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Ramsey Conservation District 130 SWCD Guidebook 2008-2009 1425 Paul Kirkwold Drive Arden Hills, MN 55112 PHONE: (651) 266-7270 FAX: (651) 266-7276 www.ramseyconservation.org SWCD board meetings: 3rd Thursday of month at 10 a.m. Ramsey County Land Cover Agricultural Forest Grass/Shrub/Wetland Water Impervious Recent Projects / Accomplishments Assistance on native plant best management practices (BMPs) has been provided annually to nearly 100 customers, including public sector organizations and private landowners, by Ramsey Conservation District (RCD) staff over the last three years. The RCD provides cost-share, design assistance and installation of native plant BMPs through the Native plant Alternatives Towards Urban Restoration and the Environment (NATURE) program. Native plant BMPs protect surface water quality and recharge groundwater through storm water infi ltration, enhance and diversify urban wildlife habitat, and stabilize/restore eroding lake shoreline. 2005 Expenditures by category Monitoring / Research $4,800 Education / Outreach $3,300 Wetland Conservation Act $19,000 Cost Share / project construction, implementation and maintenance $20,990 Planning/ other local water management duties $ 237,971 Conservation easement funding / assistance -- Programs and Operations $87,500 Total $373,561 Name Position SWCD Board of Supervisors Address Phone Elected Karen Eckman Treasurer 966 Cobb Road, Shoreview 651-483-8460 2007 Joe Fox Chair 1821 Myrtle Street, Maplewood 651-777-6514 1997 (appointed) Maryjane Reagan P. R.& I. 1917 Pine Hurst Ave., St. Paul 651-698-1038 1997 Dorothy Waltz Vice-Chair 1666 Coffman Street, Apt. 313, Falcon Heights 651-917-0930 2005 Jill Wilkinson Secretary 1019 Fremont Ave., St. Paul 651-210-2546 2005
A premier waterfowl breeding and migration sanctuary was established on a former community gardening site in Roseville. The project, called the Woodview Marsh Wetland Restoration (pictured), was funded through a $250,000 Wetland Road Replacement grant from the Board of Water and Soil Resources and additional funding from the Capitol Region Watershed District. The RCD and the Ramsey County Public Works Department created 20 acres of new-wetland habitat and Public Value Credit wetland habitat. Construction of a weir and removal of 30,000 cubic yards of soil has restored wetland hydrology on the site, and a supplemental planting established diverse wetland plant materials. Two rainwater gardens have been retrofi t within existing storm sewer systems that previously conveyed polluted storm water directly to Lake Phalen and the Mississippi River. Both projects were completed by the RCD in cooperation with the city of St. Paul. Urban runoff management is the greatest challenge to protecting and improving water quality in an urban land-use environment. Infi ltrating stormwater runoff has proven to be a cost-effective best management practice for surface water quality protection. Through a joint powers agreement with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the RCD routinely inspects over 250 active construction sites within Ramsey County for compliance with permit requirements of the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). When necessary, the RCD assists the MPCA with regulatory enforcement and compliance. Nationwide, sediment is the number one non-point source pollutant affecting our water resources, and the NPDES permit program dramatically reduces sediment runoff from construction sites. The RCD is one of only 10 local government units that has this kind of joint powers agreement with the MPCA. Top 5 Natural Resource Concerns 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Groundwater quality/quantity protection Surface water quality protection/improvement Wetland and open space restoration/protection Urban runoff management through lowimpact-development BMPs Environmental stewardship education Future Projects Ramsey Conservation District Wellhead protection plans for the cities of North St. Paul and Saint Anthony Village were developed by RCD staff as a pilot project to implement the Ramsey County Groundwater Quality Protection Plan. The plans will be used by city offi cials to insure that their fi elds containing municipal potable water wells will remain operational and free of contamination into the future. The plans contain an assessment of the geographic area from which the public wells “pull” water (wellhead protection zones) and establishes controls within theses areas to prevent the movement of potential pollutants into water supply wells. Crosby Bluff Restoration -- Crosby Farm Park is a large regional park managed by the city of St. Paul. The park is located on the north bank of the Mississippi River, bellow West 7th Street, between the 35E and Mendota bridges. A large portion of the park’s landscape is a very steep escarpment that has been severely eroded/denuded by poorly managed urban runoff that has been allowed to fl ow over the bluff. Many invasive weed species have further destabilized the bluff. As a follow-up to the Crosby Farm Park Bluff Stabilization/Restoration Study, commissioned by the RCD, the RCD will partner with the City of St. Paul Parks Department and other agencies to develop and implement construction plans to divert stormwater away from the bluff and restore the native plant community and the bluff to a stable condition. Revision of the Ramsey County Groundwater Quality Protection Plan -- With pilot funding from the Board of Water and Soil Resources, the RCD prepared a comprehensive groundwater quality protection plan for the citizens’ Ramsey County Board in the early 1990s. Since this plan was adopted by the Ramsey County Board and put into effect in late 1996, many changes have occurred in groundwater use. Better information is now available on past contamination sources, the extent to which contamination has spread, and of the hydro-geologic conditions of the aquifers beneath Ramsey County. In 2008, the RCD hopes to revise the current plan to refl ect the changes to our groundwater system. 131
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