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21 <br />STATE Or MINNESOTA <br />RICE CREEK WATERSHED DISTRICT <br />The matter of the petition of the Cities of New <br />Brighton and Saint Anthony for a Basic Water <br />Management Project to address stormwater <br />management and flooding within the Cities of <br />New Brighton and Saint Anthony <br />Petition for Watershed Project <br />Petitioners Cities of New Brighton and Saint Anthony, for their petition to the Board of <br />Managers of the Rice Creek Watershed District state and request the following: <br />1. In July of 2011 the Cities experienced historic rainfall and associated flooding. The <br />events highlighted existing flood risks and caused the Cities to evaluate the adequacy of existing <br />stormwater conveyance and management facilities in the Cities. <br />2. Fach City relies upon public drainage systems, managed by the Rice Creek Watershed <br />District as the Drainage Authority, as the ultimate, downstream outlet for storinwater. In most <br />cases the public drainage systems serve as the direct outlets for the Cities' municipal stormwater <br />infrastructure. The specific public drainage systems are Ramsey County Ditches 2, 3 and 5, <br />which are interconnected to a series of lakes, the prominent being Pike Lake and Long Lake. <br />3. As a result of the flooding, each City requested engineering review of the adequacy of the <br />conveyance infrastructure and the adequacy of existing flood storage provided by the drainage <br />systems and an investigation of improvements that could be pursued to reduce future flooding of <br />the impacted areas. <br />4. The Cities' engineering consultant, WSB & Associates, Inc., prepared reports for each <br />City entitled "2011 Flood: Investigation and Stormwater Modeling Report." A copy of each <br />report is appended and incorporated into this Petition by reference. <br />5. The report for the City of New Brighton identified specific drainage improvements to <br />reduce future flooding at an approximate opinion of cost of $8.7 million. <br />6. The report for the City of Saint Anthony identified specific drainage improvements to <br />reduce future flooding at an approximate opinion of cost of $1.7 to 3 million. <br />7. 'The spatial extent of the analysis within these reports terminated at the City boundaries, <br />excluding an analysis of the potential downstream consequences of the drainage improvements. <br />8. The costs also only consider the specific improvements identified for selected areas <br />within the specific cities that experienced flooding in the summer of 2011 and did not consider <br />