLWMO. <br />1.5 Summary of Resource Specific Problems/Issues, Goals, and <br />Potential Solutions <br />The GLWMO manages four major water bodies: Snail Lake, Grass Lake, Lake Wabasso and Lake <br />Owasso. With this plan, the GLWMO establishes a classification system for the lakes and ponds that <br />assigns measurable water quality standards to each category. The GLWMO classification system <br />places the lakes and ponds into one of five categories. A Category I water body has the highest water <br />quality and supports swimming and other direct contact recreational activities, such as water skiing, <br />scuba diving, and snorkeling. Category II water bodies support indirect recreational activities such <br />as boating and fishing. Category III water bodies provide wildlife habitat, aesthetic enjoyment, and <br />possibly warmwater fishing. Summer algal blooms are more common in Category II and Category <br />III water bodies than in Category I water bodies. Water bodies classified as Category IV or Category <br />V are typically water quality ponds used as nutrient and sediment traps. <br />The cities are responsible for managing the other smaller lakes and wetlands in the GLWMO <br />including Shoreview Lake, Lake Emily, Lake Judy, Central Park Pond, Bennett Lake, and Willow <br />Pond. The water quality issues, trends, and future management practices for each water body are <br />summarized in the paragraphs below. <br />Grass Lake WMO Watershed Management Plan 04/25/00 Draft <br />\\NS2\WP\WP\23\62\645\plan\Grass Lake WMO plan.doc Page 1-6 <br />