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MINUTES OF THE LAKE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
May 15, 2001
I. CALL TO ORDER
Chair Warner called the Lake Advisory Committee (LAC) meeting to order at 6:35 p.m.
Members present: Dale Braddy, Shirley Gengler, Lauren Huntington, and Rick Warner.
Members absent: Charles Gerlach. Others present: Lani Leichty, Caroline Burau and Scott
County Sheriff Bill Nevin.
II. CONSIDER APPROVAL OF APRIL 17, 2001 MEETING MINUTES
MOTION BY WARNER, SECONDED BY GENGLER TO APPROVE THE APRIL 17, 2001
MEETING MINUTES, UPON A VOTE, MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSL Y.
III. SURFACE WATER VIOLATIONS AND ENFORCEMENT
Bill Nevin, Scott County Sheriff, passed out a printout of ticket statistics for Prior Lake during
the 2000 boating season. There were fifty-four tickets issued last year and he noted that
there were six BWI's which were not included on the printout.
Gengler: How many hours are spent on the lake patrolling it?
Nevin: There is one patrol officer and four to five part-timers. Prior Lake gets a majority of the
patrol time for lakes in Scott County. On the average Prior Lake is patrolled approximately six
hours a day.
Huntington: How about Spring Lake, I rarely see any patrol officers on this lake?
Nevin: It is difficult to get more people to work, that is one of our main problems,
Braddy: Do you think the number of patrol hours spent on Prior Lake is adequate?
Gengler: Is there a need for more patrol hours on Prior Lake?
Nevin: On busy weekends there are more part-timers patrolling the lake. On July 4th
weekend there will be two people on Prior Lake and one on Spring Lake. There were several
unique accidents on the lake last year. Most of the accidents were more like fender benders,
if related to car accidents.
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Warner: Part of the problem with the additional traffic on the lake is that lakeshore residents
own more watercraft vehicles than in years past.
Nevin: One of the biggest complaints is the 150-foot no wake violation by personal
watercraft.
Braddy: If we see a problem, many violations occurring, do you have a plan to handle it?
Nevin: We will add more staff to help deter violations.
Huntington: Periodic checks also work well; this helps to remind people what they should be
doing, Could you have a volunteer do checks?
Nevin: The volunteer would have to be licensed to stop a boater.
Gengler: Could non-paid people drive a patrol boat to have presence on the lake?
Nevin: There may liability associated with doing something like that.
Warner: The LAC has been talking about starting a lake watch program, similar to a
Neighborhood Watch Program. Signs could be posted at the accesses and possibly on
participants' docks. They would say that the Sheriff will be called if illegal activities are
noticed on the lake.
Nevin: This may be worth a try. If you are a generally law abiding citizen, it may not deter
you, otherwise it may work.
Braddy: Is there anything that the LAC can do to help?
Nevin: If we get more calls, more people will put on the lake for patrol. The officers will
spend more time on the lake,
Braddy: It would be nice to know where the violators are from, are they residents or non-
residents?
Nevin: I will see if staff can rerun the statistic data to see if that information can be obtained.
There was general discussion about the State boating rules regarding age limits, licenses,
and the Candy Cove entry sign.
IV. CLMP ACTION ITEM 1-3f
A revised draft of the letter that Warner worked on was reviewed and commented on, The
LAC thought that the letter should mention the City is planning to address a shoreline
stabilization project at Sand Point Park area that was identified in the shoreline study.
Additional sources of information will be added to the letter such as the Department of Natural
Resources website and resource books at the library.
There was discussion about how to address funding sources. Leichty mentioned that it would
take some time to identify all of the potential grant sources and that for a shoreline project to
be eligible for grant money it would probably have to be a project using natural landscaping or
bioengineering methods. In order to get the letters out in a timely manner, it was decided that
there should be mention about the possibility of grant money available for certain types of
restoration.
V. SAND POINT PARK PROJECT UPDATE
Leichty passed out the Sand Point Park brochures. He asked the committee how else they
would like to promote the project.
