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1 Boar members recognized the serious need to block leakage and agreed with Chair Ferrington of 2 the need to place another plate on the lake -side and secure it laterally to the wing walls. 3 4 Member Eckman moved, and Member Manzara seconded approval of Chair Ferrington's 5 October 4, 2010 letter response to Craig Wills, regarding DNR Permit Request 1971 -1269 6 (Request for repair of outlet to Wabasso Lake) as the opinion of the Board of the GLWMO, with 7 Chair Ferrington serving as the authorized representative of the GLWMO. 8 9 Chair Ferrington moved, and Member Von De Linde seconded a friendly amendment to 10 substitute "the GLWMO Board," and "the Board" for all references to "1," in the letter as 11 applicable; and authorizing Chair Ferrington to make those modifications and submit the letter as 12 a PDF file by Friday, October 29, 2010 on the Board's letterhead. 13 14 Ayes: 5 15 Nays: 0 16 Motion carried. 17 18 Request for Board review of Draft Groundwater Management Plan 19 Mr. Petersen reviewed the sixteen (16) initiatives of the revised Ramsey County Groundwater 20 Protection Plan 2009, and while not having those questions available for tonight's meeting, 21 offered to e-mail copies to individual board members for their input on those initiatives. Mr. 22 Petersen noted that board members may have contributed to the original plan as stakeholders. 23 The County is now seeking input on whether they want participate in the revision of the plan or 24 not, as a party in the Joint Powers Agreement. 25 26 Discussion included the need to have the plan available on the website; background on the 27 County's process for review and comment, and the hold put on the plan by the County Manager 28 for further review to determine optional rather than mandatory participation. The Board 29 discussed anticipated future and major changes in water management and the need for an up -to- 30 date Groundwater Plan to acquire Clean Water Legacy Grant funding. Other topics briefly 31 mentioned included: water management jurisdiction of individual cities; need for definition of 32 funding for groundwater management; legislative changes pending regarding funding 33 mechanisms; inclusion of the possibility of a County Groundwater Plan as part of the GLWMO 34 Third Generation Plan RFP; and use by Ramsey County of this survey input to determine 35 whether to proceed with a Plan or not. 36 37 Member Manzara opined that, as a GLWMO Board member, she was supportive of a Ramsey 38 County Groundwater Management Plan. 39 40 Chair Ferrington opined that the agreement seemed conservative and underfunded. He stated that 41 supported the plan in concept and the initiatives outlined in the most current version. However, 42 he expressed hesitation with mechanisms for funding and stated in appeared that all necessary 43 coordination was not yet not fully developed. In some cases, the draft report simply highlighted 44 the funding mechanism as "to be determined. The Chair opined that it still needed to be 45 determined if a county -by- county approach or a regional approach would be a more feasible and 46 reasonable way to managem groundwater resources. 13