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LRRWMO Meeting Minutes August 1, 1996 Page 2 Investigate Outfall Easements: Consensus reached to make no change. Develop Outfall Improvement Strategy: Consensus reached to make no change. Wetlands Management: Prepare Comprehensive Wetlands Plan: Haas reviewed a recently adopted Andover ordinance requiring a 16.5 foot buffer along wetland azeas. He stated he believes the cost to prepaze a Comprehensive Wetlands Plan will exceed $24,000. Lobermeier reviewed the BWSR requirement regazding this topic and how other communities are meeting it. Jankowski suggested that an intern could prepaze a Comprehensive Wetlands Plan to rank wetland azeas. Haas commented on the need to justify this type of cost to the City Council. Discussion ensued regazding requirements to pretreat drainage prior to entering a wetland. Consensus reached to shift funding source to BWSR and Anoka Conservation District (ACD) due to receipt of matching grant through ACD to hire an intern. Establish Wetland Rankine with "MNRAM": Consensus reached to shift funding source to BWSR and ACD. • Biannually Verify Wetland Rankines: Consensus reached to shift funding source to BWSR and ACD. Regulatory Programs: Lobermeier reviewed changes made to this section at a previous meeting. Review then turned to the EXECUTIVE SUIvIMARY section as follows: Pa e 2: General Boundaries & Membership -Revise to indicate "The Lower Rum River Watershed is located in the southwestern part of Anoka County"... Paee 7: Rum River Dam: A Priority -Ferguson advised that Coon Rapids prefers to not include the sentence indicating "WMO participation in the current inspection and future repair is warranted" and suggested it be eliminated from this specific section of the Plan since it would require Council consideration. It was noted that reference to the dam is included in other areas of the Plan. Consensus reached to revise to indicate: "WMO participation in the current inspection and future repair needs to be defined" and "Anoka currently bears the entire brunt of the cost of operating and monitoring the dam". (Remove "derives no benefit from the dam but".) County Ditch Issues: Eliminate end of paragraph: "which now serve an urban, rather than a • rural function." Stormwater Wetlands: Lobermeier to revise last sentence.