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5.3. Water Quality 5.3.1. Goal Maintain or improve the quality of water in lakes, streams, and wetlands within or immediately downstream of the City of Hugo. 5.3.2. Policies 1. Hugo's primary means of protecting water quality is to reduce and reuse stormwater runoff. 2. Hugo's water quality program seeks to replenish wetlands and lakes with clean water and maintain base flow in streams by letting runoff absorb into the ground. 3. Hugo requires that stormwater BMPs include sufficient water quality pretreatment to preserve the function of these facilities. 4. As allowed by RCWD Rule C.5(f), for properties within the RCWD boundary, the City of Hugo develops CSMPs to manage stormwater at a regional scale within Resource Areas of Concern. 5. The City's preferred method to achieve desired water quality standards, specifically total suspended solids (TSS) and total phosphorus (TP) reduction is through its volume management policies, pursuant to RCWD Rule C. 6. The design and construction of all new stormwater ponds, stormwater conveyance systems and modifications to existing stormwater ponds or conveyance systems, must be designed to meet NURP water quality standards and predevelopment phosphorous loads as is required by CMSCWD Rule 2.4.1 and BCWD Rule 2.4.1. RCWD Rule C shall also apply to stormwater ponds. 7. For stormwater discharged to slightly and least susceptible wetlands, storm water must be treated to remove 75% of the sediment and must follow RCWD Rule C.8 and Rule C.6(e). 8. The City of Hugo will sweep the streets at least two times annually. Furthermore, future purchases of street sweeping units will give consideration to street sweepers which have the greatest ability to remove nutrients from the streets within the community. 9. The City will encourage homeowners with properties adjacent to water resources to establish a vegetative buffer strip at the shoreline. This strip should consist of legumes or other perennial grasses to limit erosion and nutrient transport across the buffer strip. For properties under the jurisdiction of the BCWD or CMSCWD, a vegetative buffer strip will be required if BCWD Rule 4.0 or CMSCWD Rule 4.0 is triggered due to development activity. 10. The City has adopted Washington County Subsurface Sewage Treatment System Regulations Ordinance which became effective April 28, 2015. This ordinance is in compliance with the MPCA individual wastewater treatment regulations. A copy can be found in Appendix E of this WRMP. SECTION 5