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'Document: RES 87-012 RESOLUTION CONCERNING RICE CREEK
WTERSHED DISTRICT WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT PLAN
RESOLUTION 87-012
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING RICE CREEK WATERSHED DISTRICT
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT PLAN
WHEREAS, the Rice Creek Watershed District has prepared a water
resources management plan as required by Chapter 509 of the Laws
of Minnesota of 1982 ; and
WHEREAS, as part- of- said law such plans are to be sent to any
city within the district for comment as part of the overall
review process ; and
WHEREAS, the City of St. Anthony has reviewed this plan and finds
it to contain a number of flaws, including areas of potentially
very serious impact on the City. Said areas being set forth in
Exhibit A entitled RICE CREEK WATERSHED WATER RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT PLAN, CITY COMMENTS.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of St. Anthony
hereby advises the Rice Creek Watershed District that it finds
the Water Resource Management Plan to contain a number of flaws
with potentially very serious impact as follows and more
explicitly detailed in Exhibit A:
1 . Water quantity implementation approach.
• 2 . Water quality protection approach.
3 . Overall management of the Rice Creek trunk itself .
4 . Duplication of effort with other agencies.
5 . High implementation cost.
6 . Ditch modification restrictions.
7 . Various city specific items.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Manager of the City of St.
Anthony is hereby instructed to send this resolution expressing
the City' s serious concern to the Rice Creek Watershed District
before March 1 , 1987 .
Adopted this 10 day of r 1987
:• . Mayor
"'ATTEST: la 7
City Clerk
. Rev-iewed' for administration:
- City Manager