Agenda - Environmental Policy Board - 03/02/2015

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Updated Storm Water Management Plan (SWMP) City of Ramsey, Minnesota incorporated into the upstream development where possible. The recommended ordinance changes should help ensure that this occurs. Figures 21 & 22 — TROTT Watershed This watershed is unique in that the majority of the area is currently designed as low impact development. The general nature of the Trott Brook watershed is that it is a linear wetland. The majority of the ponds are functioning well. City staff has noted that one area, near 179th Avenue and Azurite Street is a problem area (Figure 9). This area is also highlighted as a potential threat to structures in Figure 21. Regrading the roadside ditches or constructing a new outfall to relieve this area is recommended to alleviate the problem flooding in this area. The remaining red highlighted pond and the only yellow highlighted pond in TROTT Watershed are infiltration areas with no historic complaints of flooding in the vicinity. Because our model conservatively assumes no infiltration, any threat of flooding from this pond may be exaggerated. If infiltration is not resolving the problem, the emergency overflow from this area should be regraded to protect the structures in the area. Figures 23 & 24 — WMISS Watershed This watershed includes the RTC area which will function well when the south storm sewer outfall is constructed. However, some ponds are indicated as being a threat. To ensure that this does not become a problem, we recommend using the SSA model to correct these potential problems as future expansion of the RTC area occurs. The residential area to the northwest has several ponds that should be reviewed with the same considerations as the Trott and Ditch 43 watersheds. Pond number P17306, located immediately west of 156th and Nutria, shows as a potential threat to structures and as an area of property owner complaints. This appears to be a land locked infiltration pond that has very little infiltration capacity. The best solution to this pond is to provide an outfall to the west. Pond P21210 -E, immediately south of 151' Avenue and east of Rhinestone Street, is also shown as flooded. This is also an isolated infiltration with no outlet. The property owners in the vicinity of this pond have filed complaints of nuisance flooding in this area. Solutions for this pond include: • Expanding the storage and working the pond invert to encourage infiltration • Regrading to lower the existing emergency overflow channel • Constructing a new piped outfall to serve the area. There are two infiltration basins in the mid -eastern part of the watershed (Section 21 near 162nd Avenue and Zirconium Street that have been modeled to be either using the emergency spillway or a potential threat to structures. Although the peak elevation of these ponds may be exaggerated by neglecting infiltration in our model, nuisance flooding has been reported in the vicinity by area residents as shown in Figure 9. To alleviate this problem in Pond P21208, we recommend constructing an outlet culvert outlet under 161` Avenue may adequately address the problem flooding experienced there. The problem in Pond P21210, which is upstream from the residential nuisance flooding area, may be corrected by either expanding the infiltration basin storage or by regrading the emergency overflow spillway at a lower elevation to alleviate the potential flooding threat. Section X February 20, 2015March 6, 2015 Page 68