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Inside: <br />A Word from 2 <br />Public Works <br />Tour de Hugo 3 <br />Elections 4 <br />Economic <br />Development <br />Recreation <br />Programs <br />Transit <br />Options <br />Budget <br />Overview <br />5 <br />sur <br />rlu <br />0 <br />Reny <br />tv <br />City Council Partners in Golf <br />Course Water Re -use Project <br />The City of Hugo, in partnership with the Rice Creek Watershed District, Minne- <br />sota Board of Water and Soil Resources, and Oneka Ridge Golf Course, have put <br />the final touches on a remarkable water re -use irrigation project. The project was <br />a top priority of the City Council, and it could not have been possible without a <br />tremendous amount of planning and collaboration. <br />z <br />illillillIL"aml I <br />Photo Courtesy of the Rice Creek Watershed District <br />After securing a Minnesota Clean Water Fund grant for the project, construction <br />began in November of 2013 and was completed earlier this summer. The Oneka <br />6 Ridge Golf Course project collects and stores stormwater runoff from nearly <br />1,000 acres of land upstream of Bald Eagle Lake. The golf course will use the <br />water collected to irrigate 116 acres of land instead of tapping into the groundwa- <br />6 ter supply. Runoff water flows into a large pond along the 18th fairway, through a <br />series of private agricultural channels. This captured runoff is then pumped from <br />the pond, into the golf course's irrigation system. Excess water beyond that is <br />7 directed to another pond, on the 7th fairway, where buried perforated pipes allow <br />it to replenish the aquifer. This infiltration system puts up to 300 million gallons <br />of water back into the ground every year! <br />Hardwood 7 I Continued on Page 4 <br />Creek Trail <br />