VLAWMO Annual Financial Report 2007

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VLAWMO Annual Report - 2007 7 parcels in Anoka County affected, the rest paid the utility fee. The SSU was considered successful in that 86% of the budget was collected directly, the database functioned well, and only those property owners within VLAWMO were paying for watershed support. However, receiving a new bill was confusing for residents of the watershed and processing the utility (billing, receiving and entering payments, etc.) as well as answering questions consumed substantial staff time for more than two montl s. Efficiencies will need to be pursued for the 2009 billing cycle. SUPPORT ONGOING VLAWMO PROGRAMS Wetland Conservation Act Administration VLAWMO continues to provide administrative service for the Wetland Conservation Act for the all area within the watershed. 2007 WCA statistics are included in this report. Water Quality Monitoring Program The Citizen's Lake Monitoring Program has now completed its 11 to year with the new Program Coordinator taking over major responsibility. Many of our volunteers have been faithfully providing samples and data since the beginning of the program. VLAWMO appreciates the work of its dedicated volunteers. Many programs would not be possible without them. No volunteer was found or Amelia Lake and staff has done the sampling on this resource in 2007. Analysis will be available in the 2007 VLAWMO Water Quality Monitoring Report and on the VLAWMO website. Expansion of Water Quality Monitoring. Lambert Creek monitoring With the assistance of the Dave Schuler, Chief Engineer at SPRWS, Kristine Lampert, VLAWMO Program Coordinator and the VLAWMO intern, Jacob Ruzsa and a SPRWS intern Lambert Creek was sampled during the summer of 2007. Those results are also available at the end of this report. BATHTUB WATER QUALITY MODEL The results have also been used in a basic computer model of watershed that can anticipate water quality responses to rain events. This basic model was used by Della Young, HDR Eng. as she developed and calibrated the BATHTUB model of the watershed. The model has been distributed to several of the member communities and will be used in future studies. Lake Level monitoring Pleasant Lake level is monitored by SPRWS and the water level in Birch Lake, White Bear has been tracked by Ramsey County in the past. VLAWMO coordinated with the MN Department of Natural Resources to add four lakes to the Lake Level monitoring program: Gilfillan Lake (62-27P), Birch Lake (62-24P), Goose Lake (62-34P) and Gem Lake (62-37P). VLAWMO has agreed to provide annual calibration assistance -8-