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City of Mounds View Page 49 Local Surface Water Management Plan 435-08-135 8.5 POSSIBLE FUTURE IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES These activities generally include coordination efforts other agencies or potential future activities that have yet to be finalized. These future implementation activities identified below are relevant to overall surface water management within the City and should be considered in future Capital Improvement Plan discussions. 8.5.1 FUTURE TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD (TMDL)STUDIES As discussed in Section 6.4, there is one waterbody within the City of Mounds View currently identified on the state list of Impaired Waters: Rice Creek (between an unnamed lake and Long Lake). In addition, three waterbodies that are outside of the City but receive discharge from the City are also on the state list of Impaired Waters: Long Lake, a downstream stretch of Rice Creek, and the Mississippi River. The City recognizes that the responsibility for completion and implementation of the TMDL studies lies with the primary stakeholders contributing to the impairment. The City intends to cooperate with the RCWD and other agencies in the development of the TMDL studies, acknowledging that these outside agencies will take the lead on these studies. It is the intention of the City to implement the items/actions identified in future TMDL Implementation Plans, funding the implementation items/actions as necessary. 8.5.2 COORDINATE WITH RCWD TO ADDRESS DEGRADED WATER QUALITY IN SPRING LAKE The RCWD is in the process of finalizing the Management Action Plan (MAP) for Spring Lake as Phase II of the Southwest Urban Lakes Study. With the completion of the MAP, the City will likely incorporate specific implementation recommendations (either watershed management or in-lake management recommendations) where the City is identified as a contributing partner to address the degraded water quality in Spring Lake. Mounds View is interested in partnering with the RCWD to complete both in-lake vegetation management and water quality retrofit projects aimed at improving the lake water quality, however, no specific activities are identified in the City’s list of system improvement activities (Table 8.3). The RCWD identifies specific programs on their website (www.ricecreek.org) that are available to provide funding assistance to Mounds View for stormwater management improvements, including: RCWD Urban Stormwater Remediation Cost-Share Program RCWD BMP Cost-Share Program 8.5.3 URBAN WATER QUALITY RETROFIT PROJECTS The City will look for opportunities in developed areas to install retrofit water quality improvement BMPs to improve the overall water quality in the Mounds View. The City will consider working with private property owners to implement improvement projects, using the City’s Stormwater Infiltration Program as a model to accomplish these retrofit improvements.The RCWD identifies specific programs on their website (www.ricecreek.org) that could be applied when partnering with Mounds View, including: RCWD – Urban Stormwater Remediation Cost-Share Program RCWD – BMP Cost-Share Program 8.6 POTENTIAL FUNDING Implementation of the proposed studies, programs, and improvements identified in this plan will affect City finances. A review of the City’s ability to fund these studies, programs, and