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I <br />I <br />I <br />r <br />i I <br />i' <br />»• <br />M <br />M <br />M <br />H <br />M <br />If <br />I <br />I <br />i; <br />In recent years, however, more urbanization has increased the amounts of direct <br />storm water runoff resulting in high water levels and in some cases flooding <br />problems for low-lying properties. Upland water retention an d a controllable outlet <br />at Gray's Day hax T- now become priorities of the Minnehaha Creek Wate rshed <br />District.(?) Management of runoff and protection of water quality have now become <br />primary objectives of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District. <br />The problems of Lake Minnetonka have been were intensively studied by many <br />agencies over the las t twenty yea rs in the I960*s and I970*s . These agencies <br />included the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Minnesota Department of <br />Natural Resources, the Metropolitan Council, the Minnehaha Creek Watershed <br />District, the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District and the City of Orono. The <br />major publications addressing Minnetonka's problems and which formed the basis <br />for the goals and policies of this Orono's 1980 CMP and this update of it, are as <br />follows: <br />1969 Overall Plan for Water Management; MCWD <br />1971 "Harza Study", A Program for Preserving the Quality of Lake <br />Minnetonka; LMCD & Mn. PCA <br />1973 Shoreland Management Regulations of the Mn. DNR <br />1973 Stormwater Impact Investigation for the Metropolitan Council <br />1974 Surface Water Management Plan for the City of Orono <br />1979 208 Water Quality Management Plan for the Metropolitan Council <br />Orono's special involvement with Lake Minnetonka is based upon the real <br />concerns of our affected citizens and our intimate and important impact on the <br />total lake environment. While Orono's population is not as large as that of other <br />municipalities in the Lake Minnetonka Watershed, Orono docs have the largest land <br />area and potential environmental impact of any local unit of government. Orono is <br />the largest city totally within the Watershed. Orono has one fifth of the total diy land <br />in the watershed, one quarter of the vvetlands and one third of the lake surface. Orono <br />includes 40% of Lake Minnetonka's total shoreline. Over 30% of the total <br />Watershed's surface runoff flows through or from Orono on its way to the Lake. <br />(Confirm all the above statistics - see below) <br />CMP 3A - 4