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HA <br />I <br />A� <br />MINNEHAHA CREEK <br />WATERSHED DISTRICT <br />P.O. Box 387, Wayzata, Minnesota 55391 <br />SOARO OF MANAGERS Camille 0. Andre. Res. • Albert L Lehman a John E Thomas <br />James R. Soensley • Richard R. Miller • Robert 0. Erickson • C Woodrow Love <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />RE: <br />City Council <br />City of Orono <br />.at <br />t;;N <br />WATERSHED /DUNDARY <br />Posb�t'•routlrp request Pad 76" <br />ROUTING - REOUEST <br />Please <br />READ <br />❑ HANDLE <br />❑ APPROVE <br />and <br />❑ FORWARD <br />❑ RETURN <br />❑ K P OR DI$CdRD <br />REVIEW WITH ME <br />Date <br />Board of Managers <br />Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) <br />August 25, 1988 <br />To <br />i <br />From__ <br />Clean Water Partnership Grant Application for a non -point source <br />pollution abatement project on Long Lake. <br />I. INTRODUCTION <br />The Chairman of the Board of Managers and District staff recently met with the <br />Mayor of Long Lake, and city staff persons of the cities of Long Lake and Orono <br />to discuss water quality issues in the Long Lake subwatershed. The MCWD raised <br />the possibility of a cooperative effort on the part of the MCWD, various <br />municipalities, and agencies in the preparation of a grant application for <br />possible funding under the MPCA Clean Water Partnership program. If such a <br />grant were secured, a project to improve the water quality of Long Lake would <br />occur involving two phases: a diagnostic -feasibility and monitoring phase to <br />better define the problem and possible solutions and the implementation of <br />activ-ties and best management practices necessary to achieve the water quality <br />goals and objectives in the project area. <br />II. SUBWATERSHED DESCRIPTION/PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION <br />Description <br />The Long Lake Creek subwatershed encompasses an area of 11.44 square miles in <br />the north -central portion of the Lake Minnetonka watershed. It is located <br />entiraly in Hennepin County and cortains land lying within the cities of Long <br />Lake, Mediia, Orono and Plymouth. It is adjacent to the Painter Creek <br />subwatershed (,,ee attached map). Prominent lake- within this subwatershed <br />include Long Lake, Mooney Lake, Holy Name Lake ilo 4olsfeld Lake. Major land <br />use categories presently include: agricultural %), wooded (19%), wetland and <br />lakes (19%), low and medium density residential (8%), and open space (7%). <br />Significant changes in land use are projected for the year 2000 conditions, at <br />which time 63 percent of the unit could consist of low density residential <br />development. To offset this increase, the agricultural and wooden categories <br />{ are projected to decline to less than 1 percent ui" total unit area by the <br />year 2000. The existing 1,386 acres of lakes and wotlands will remain <br />unc,�anged. <br />