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WSB AMMMM ,i ,.,,. /o. July 17, 2013 The Honorable Mayor, City Council and Staff c/o Mark Casey City of St. Anthony Village 3301 Silver Lake Road NG St. Anthony Village, MN 55418-1603 701 Xenia Avenue South Suite 300 Minneapolis, MN 55416 Tel 763-541-4600 Fax: 763-541-1700 Re: New Brighton and St. Anthony Petition to Rice Creek Watershed District for Basic Water Management Project - St. Anthony Village, MN Dear Honorable Mayor, City Council, and Staff: St. Anthony and New Brighton have been working with the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) to develop a response to the July, 2011 flood event. Based on these discussions, a Resolution has been prepared for your consideration petitioning the RCWD to establish a phased Basic Water Management Project. "chis Petition allows RCWD to undertake the following phased approach to the July 2011 flood event: Phase 1: Identify and analyze current conditions, challenges and opportunities related to stormwater management and flood damage within the Cities and make recommendations for actions likely to address comprehensive stormwater management and flood damage issues within the Cities and those downstream areas affected by stormwater runoff including Pike and Long Lake; Phase 2: Develop a regional, comprehensive stormwater management and flood damage reduction plan, to include water quality features, which identifies capital improvements and other actions to be undertaken by the Cities and the Rice Creek Watershed District; Phase 3: Develop implementation timelines and priorities, costs allocations and revenue generation methods for both implementation and long term maintenance of capital improvements and water quality features; Phase 4: hnplement one or more of the project components identified in Phase 2 as a coordinated series of capital improvements by the Cities and the Rice Creek Watershed District; The attached petition is limited to the actions set forth in Phase 1 above until such time as the Cities, individually orjointly, amend this petition to proceed with subsequent actions contained in Phases 2 - 4. New Brighton and St. Anthony request that the Rice Creek Watershed District initiate a phased petition approach, by directing its engineer to evaluate the Cities' 2011 Flood Reports and further identify stormwater management, flood damage reduction and water quality opportunities to be St. Cloud • Minneapolis • St. Paul Equal Opportunity Employer wsbeng.com KzIMN.4WManaaoa—I.d—aan h—, 071111,1- 1.9