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MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION November 17, 2006 Joe Bester Lake Owasso Association 460 Horseshoe Drive West Shoreview, Minnesota 55126 Dear Mr. Bester: Thank you for your August 17 letter to the GLWMO Board. I am replying to your letter on behalf of the Grass Lake Water Management Organization Board. Your letter was extremely thorough and included a very clear statement of your concerns. I believe it is advantageous for me to respond to several of your concerns directly. Many of your other lake related management concerns will be dealt with directly by the Owasso Lake Diagnostic Study approved by the Board at their October 26, 2006 meeting. I completely agree with your position that the Board should clearly state the purposes and objectives of the lake study prior to approving the study. Whether or not to clearly state the purpose was never in debate. The only reason for the discussion about the concerns of Board Member Tracy Mogg was to clarify what he was requesting. The discussion-.had already included many of the purposes of the study and that the study was predicated on the "action levels" indicated in the GLWMO Watershed Management Plan. The concerns of Board Member Mogg related to a quality control protocol that was not familiar to the rest of the Board or staff. The Board did conclude that a final approval of the study needed to occur at the October meeting and clearly state the purposes and the objectives of the study. This was provided at the October 26 meeting and the Board took its final action approving the study and the contract with Barr Engineering. The purchase of the sampling equipment needed to collect nutrient and volume input data is critical to the diagnostic study. The equipment is a good investment and will be used in future studies. Based on past analysis of leasing, renting or purchasing this equipment, the purchase is only 30°Io more than renting the equipment for only one year. With purchase, the equipment is available to the organization for future studies. The equipment will be stored at the Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District (RWMWD) and maintained by the monitoring staff along with. other sampling equipment. The RWMWD owns and maintains 15 samplers from the same manufacturer.