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2660 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE TELEPHONE 684 -3371 O S e V I I I 0 MINNESOTA 55113 July 2, 1982 Joseph G. Chlebeck City of Little Canada 515 East Little Canada Road Little Canada, Minnesota 55117 Dear Mr. Chlebeck: The Minnesota Legislature, during this last session, passed a new law known as the LEVI bill. That bill established that all areas of the metropolitan region must be covered by either a watershed board or a joint- powers agreement among the government agencies by December 31, 1983. If this were not done, the county automatically becomes the Watershed Management Organization (WMO). One of the areas in the metropolitan region not covered by a water- shed is in southwestern Ramsey County, north of the Mississippi River. Since your area of responsibility covers at least a portion of this area, you are being invited to send a representative to a meeting to be held at the Roseville city hall at 9:00 a.m., Thurs- day, July 8, 1982. The address is 2660 Civic Center Drive and is located at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and West County Road C. It would be greatly appreciated if you would attend or have a re- presentative at the meeting. If this is not possible, please call me to provide your respective of the matter and any information you may have on the subject. Decisions need to be made in the near future concerning this situa- tion and it would seem that having the staff of the various agen- cies discuss the matter and have a uniform recommendation would be desirable. A copy of the Metropolitan Council draft of a policy plan indicating their proposal for our area involved, is included for your information. Please note that their approach would result in the Vadnais area being combined with Minneapolis and St. Paul for a single large area. Also, included, is a summation of the LEVI bill prepared by the Metropolitan Council staff earlier this year. It will also, hopefully, be useful in aiding you to understand the bill and its potential impact upon you. It would appear that there are no options of choice as to whether to establish a WMO. There are, however, choices which the organizations involved can make. Among these are the following: (1) What should be the boundary divisions of this sub - watershed? Should there be a single large watershed or should the watershed be divided into smaller, more natural flow areas?