|
<br />
<br />
<br />DRAFT 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update – Local Water Management Plan 18
<br />December 27, 2017 - Project CLL17010
<br />2.4 Surface Water Resources
<br />Lakes, wetlands, judicial and county ditches dominate the landscape of the City of Lino Lakes, open water makes up 14% of the City’s land, prominently represented by the Chain of Lakes. The surface water resources are shown in
<br />Appendix A, Figure 6. These natural features play an extensive role in the way the community has developed and will develop in the future. Two watershed districts cover the City of Lino Lakes; Rice Creek Watershed District,
<br />which covers most of Lino Lakes, and Vadnais Lake Area Watershed Management Organization in the southeast corner.
<br />Public Waters
<br />The City contains all or part of fifteen lakes. Of the City’s lakes, nine of them (Baldwin, Centerville, George Watch, Marshan, Peltier, Reshanau, Rice, Sherman, and Ward) are located within or abutting the Chain of Lakes Regional
<br />Park. The City lakes generally fall into three shoreland management categories: Natural Environment, Recreational and General Development. The Natural Environment lakes are primarily located in the Chain of Lakes area and
<br />include Peltier, George Watch, Marshan, Rice, Ward, Sherman, Cedar, Amelia, Rondeau and Wilkinson. Recreational lakes include Otter, Centerville, Reshanau, and Baldwin. Bald Eagle Lake is a General Development Lake. They are
<br />used for a variety of aquatic recreational uses such as swimming, boating, fishing and water skiing. Centerville, Bald Eagle, Peltier and Reshanau Lakes are considered game fishing lakes. The details of each lake are presented in
<br />Section 2.3 and Appendix B.
<br />Creeks
<br />The City’s river and stream resources are characterized by three major stream systems: Rice Creek, and two of its tributaries, Hardwood Creek and Clearwater Creek. A network of ditches and storm sewer drain to these streams; the
<br />ditch and storm sewer system is discussed in Section 2.4. Rice Creek, Hardwood Creek and Clearwater Creek join at Peltier Lake with a combined drainage area of 70 square miles (44,800 acres). Hardwood Creek, with a total
<br />drainage area of 28 square miles, originates in Washington County’s Rice Lake at a normal lake elevation of 920 feet and flows to Peltier Lake at an approximate elevation of 884 feet. Clearwater Creek originates in White Bear Lake
<br />and flows into Bald Eagle Lake, which has a normal elevation of about 884 feet. From there, it proceeds to Centerville Lake and then to Peltier Lake.
<br />Two creek reaches are listed in the 2014 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency 303(d) list of impaired waters. The reach of Clearwater Creek between Bald Eagle Lake and Peltier Lake was listed in 2002 for fish bioassessments, and in
<br />2006 for aquatic macroinvertebrate assessments. A TMDL for these assessments will be conducted during 2013-2016 to determine the stressors for these impairments. The reach of Hardwood Creek between Hwy 61 and Peltier
<br />Lake was listed in 2002 for fish bioassessments. Based on a TMDL started in 2003, this listing was updated as a dissolved oxygen stressor on aquatic life in 2004.
<br />Wetlands
<br />Wetland inventories have been completed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as published on the National Wetland Inventory Maps, and by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, as published in their Protected Waters
<br />Inventory. These wetland inventories will be utilized to assist in determining if a wetland is present on a given parcel of property within the City.
<br />A number of comprehensive wetland studies have been conducted to guide the management of wetlands and their benefits within Lino Lakes. The two key studies are the Lino Lakes Resource Management Plan (RMP, 2008) and the
<br />draft Lino Lakes Special Area Management Plan (SAMP, 2010). These two studies provide the foundation for the management of wetlands, surface water, floodplains, and greenway resources within the City of Lino Lakes. The
<br />SAMP and RMP establish Resource Management Units and standards to support the wetland resources of the City under future development in a manner that integrates with floodplain management, stormwater management, and
<br />greenway management.
<br />2.5 Water Quality Data and Impairments
<br />Water quality data for the City has been obtained from the Minnesota Pollution Control agency (MPCA) Environmental Data Access site. This database is utilized by the participating agencies to compile water quality testing data
<br />and is almost entirely used for the storage of water quality parameters. Many waterbodies in Lino Lakes are currently identified on the state List of Impaired Waters (Appendix A, Figure 7), also known as the 303(d) List from the
<br />applicable section of the Federal Clean Water Act, these waters are ones that do not currently meet their designated use due to the impact of a particular pollutant or stressor. If monitoring and assessment indicate that a waterbody is
<br />impaired by one or more pollutants, it is placed on this list. In Lino Lakes, these impairments for excess nutrients (total phosphorus), mercury, dissolved oxygen, and bacteria are elaborated in the Hardwood Creek Impaired Biota
<br />(Fish) and Dissolved Oxygen TMDL (2009), Bald Eagle Lake Nutrient TMDL (2012), Lino Lakes Chain of Lakes Nutrient TMDL (2013), Peltier Lake and Centerville Lake TMDL (2013), Vadnais Lake Area WMO Total Maximum
<br />Daily Load and Protection Study (2014), and the Upper Mississippi River Bacteria TMDL Study and Protection Plan (2016).
<br />2.6 Stormwater Management System
<br />Hydrologic boundaries do not stop at the municipal borders and orderly coordination between related municipalities is addressed in the Lino Lakes Resource Management Plan (RMP). Hydrologic boundary based, Resource
<br />Management Units (RMU) identified in the RMP are the basis for neighbor community coordination of shared water resources. The hydrologic modeling encompasses true watershed catchments even where the boundaries are
|