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2 %·¤¢´³¨µ¤ 3´¬¬ ±¸ The City of Ramsey contracted the Anoka Conservation District to complete an inventory of riverbank condition along the entire 5.8 miles of City that border the Mississippi River. The inventory provides the City with a comprehensive record of bank condition. Ten stretches of riverbank with severe or very severe erosion were identified, which if stabilized, would reduce sediment loading to the river by 5,148 tons per year. The inventory is structured as this report as well as an atlas. The report provides details on the methodology used to estimate bank erosion severity and potential benefits provided by stabilizing the most severely eroding sections of riverbank. The 10 most severely eroding sections of riverbank are also detailed in the report with individual site profiles to highlight additional information and potential solutions. The atlas is presented in Appendix A and provides a complete record of aerial photographs with the corresponding erosion severity categorizations and key pictures collected during the field work portion of this effort. As not all pictures are presented in the atlas, the final deliverables also include the complete picture inventory collected in early December 2015. Methods &¨¤«£ 7®±ª The project scope was determined to be the entire 5.8 miles of City that border the Mississippi River. An atlas of the target area was printed prior to conducting the field work to serve as a navigation tool on the river and ensure complete coverage of the riverbank. The inventory was conducted on December 10th and 11th, 2015. The timing was optimal because the river level was relatively low, bank vegetation was dormant, and snow had not yet fallen to obscure the bank. Other times of the year were considered for the inventory, but frequent high water levels in the spring, dense bank vegetation in the summer, and river ice and snow on the bank in the winter all prevented the collection of a useful picture inventory. The inventory crew consisted of two Anoka Conservation District (ACD) staff members. A small boat was used to navigate the river and take geotagged pictures using a handheld GPS. These pictures can be viewed similar to pictures taken on a standard camera, but they also contain spatial information (i.e. X and Y coordinates). This feature allows them to be accurately mapped in GIS software. In order to take high quality photos, the boat navigated at idle speed typically between 50 and 100 feet from shore depending on water depth. 7¨²¢®²¨ .2#3 $¨±¤¢³ 6®«´¬¤ -¤³§®£ " ª 2¤¢¤²²¨® 2 ³¤ #ategorizations The picture inventory was used to digitize a polyline in GIS along the entire riverbank. Using the Wisconsin NRCS Direct Volume Method, the polyline was classified as slight, moderate, severe, or very severe with respect to erosion severity (Table 1). These erosion categorizations were then converted to lateral recession rates using the table below for use in soil loss calculations.