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The project will be implemented in three phases as follows: <br />■Phaee Deecription <br />Gray** Bay Public Access and Launch <br />(Attachment 1) <br />Minnehaha Creek Headwaters <br />Time Frame <br />2001-2002 <br />2002-2003 <br />Gray ’s Bay/Wayzata Bay Causeway <br />(Attachment 2) <br />2003-2004 <br />A cooperative agreement between the parties funding the project is needed to <br />establish responsibilities and cost sharing. The Minnehaha Creek Watershed <br />District would pursue this agreement if the project were included into its Capital <br />Improvement Plan. The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District responsibilities for <br />Phase I of the project are technical assistance and potentially cost sharing for <br />storm water management innovations and demonstrations and native shoreline <br />vegetation establishment. Minnehaha Creek Watershed District responsibilities <br />and cost sharing for Phases II aruf lU could include design and construction ____ <br />services for the shoreline stabilization demonstrations using native vegetation <br />and soil bio-engineering, and paying for the incremental construction costs <br />associated with innovative shoreline treatment demonstrations. <br />Need for Project <br />The muKi-jurisdictional Gray ’s Bay Task Force has developed the overall concept <br />for the project over the last 3 years. A summary of the concept developed by the <br />Gray ’s Bay Task Force is included as Attachment 3 and addresses the need for <br />the project. <br />An additional need, not addressed by the Gray's Bay Task Force involves <br />demonstrating to the public that exclusive use of riprap on Lake Minnetonka <br />shoreline is not necessary. The majority of developed property bordering Lake <br />Minnetonka and other Lakes in Minnehaha Creek Watershed District has altered <br />shoreline areas and consequently, natural vegetated buffer areas that protect <br />lakes are largely absent. Alterations of lakeshore properties include removal of <br />native vegetation; clearing or thinning of woody vegetation to improve views; <br />grading to accommodate home construction, yard maintenance and use; and <br />frequent treatment of shoreline areas with rip rap. Riprap treatment solves shore <br />erosion problems but has often been placed as a cosmetic improvement on Lake <br />Minnetonka residential lots. While rip rap, if properly installed, represents a <br />solution to erosion and ice pressure damage, H also has destructive effects on <br />C;\M)f Docum«iit\MCWDVOf*y« Bay Bk>\pl*'**>n*n<Xntfltdoc <br />2