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Metropolitan Council <br />Advocating regional economic, societal and environmental issues and solutions <br />May 2, 1994 <br />To Metropolitan Area Watershed Management Organizations: <br />The Metropolitan Council has been charged by the legislature with defining "target watershed loads' <br />for all watersheds in the Metropolitan Area. Preliminary attempts to gather existingwatershed-level <br />data yielded very little data. <br />To overcome this difficulty, the Council is considering instituting a program to provide seed money <br />to WMOs to get a watershed outlet monitoring program established in select watersheds throughout <br />the region. The Minnesota River tributaries currently being monitored by the MWCC are aot being <br />included in this program because there are five years still remaining in that program. <br />This letter is merely a request of your organization to tell us what it would take in terms of annual <br />financial support over atwo-to-four year period to get your WMO to undertake watershed outlet <br />sampling. Our interest is in a minimum two-year program reflective of hydrologic conditions <br />throughout the year; that is, we would require rainfall and snowmelt event monitoring, as well as <br />some limited basefiow monitoring. We are not interested in routine monthly or semi-monthly <br />collection of concentration data. Flow data would be needed on a continual basis. Automated <br />equipment can be used to collect flow and water quality data with minimum off-hours labor required. <br />The Council would be willing to help with the purchase of equipment, labor, site installation, and/or <br />laboratory costs involved in the collection of data. There will be some kind of required match, yet <br />to be determined. <br />Based on the responses received, the Council will consider what is needed to obtain data across <br />representative watersheds and how the various expressions of interest fit those needs. Please do not <br />take the effort to assemble a major monitoring proposal at this time. Rather, a short expression of <br />interest and an indication of what you would need to get it accomplished will help the most. <br />Please direct any inquiries and your letters of interest to me at the Council's Water Management <br />Unit. I can be reached at 291-6484. Thank you! <br />Sincerely, <br />''v"- J ~ ~''6 <br />Gary I.. Oberts <br />Sr. Environmental Planner <br />Mean Park Centre 230 Fast Fifth Street St. ~aul, Minnesota 55101-1634 612 291-6359 Fax 291-6550 TDD 291-0904 <br />An Equal Opportunity Employer <br />® Recycletl Paper <br />