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Table 2.3 - MnDNR Public Waters List I IT � 1 TV T . Lakes Spring Lake 2-71P SL-1 Wetlands Silver View Pond 62-60W EW-4 Unnamed Wetland 62-66W RC-3 Unnamed Wetland 62-168W AA-1 Unnamed Wetland 62-17OW EW-3 Unnamed Wetland 62-171W EW-7 Unnamed Wetland 62-173W EW-9 Unnamed Wetland 62-258W EW-1 Creeks Rice Creek -- -- Source: Minnesota DNR PWI Maps and Lists Mississippi River All of Mounds View's surface runoff reaches the Mississippi River via Rice Creek. The Mississippi River and its tributaries form the largest river system in North America, draining about 40 percent of the continental United States. Mounds View is located in the Middle Mississippi River Basin (upstream of Saint Anthony Falls) of the Upper Mississippi River (upstream of St. Louis, MO). According to the US Geological Survey, at gauging station Number 05288500, located at 95th Street in Coon Rapids, the normal elevation of the river is approximately 804.5 feet. The MnDNR classifies the Mississippi River as a warm water game fish resource. It is a MnDNR Protectec Watercourse and has a varying ordinary high water elevation that generally coincides with the top of the riverbank. Public Watercourses There are two public watercourses identified in Mounds View: Rice Creek and Anoka/Ramsey Judicial Ditch 1. Although not identified by the MnDNR as a public water, Spring Creek is another valuable watercourse within the City. There is also a historic unnamed ditch in the south-central portion of the City (within the Edgewood Drainage District) that has since been primarily converted to storm sewer. Rice Creek, which runs through the southeast portion of the City, is a relatively large watercourse with a drainage area of approximately 200 square miles. All of the 2,630 acres of the City of Mounds View drain to Rice Creek via various discharge points and conveyance routes through the City. According to a recent survey by MnDNR Fisheries, Rice Creek has two different types of fisheries. From its confluence with the Mississippi River up to the Locke Lake dam, the game fish species composition is similar to that found in the Mississippi River (catfish, smallmouth bass, walleye and northern). Above Locke Lake and upstream to where Rice Creek crosses into the City of Mounds View, game fish are limited to fingerling size walleye. City of Mounds View 10 Local Surface Water Management Plan } } Stantec Project No. 193804166