Gengler stated that there was an article about the project in the Prior Lake Association
newsletter.
Warner mentioned that he had placed several calls into the Boy Scouts for volunteer help, but
has not heard back from them yet.
Huntington said that she would contact Jim Hughes, science teacher at Five Hawks
Elementary, about the possibility of getting help from his students.
Leichty said that he would make additional brochures to give to the Parks Advisory
Committee.
VI. LAKE TOUR
The lake tour was scheduled to occur on the regular June LAC meeting. Parcels identified in
the Shoreland Study as having severe shoreline erosion will be visited, along with some of the
water inlets/outlets on Prior Lake. Gengler volunteered to use her pontoon boat, which seats
approximately ten people, for the tour. The committee decided to meet at 6:00 p.m. at
Gengler's house, 5432 Fairlawn Shores Trail, June 19th, 2001. In case of rain, the LAC
meeting will be held the normal time at the Fire Station.
VII. OLD BUSINESS
A) Leichty mentioned that the earliest Paul Nelson, Watershed District Administrator, could
conduct a watershed tour would be on June 9, 2001. Leichty will coordinate the time of
the tour and relay this information back to the committee. The members agreed that City
Council members should be invited to go along on the tour.
B) Gengler said that she called Paul Nelson to find out what water quality monitoring the
Watershed District was doing on Prior Lake. They are involved in the Citizens Assisted
Monitoring Program, with two monitoring sites on Lower Prior Lake, one on Upper Prior
Lake and one on Spring Lake. Warner said that he called the Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency to see what they were doing for monitoring on Prior Lake, but they had not called
him back yet. Braddy said that DNR Fisheries is waiting to get the results back from
testing they did on Prior Lake. Warner mentioned that we should meet with the
Watershed District to se how we can help them with the testing that the City is doing and
coordinate the programs. Braddy asked Leichty to check on whether or not the City's
Parks department tests water at the two beaches during the summer.
VIII. NEW BUSINESS
There was no new business.
IX. ADJOURNMENT
MOTION BY WARNER, SECONDED BY BRADDY TO ADJOURN THE MEETING. MOTION
PASSED UNANIMOUSL Y. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 8:22 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
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Lanol Leichty /"
Recording Secretary
,PRIOR LAKE CHLORIDE MONITORING RESULTS
SAMPLE LOCA nON (Chloride in mg/L)
February 24, 2001 43.4 42.8
March 23, 2001 39.6 42.5 44.3
May 1,2001 32.9 31.8 30.8
May 30, 2001 33.2 31.3 32.2
39.4 38.7
35.4 40.5
31.6 30.9
32.8 32.2
37.2
38.9
31.4
32.4
40.1
39.6
30.8
32.7
37.2
36.3
29.9
31.2
37.1
37.6
30.6
30.9
36.5
43.3
28.4
31.1
33.1
39.1
28.6
31.6
34.2
33.4
28.8
30.6
33.2
30.8
28.5
30.5
37.2
71.3
30.7
32
36.5
63.2
30.7
31.6
37.6
42.6
30.3
31.7
Memo
DATE: June 12, 2001
TO: Lake Advisory Committee (LAC) members and
City Council/Staff
FROM: Lani Leichty, Water Resources Coordinator vV
RE: Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed Tour Update
On Saturday, June 9, 2001, Watershed District Administrator, Paul Nelson,
conducted a tour of the watershed for the LAC. Those in attendance were:
Paul Nelson, District Administrator; Dave Moran, Board Manager; Shirley
Gengler, LAC member; Rick Warner, LAC member; Mike Gundlach, Council
member; Lani Leichty, Water Resources Coordinator.
