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data also showed that the rise in lake levels is consistent with what we would expect from the rainfall <br />received over the last several years. Pictures and data from residents on the lake were used to establish <br />an approximate record of water levels over a period of time when there was not a water level gauge <br />installed in the lake. There is now a gauge in the lake and the level is being recorded on a weekly basis <br />and posted on the City’s website. <br />Since that meeting, the City requested that the Watershed District survey the low homes on Twin Lake <br />to verify the estimated elevation information we obtained through the Lidar system. That survey <br />showed that the lowest home on Twin Lake has a low entry of 878.0 feet. The overflow of the Twin <br />Lake system is located at 876.6. As of Monday, May 13th, the water surface elevation of Twin Lake is <br />874.70 feet. This means that the water from Twin Lake will overflow to the MnDOT pond system and <br />into the downstream Gervais Creek system before it would reach the low home on Twin Lake. <br />For this meeting, City staff has requested the Watershed District present to the City Council on the <br />status of information regarding the high water on Twin Lake and to answer any questions the Council <br />may have. <br />City staff has been made aware of numerous trees that have died due to the high water. The task of <br />removing the trees and hauling the brush and wood out is arduous so the City has offered to help <br />residents move the brush from the lake side of their property to the street side of the property to help <br />facilitate the full removal of the material. <br />The Metropolitan Council had a maintenance employee put some plugs in the holes in the manhole <br />cover that is now under water to try and limit as much water as possible from entering the sanitary <br />sewer system. All of the Little Canada manhole covers are solid covers with no pick holes in them. <br />There is likely still water getting into each system through the structures below the manhole covers but <br />we are trying to limit as much as possible.