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JOINT AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TRE LOWER RUM RIVER WATERSHED MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION TO PLANv CONTROL AND PROVIDE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF T~E LOWER RUM RIVER WATERSHED PREFACE The Lower Rum River Watershed lying East of the Mississippi River is a watershed that is basically a direct tributary to the MississipPi River. It encompasses all or parts of the following cities: Andover, Anoka, Coon Rapids, Ramsey. Minnesota Laws of 1982, Chapter 509, mandated that all watersheds within the seven county Metropolitan area must be governed by a watershed management organization and said law has been amended and is now codified as Minnesota Statutes 1992, Sections 103B.201 through 103Bo251. The Watershed is authorized to organize under a joint powers agreement pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 471.59 organization is not created, Anoka establishment of a watershed district and Section 103B.211 or if such an County shall petition for the under Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 103D. Ail the cities in the Lower Rum River Watershed expressed a desire in 1985 to create a joint powers group rather than a watershed and now desire to adopt an amended joint powers agreement to establish a Watershed Management Organization which will comply with the current law for management of this watershed. It is the belief of these four cities that a joint powers group will provide more efficient planning and administration of the Lower Rum River Watershed if the watershed is managed under a joint powers agreement. The goal is to leave as much control as possible with the four individual member cities. It has been determined by the four cities involved in the watershed that they desire to proceed under a Joint Powers Agreement rather than under Chapter 103D as a watershed district. Each party to this agreement has