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<br />Qualifications (cant.) <br /> <br />than 40 watershed lakes and bays of Lake Minnetonka. Wenck used this model to calculate the <br />pollutant load reduction necessary to meet lake water quality goals, and then helped the District <br />develop management programs and capital projects to achieve those load reductions. The model also <br />helps to predict how stormwater management rule changes for future development and redevelopment <br />could impact lake water quality. This plan is not focused exclusively on water quality. Wenck helped <br />the District identify projects to restore streams and wetlands, increase regional infiltration, and <br />conserve important and high-quality habitat. Also identified for each subwatershed are water volume <br />and rate goals, wetland and groundwater strategies, and ecological integrity and natural resources <br />conservation goals. <br /> <br />These projects were compiled into a capital improvement program that factored in continuing <br />maintenance costs as well as inflation to determine the true life-cycle cost f each project. The final <br />piece of the Plan was an analysis of the institutional requirements of the Plan - Wenck analyzed the <br />number of future District employees, work space, and equipment requirements, that full <br />implementation would require. <br /> <br />Minnehaha Creek Watershed District Hydraulic Modeling Expertise <br /> <br />Minnehaha Creek is a unique resource within the Twin <br />Cities Metropolitan Area. Though it drains substantial <br />areas of developed urban and suburban land, it has <br />relatively good water quality due to its headwater lake, <br />Lake Minnetonka. The creek flows 22 miles through <br />five cities before flowing over Minnehaha Falls and <br />discharging to the Mississippi River below Lock and <br />Dam No.1. <br /> <br /> <br />Wenck has designed and built virtually every <br />completed capital improvement in the MCWD water <br />management plan. Many of these improvements have <br />documented performance studies and have won awards. Wenck has trained MCWD staff to perform <br />monitoring activities; provides oversight and data analysis for hydrologic and hydraUlic studies, has <br />performed over 30 models for regional watershed issues. <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />River Mile <br /> <br />Stormwater detention ponds in urbanized subwatersheds <br />proved to reduce peak discharges and stresses in <br />Minnehaha Creek. <br /> <br />T:\0598\OOINonDegradation ProposaI\Qualifications.doc <br /> <br />8 <br /> <br />Wenck completed a comprehensive stream <br />assessment and modeling review for the <br />Creek. Use of the District's model, coupled <br />with knowledge of the creek's stream <br />crossings, storm sewer outfalls, channel <br />obstructions, bank failure areas, and <br />floodplain encroachment, facilitated <br />numerical documentation of existing <br />conditions and set the baseline for ranking <br />problem areas on a watershed scale. The <br />results of this analysis aided in <br /> <br />c,;<~Wenck <br />