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A <br />WSB <br />&4ssocmres, i.e. Infrastructure x Engineering . Planning . Construction 701 Xenia Avenue South <br />Suite 300 <br />Minneapolis, MN 55416 <br />Tel: 763 541-4800 <br />Fax: 763 541-1700 <br />December 4, 2007 <br />The Honorable Mayor and City Council and Staff <br />City of St. Anthony Village <br />3301 Silver Lake Road NB <br />St. Anthony, MN 55418 <br />Re: Mississippi Watershed Management Organization Funding Agreement <br />For St. Anthony Water Reuse Project <br />WSB Project No. 1745-02 <br />Dear Honorable Mayor, City Council and Staff: <br />The City of St. Anthony has applied for and received a $1,200,000 grant from the Mississippi <br />Watershed Management Organization to construct a water reuse facility at the St. Anthony City <br />Hall location. The City applied for this grant as part of the implementation of the City's 2007 goals <br />to evaluate opportunities the City had to reduce or improve its impact on the environment. <br />By way of background, this project proposes the following: <br />Construct an underground storage treatment system which will collect stormwater <br />and filter backwash water from the City's water treatment plant. <br />2. Waste products which currently are discharged to Mirror Lake and to the Mississippi <br />River will be stored and used to irrigate City Hall and Central Park. <br />3. This project will reduce stormwater runoff volumes and pollutants associated with <br />runoff to both Mirror Lake and the Mississippi River. <br />This project also reduces the quantity of treated drinking water which is currently <br />used to irrigate Central Park and the City Hall complex. <br />Irrigating with reused water reduces the volume of groundwater utilized for <br />irrigation. <br />Attached for your consideration is a Resolution authorizing the City to enter into an agreement with <br />the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization to fund the St. Anthony Water Reuse Project. <br />In addition to funding from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, funding and <br />contributions are also anticipated to be provided by the Rice Creek Watershed District, Hennepin <br />County, and the City of St. Anthony Village. We are also pursuing, but have not received <br />commitments yet, from Metropolitan Council and the Minnesota Board of Water & Soil Resources. <br />K\ 1745-02\Ar)MINU)oC$UfrR-6meo-120407.doo <br />