Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watershed Management Commissions

1. Shingle Creek andWest Mississippi Watershed Management Commissions Third Generation Watershed Management Plan

2. Meeting Purpose • Provide an overviewof the Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watershed Management Commissions and their work • Get your inputon water resources priorities for the coming 10 years

3. Agenda • What is a watershedand what is a watershed management commission? • What is a watershed management plan and how does it relate to what cities do? • What have the Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watershed Management Commissions accomplished in the past ten years? • What are the issuesidentified for next ten years, and how do the Commissions plan to address them?

4. What is a Watershed?

5. Why Manage Water Resources? • 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act) was intended: • “… to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.”

6. Surface Water Management Act 1982(Metro Water Planning Law)

7. Metro Area Watersheds

8. Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watersheds West Mississippi Shingle Creek

9. Shingle Creek and West Mississippi Watershed Management Commissions

10. Watershed Roles and Responsibilities

11. Third Generation Watershed Management Plan

12. Watershed Management Plans

13. Relationship with City Planning

14. 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

15. Overview of Past 10 Years: Successes

16. Overview of Past 10 Years: Successes

17. Problems and Issues

18. Maintaining & Improving Water Resources

19. Financial Stability

20. Regulations, Rules, and Standards

21. Evaluation and Communication

22. PreliminaryGoals

23. Water Quantity Goals • Continue to prevent flooding • Increase summer flows in Shingle and Bass Creeks Shingle Creek in Brooklyn Park

24. Implementation Actions

25. Water Quality Goals • Improve water quality to meet state standards in these lakes: • Schmidt • Bass • Eagle • Crystal • Middle Twin • Ryan Meadow Lake, New Hope

26. Implementation Actions

27. 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

28. Implementation

29. 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

30. 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

31. Continue the Monitoring Program Lake water quality Stream flow and quality Aquatic vegetation Fish and bug monitoring Volunteer monitoring

32. Continue Education and Outreach Programming Sponsor volunteer events Participate in education fairs Provide classroom education

33. 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

34. Implementation

35. Implementation

36. Some Questions • What do you think are the most important issues regarding our lakes and streams? • Are there some additional things we could consider doing to help our water resources? • What’s the best way to get information about water resources issues to residents and to commercial properties? • How would you persuade someone to consider doing something new, such as a rain garden?

37. Thank You!