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Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watershed Management Commissions. CAC Meeting #3 July 30, 2012. Goals for Tonight’s Meeting. Hear and discuss member city issues and suggestions Answer questions Get input on your priorities. Member Cities. Brooklyn Center (WM) Brooklyn Park (WM)
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Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watershed Management Commissions CAC Meeting #3 July 30, 2012
Goals for Tonight’s Meeting • Hear and discuss member city issues and suggestions • Answer questions • Get input on your priorities
Member Cities • Brooklyn Center (WM) • Brooklyn Park (WM) • Crystal • Maple Grove (WM) • Minneapolis • New Hope • Osseo (WM) • Plymouth • Robbinsdale • Champlin (WM only)
Management Planning • First Generation Plan, 1990-2002: focus on water quantity, preventing flooding • Second Generation Plan, 2003-2012: focus on water quality, education and outreach • Third Generation Plan, 2013-2022: focus on implementation and achieving outcomes
Overview of Past 10 Years: Areas Falling Short • Minimal wetland management efforts beyond statutory requirements • Minimal groundwater management • Need to increase awareness by elected officials, advisory commission members • Sustained citizen participation • Reliance on volunteers to obtain lake water quality data
Survey Results 10 11 3 7 9 8 2 1 5 4 6
Watershed Consolidation • Historical basis for individual Commissions • Level of development • Difference in water resources • Funding inequities if combined • Changes since Second Generation Plan • Distribution of tax capacity • Increased activity in West Mississippi • Now more equitable • County interest in consolidating WMOs
Water Quantity Goals • Continue to prevent flooding • Increase summer flows in Shingle and Bass Creeks Shingle Creek in Brooklyn Park
Increased Infiltration Requirement • Currently must infiltrate ½ inch of runoff within 48 hours • Proposed new standard is one inch of runoff in 48 hours • Exceptions for clay soils, areas with soil contamination, or wellhead protection areas Bioinfiltration swale, Brooklyn Center
Proposed New Infiltration Credit • Get credit towards infiltration requirement • Provide soil management in turfed areas on site • Decompact soil to 12” in depth • Amend top 8” with compost
Water Quality Goals • Improve water quality to meet state standards in these lakes: • Schmidt • Bass • Eagle • Crystal • Middle Twin • Ryan Meadow Lake, New Hope
Water Quality Goals • Improve water clarity in other lakes by 10% • Complete stream improvements on 30% of the length of Shingle Creek Shingle Creek, Brooklyn Park
Groundwater and Wetlands Goals • Increase infiltration to restore groundwater • Protect existing wetlands • Improve functions and values of wetlands where possible Cherokee Drive wetland, Brooklyn Park
Operations and Programming Goals • Operate within sustainable funding level • Continue to share in the cost of implementation projects • Continue to seek out grants and other funding sources • Operate a public education and outreach program • Operate a monitoring program and publish an annual Water Quality Report
Operations and Programming Goals • Maintain updated hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality models • Maintain and update development rules and standards • Serve as a technical resource for cities • Continue research projects • Coordinate water management between cities
Monitoring Sites SC-3 Shingle Creek at Brooklyn Blvd Sampled 2007 – Present SC-2 Sampled 1996-2006 Approx. 11,000 acres drainage USGS Station Shingle Creek at Queen Ave Sampled 1996 – Present SC-0 Shingle Creek at 45th Ave Sampled 2001 – Present Approx. 26,000 acre drainage
Lake Monitoring • Volunteer monitoring through Citizen Assisted Lake Monitoring Program • Proposed in Third Generation Plan: • More intensive water quality monitoring • Aquatic vegetation surveys • Sediment coring Schmidt Lake, Plymouth
Wetland Monitoring • Wetland Health Evaluation Program • Adult volunteers monitor vegetation and macroinvertebrates (bugs) in wetlands
Macroinvertebrate/Fish Monitoring • Commission monitors fish/bugs every 5 years • River Watch Volunteer Monitoring • High school students • 3 locations on Shingle Creek • 1 location on Mattson Brook
Education and Outreach Programming • Sponsor volunteer events • Participate in education fairs • Provide classroom education