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DATE: July 28 , 1993 <br /> FROM: Barbara Haake, Resident of Ramsey County <br /> 3024 County Road I ; Mounds View, MN 55112 , <br /> RE : Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) and Locke Lake located <br /> in the City of Fridley, Anoka County, Minnesota <br /> FRIDLEY ' S LOCKE LAKE IMPROVEMENTS WILL AFFECT PROPERTY TAX PAYERS <br /> IN FOUR COUNTIES <br /> • <br /> The existence of Locke_ Lake is not a -natural- phenomemon but to many- - - <br /> it seems to have "always been there" . Locke Lake is a part of Rice <br /> Creek and is located approximately two thousand feet east of the area <br /> where Rice Creek meets the Mississippi River in Fridley. <br /> Rice Creek is in a 201 square mile watershed which comprises the Rice <br /> Creek Watershed District (RCWD) and receives drainage from Washington, <br /> Ramsey , Hennepin and Anoka counties. It meanders through 29 cities <br /> and townships. Rice Creek starts in Clear Lake and flows approxiately <br /> 28 miles before it enters the Mississippi River one mile north of <br /> Interstate 694 . <br /> A dam was constructed on Rice Creek just 1, 300 feet from its mouth to <br /> the Mississippi in the 1870' s; its existence was again referred to in <br /> 1922 , however maps produced in 1936 no longer showed the dam. The <br /> present dam was constructed as an amenity to residential development <br /> in 1955 by a residential contractor, Mr . Otto Ostman, and turned over <br /> to the City of Fridley to own, maintain and regulate in 1956 . The DNR <br /> issued a permit to Fridley in February, 1955 for construction of the <br /> dam "at the upstream end of an existing double box culvert. " <br /> Since then , the dam has deteriorated and the City of Fridley has <br /> authorized the replacement of Locke Lake Dam. Fridley has requested <br /> that the RCWD represent the City as an agent for the design and <br /> construction of the dam. <br /> RCWD' s mission and responsibility is to preserve and maintain the <br /> entire Rice Creek "system" . RCWD has the taxing authority to carry <br /> out this mission for the good of all of the counties, cities and <br /> citizens living within its 201 square mile boundaries. <br /> The City of Fridley has petitioned the RCWD tot <br /> . Remove the existing dam on Rice Creek near its intersection with <br /> East River Road and the construction of a new dam at this <br /> location . <br /> . Remove the sediment from Locke Lake to a minimum level of six <br /> feet . <br /> . Construct a sediment retaining basin upstream from Locke Lake. <br /> Fridley has petitioned because it states : <br /> . The dam was not adequately constructed and is in a state of <br /> disrepair. <br /> Dad 29172 178E ET9 :Ol 892171782219 'Gil addd9S 20:LI 176, 90 Ndf <br />