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; I <br />A <br />1 <br />yJEST SHORE LAFAYETTE BAY ASSOCIATION, INC. <br />2480 Old Beach Road <br />Uayzata, Minnesota 55391 <br />#319 <br />▼ • — <br />members of the City Council <br />City of Orono <br />Orono, minnesota <br />GentlemenI <br />The residents of the Ulest Shore of Lafayette Bay on Lake <br />minnetonka, with the cooperation of the Freshwater <br />Biological Research Foundation (FBRF), have agreed to <br />defray the costs to re-dredge the existing boat channel <br />in Lafayette Bay. The Board of Directors of the FBRF <br />has agreed to accomodate the spoils on their land <br />using all the technology available to ensure that the <br />project is environmentally sound* This involves estab­ <br />lishing a holding pond with -filtration of water into a <br />wetland, followed by slow filtration from the wetland <br />back into Lafaystte Bay. Ule propose to use a mud-Cat <br />to take 2^ feet of silt out of the existing boat channel. <br />Dredging the channel in this way should have little im­ <br />pact on the ecology of the bay, in fact it may wall im­ <br />prove the habitat for flora and fauna by increasing <br />water circulation in this sheltered (sometimes stagnant) <br />bay. <br />Bearing in mind that the residents of Uiest Lafayette Bay <br />and the FBRF have organized themselves in such a community <br />project costing approximately 830,000, we urge you to help <br />us and advise us on the protocols needed to begin this <br />project as soon as possible. Ue feel that the practicali­ <br />ties of the project are helped by having a low level in <br />the lake. Uie thank you for your consideration. <br />i <br />Sincerely yours, <br />WEST SHORE^ LAWYETTE BAY ASSN. <br />^ - - - -- <br />Geo. bi. Ronald, Secretary. <br />—“I - —« fc.,