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Question #8. Yes, there is. It could be the Ramsey Conservation District or a metro groundwater <br />multifunctional task force as described in the plan or created among all primary metro acquifer /drinking <br />water stakeholders. <br />Question #9. I think we have authority, but without the ability to secure Legacy grants for groundwater <br />protection in the GLWMO, our authority is moot. <br />Question #10. More likely with an adopted plan. <br />Question #11. I think step 1 is to have a county- adopted groundwater protection plan -THEN the <br />watersheds could work together to form a stakeholder group around the collective needs that emerge <br />as implementation starts taking shape. We've had a lot of meetings already. <br />Question #12. Shoreline restoration is a cooperative opportunity between RCD and the watersheds. It <br />makes more sense to have one agency be the general "go to for all of the county watershed <br />organizations. Evidence: their current willingness to pay RCD to do this. RCD has also been successful in <br />bringing state and private funding to best practices for water quality in Ramsey County. Landowner <br />assistance clearly a soil water core competency. Public education more can be done to centralize <br />these efforts, although Hamlin Univ. does have resources in place for the watersheds to share. The RCD <br />has no budget or expertise for mass efforts in this area, but the one on one landowner relationships and <br />small workshops RCD does are valuable. Other Wetland protection funding is unique to MN soil and <br />water districts and it is important. RCD participates in these cases. GLWMO has NO staff and no taxing <br />authority, so it has been helpful this year to have the RCD provide administrative support for our <br />organization. Neither Shoreview nor Roseville were able to continue to support this as they had in the <br />past. Consequently GLWMO's ability to meet BWSR requirements in 2008 2009 was seriously flawed. <br />Question #13. No <br />Question #14. See #12 <br />Question #15. Groundwater protection and landscape restoration projects. (Some BWSR funds would <br />not be available to Ramsey County without RCD.) <br />