RCWD public meetings to discuss the Southwest Urban Lake Study
The Rice Creek Watershed District will be holding public meetings to discuss the Southwest Urban Lake Study. This study was initiated to address water quality issues on lakes in the southwest portion of the District. Twenty-four lakes are included in the study. The public meetings will be broken in four parts, each of which will address water quality issues on six lakes. The dates, locations, and lakes included in each of these meetings are as follows
Lakes: Johanna, Josephine, Little Johanna, Little Josephine, Island, Zimmerman –to be announced
RCWD Regular Board meeting time 9 a.m. beginning April 9, 2008
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE That the Rice Creek Watershed District Board of Managers has changed their meeting time to 9 a.m. beginning April 9, 2008. The regular meeting date and location has not changed. The regular meeting date is every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month in the Shoreview City Hall Council Chambers 4600 North Victoria Street, Shoreview MN.
Blue Thumb – Planting for Clean Water™ Program
The Blue Thumb – Planting for Clean WaterTM program will receive the Governor’s Award – Minnesota Government Reaching Environmental Achievements Together (MN GREAT!) on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at the Minnesota Air, Water, and Waste Environmental Conference. The Blue Thumb program is an online outreach program with A to Z information to help residents plan and plant native gardens, raingardens, and shorelines with native plants. The website bluethumb.org features planting blueprints, a plant selector tool, local retailers and landscapers, grant information, how-to guides, and more.
June 2008 permit application deadline
May submission deadline will be June 3, 2008, 4:30 p.m. at the District office….
Anoka/Washington Judicial Ditch 4 Resource Management Plan and Proposed Rule RMP-2
The JD 4 resource management plan (RMP) applies to the drainage areas for the Anoka County Ditch 15 and Judicial Ditch 4 in the Rice Creek watershed. It may serve as a repair alternative for JD 4 and ACD 15, in the event that a repair is ordered by the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD). The existing ditch systems are described and compared to the official ditch elevations adopted by the RCWD. However, detailed data are referenced to existing and official profile memoranda prepared for the RCWD.
RCWD Board Adopts Revised Rules 02/13/2008
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 the Rice Creek Board of Managers approved the attached rules.
Anoka County Ditch 25 & 10-22-32 Repair Reports
On June 13, 2007, the RCWD Board directed its engineers to complete Repair Reports for two public drainage systems, Anoka County Ditch (ACD) 25 and ACD 10-22-32 located primarily in the City of Lino Lakes.
The Repair Reports have been completed as directed and are included in the Board Packet. At the October 10th Board meeting, the District Engineer will provide a brief presentation outlining the contents of the reports and key findings. The District Engineer, as well as Staff and Counsel, will be available to address Board questions.
Anoka County Ditch 25 Repair Report
New Permit Schedule Adopted
The Rice Creek Watershed District Board of Managers approved a new permit deadline and schedule for processing permits. The new deadline for permit applications is 22 days prior to the permit Board meeting date (4th Wednesday of each month, November and December exceptions due to holidays). For applications involving impacts to wetlands, the application deadline is 40 days prior to the permit Board meeting date.
Low Impact Development
The Rice Creek Watershed District was a contributor toward the establishment of a model Low Impact Development (LID) project along the Vermillion River. This project is a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Environmental Initative Awards, the most prestigious environmental award in Minnesota.
As explained by one of our partners in this project—the Minnehaha Watershed District: Low Impact Development (LID) is an innovative stormwater management approach with a basic principle that is modeled after nature: manage rainfall at the source. LID uses uniformly distributed decentralized micro-scale controls. LID’s goal is to mimic a site’s predevelopment hydrology by using design techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, and detain runoff close to its source. Techniques are based on the premise that stormwater management should not be seen as stormwater disposal.
Anoka County Ditch 53-62 Resource Management Plan
The Rice Creek Watershed District has developed a Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the watershed of Anoka County Ditch (ACD) 53-62 in Blaine. The purpose of this RMP is to satisfy the Rice Creek Watershed District’s own petition to repair Anoka County Ditch 53-62 (ACD 53-62) and to provide a resource and conservation-based framework for aquatic resource management within the ACD 53-62 watershed area.