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I. INTRODUCTION In response to neighborhood and city concerns regarding the management of Silver View Pond (Mounds View Wetland 893), the City of Mounds View commissioned the preparation of this study and management plan. In order to develop the appropriate scope for the management plan, a broad proposal for a study of a number of potential management objectives was prepared and presented to the Mounds View Parks and Recreation Commission and interested citizens. Four objectives were considered; 1) improved water quality, 2) wildlife habitat enhancement, 3) creation of a viable fishery, and 4) improved aesthetics. Based on the input received at this meeting, the Mounds View Park and Recreation Commission recommended and the City Council commissioned the development of a management plan which focused.on water quality and wildlife habitat value. II. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BASIN Silver View Pond is located approximately 1/4 mile south of Trunk Highway 10, between Long Lake Road and Siler Lake Road (Figure 1). The pond is 11.39 acres in size (excluding contiguous wetland) and has an average depth of about 4.0 feet; the distribution of depths within the basin is shown �:- in Figure 2. The normal surface elevation of the pond is 893.0 and is controlled by an outlet structure on the east end adjacent to Long Lake Road. Water discharging from the pond outlet flows about 1 mile to Rice Creek. The pond was created by excavation in 1982 to provide stormwater storage for developments proposed within its drainage area. The pond was designed to have three distinct arms or basins with narrow connections between each to retard the movement of sediment and nutrients toward the outlet. approximately 9.34 acres (82 percent) of the pond was originally wetland. The pond's dominant bottom substrate is sand with a thin layer of peat or muck. Several small areas of the pond are underlaid by deep peat or muck deposits which appear to be remnants of the original wetland soils. III. DRAINAGE AREA CHARACTERISTICS At the time that Silver View Pond was designed in 1982, its drainage area was estimated at 203 acres and included about 57 acres north of County Road I (from Revised Hydraulic Calculations, Oak Lake Park Ponding Area, Mounds View Minnesota; Sunde Engineering, Inc., March 31, 1982). Since that time the drainage area for the pond has been redefined to total about 145.7 acres (from _Mounds View t_ Minnesota Storm Water Drainage Analysis; Comstock and Davis, Inc., January 4, 1985). Based on the more recent figures and our field review of the drainage area, we have concluded that 70