Agenda - Council - 07/28/2015 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

84 • Encourage the use of environmentally sensitive development techniques • Promote best management practices for agricultural activities, where appropriate • Prepare and implement local water supply plans that reflect this Master Water Supply Plan and source water (wellhead) protection plans, consistent with Minn. Rules Part 4720, in all communities with municipal water supply Additional activities • Develop and maintain water supply infrastructure • Manage finances of infrastructure, including setting water rates • Monitor drinking water quality and quantity, groundwater levels, system operation, and water use • Conduct technical analyses • Develop and adopt local comprehensive plans (including the local water supply plan), source water protection plans, comprehensive water plans, and capital improvement plans • Develop and enforce ordinances and zoning addressing issues such as water conservation, wellhead protection, and well drilling within municipal water supply service areas • Stay up to date about and implement best management practices for water conservation and pollution prevention • Educate residents and customers about pollution prevention, water conservation, and stormwater management • If county has an approved Groundwater Plan, then ensure that the community's water supply plan is consistent with it • Use local zoning to promote land use that minimizes potential contaminant sources in drinking water management areas and that uses water efficiently including land use that maximizes opportunities for reuse of stormwater and/or reclaimed wastewater • If delegated to a local board of health by the Minnesota Department of Health, manage delegated well programs for regulating of water wells, monitoring wells, and/or dewatering wells such as Minneapolis and Bloomington Metropolitan Council Role The mission of the Metropolitan Council Environmental Services division is to provide wastewater services and integrated planning to ensure sustainable water quality and water supply for the region. The role of the Council in water supply planning is to: • Work with partners to develop a regional plan • Maintain a base of technical information • Provide assistance to communities in developing their local water supply plans, and • Identify approaches for emerging issues The Metropolitan Area Water Supply Advisory Committee and other work groups guide the Council in this work. The Council is not a water supplier. The regional planning process has been designed and applied to ensure local water suppliers have control of and responsibility for their water supply systems. Responsibilities Master Water Supply Plan Implementation WATER SUPPLY MASTER PLAN- Draft June 2015