The tour began in the upstream end of the watershed, viewing County Ditch
13 along Trunk Highway 13 and ended at the northern end where the
channel is well defined, adjacent to the old Sheily gravel quarry. Several
other points of interest that were stopped at included:
. Trunk Highway 13 wetland restoration area and chemical feed station
. Prior Lake outlet structure
. Outlet channel restoration project adjacent to Pike Lake Trail
. Spring Lake weed harvesting location
The District has several projects planned this year to improve the water
quality of Spring Lake, which will in turn improve the water quality of Prior
Lake, Some of the projects include weed harvesting as well as alum
treatment in Spring Lake. The District is also promoting the Conservation
Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) and supplementing CREP
financially as an incentive to get more landowners to leave buffer strips along
County Ditch 13.
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Tour group at the chemical feed location on County Ditch 13
The ferric-chloride chemical feed system has not been in-place long enough
to obtain accurate data to see if it functioning as expected,
One stop was made at the Creekside Estates development, where Mr.
Nelson pointed out the importance of running drain leads to pervious areas.
He stated that research shows that in new developments, rooftops
encompass a greater amount of impervious area than new roadway
surfaces, He asked that the City work with the District in requiring new
construction gutter leads to be outlet onto grassed areas, which will help limit
runoff volumes.
In summary, the Watershed has multiple projects planned throughout the
district to improve the overall water quality. This has a direct impact on the
water quality of Prior Lake.
See attached for a list of recent project activities by the Watershed District.
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Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District
Recent Project Activities List
Compiled 6/7/2001 for the Lake Advisory Committee Watershed Tour June 9, 2001
Recently Completed Projects (Red Dots)
1. No-Till Drill planter availability program with Scott-SWCD.
2. Highway 13 Treatment Wetland.
3. Iron Addition Treatment System.
4. Desiltation Basin reconstruction.
5. Desiltation Basin sediment removal.
6. Wetland Restorations with the USFW Service.
7. Lakefront Park Information Kiosk with City.
8, "Vortechnics" treatment device with City.
9. Fish Point channel stabilization with City,
1 O. Sand Point Park pond improvements with City.
11. Hwy. 42 Regional Pond with City and County.
12. Shoreline stabilization demonstration with SWCD and City.
13. Jeffers upper pond outlet pipes debris removal.
14, Channel repair at driveway crossing upstream of Pike Lake.
15. Channel repair at Jackson Trail.
16. Channel repair at YMCA.
17. Channel repair at ADC,
18. Channel repair at met Council Interceptor.
19, In-line sedimentation basin upstream of Dean's Lake.
20. Sediment removal - Deans Lake.
21. Deans Lake By-Pass Channel with City of Shakopee and Lower Minn WD.
22. Jeffers property crossing replacement.
23. Cates Lake Outlet Study.
24. Macrophyte Surveys (aquatic plants) Spring and Upper Prior Lake,
25. Sediment Phosphorus Release Rates Studies,
26. Spring Lake Aquatic Plant Management Plan,
Current/On-going Projects (Yellow Dots)
27. Spring Lake Aquatic Plant and Carp Harvesting Project.
28, Spring Lake Sediment Phosphorus Inactivation Project.
29. Filter Strip Program (2 under contract).
30. CREP Promotion/Supplement Program (1 under contract),
31. Priority Acquisition Program.
32. Ducks Wetland Limited wetland restoration.
33. Outlet system JP A negotiations.
34. Outlet box optimization.
35, Ultimate Outlet Channel Project,
36. Hwy 42 Wetland Restoration,
Additional Projects Planned for Next Year (2002) (Blue Dots)
37. County Ditch 13 Stabilization.
Note 2002 efforts also include continuation and expansion of current/on-going projects listed above.
Monitoring (Green Dots)
38. Lower Prior Lake (2 sites), CAMP volunteer assisted.
39. Spring Lake, CAMP volunteer assisted.
40. Pike Lake, CAMP volunteer assisted,
41. Crystal Lake, CAMP volunteer assisted.
42. County Ditch 13 (3 to 5 sites),
43. Buck Lake Tributary.
44. Spring Lake, West Tributary.
45. Additional flow only gauging stations (Spring and Prior Lake Outlets),
46. Fish, Lake, CAMP volunteer assisted.
47. Upper Prior Lake, CAMP volunteer assisted,
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