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13 <br />92688.4HD <br />To: Mayor Grabek & Orono Council Members <br />From: Mark E. Bernhardson, City Administrator COUNCIL <br />Date: September 20, 1988 I O <br />Subject: Clean Water Grant Request/Long Lake/M.C.W.D. v` 8 19�6 <br />ATTACHMENT - A. M.C.W.D. Letter Dated 8/25/88-;1 <br />ISSUE - <br />1. Determination as to whether the Council would give its support to <br />seek a grant for a clean water project for the lake of Long Lake. <br />2. Determination if the Council supports the idea and at what level <br />of support the Council would give for the grant application. <br />INTRODUCTION - As <br />noted in Attachment A, <br />the Minnehaha Creek Watershed <br />District has for a <br />considerable <br />period of <br />time considered doing a water <br />quality project for <br />the Long Lake watershed <br />area. This project will be the <br />second project to be undertaken <br />in the Conservation District. The first <br />project was the Painter's Creek <br />Watershed <br />District. That project, which <br />cost a little over <br />$500,000, was <br />funded by a <br />conservation district levy. <br />DISCUSSION - The water quality as noted in Long Lake has not been good and <br />the lake has been going from a eutrophic condition to a hyper-eutrophic <br />state, i.e. it is a lake in trouble. In addition to the water quality <br />impact that this has on Long Lake itself, it is a major contributor to Lake <br />Minnetonka and therefore has an impact on its quality. <br />It is proposed by the M.C.W.D. that the cities give the watershed district <br />support so that they can undertake a grant application. If a grant were <br />obtained from the State it would pay up to 50% of the cost of the project <br />and there is a possibility that an additional 20% of the funds could be <br />obtained from other State and Federal programs. The balance would be on a <br />conservation district wide levy. The project itself would be in two parts. <br />The first part would be a monitoring and diagnostic stage in which they <br />would try to determine the sources causing the low lake quality in Long <br />Lake, with the second phase being corrections of those problems. It is <br />estimated that the cost of the initial phase for the project would be <br />between $50,000 and $100,000. At this point it is not known what cost it <br />would be for attempts to remedy that situation. <br />