Grant award

We applied for another grant this past spring from the city of Champlin for water preservation and natural habitat.  We are happy to report that for the 2nd year we were rewarded with a grant!  This years grant was for $500.00.  It is deposited in our association account to be used as we see fit for our pond preservation or related items.  The grant committee also started something new this year in that they came to our site and reviewed our progress with our representative Paul Harris.  This was also video taped for the local TV station and put on record with the grant committee to show others what can be accomplished with this type of grant.

Pond update

As many of you have noticed our pond has lowered quite considerably in the past couple of weeks.  I had a meeting with the city officials on this topic on Monday August 27th.  The information that we were given is as follows:

• The water table for the City of Champlin is usually 20′
• The current water table is just below 18′
• This effects all areas of the city including our pond
• The area has been in drought conditions for the past 2 years and it has started to catch up to us
• The pond has been high this summer due to the construction of Hayden Lake Road and the construction company pumping ground water into the pond during construction
• Now that construction has completed the water table is going back to its normal location
• What is needed to solve this problem is more rain and a big snow fall this winter to “reset” the water table

We will continue to monitor this situation and pass information along when we have it.