The Minneapolis storm water sewer system: a map

The link at the bottom of this post takes you to a PDF file about the city's storm water sewer system. It's fascinating reading, or at least more interesting than you'd expect, given the subject.

Go to the fifth page of the document (pages are identified as 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, etc.) for an inventory of the city system that mentions 16 ponds. So, 'Where are they?' you ask?

Go to the sixth page (4-6) for the map that shows where the stormwater sewers empty into area lakes and rivers. If you look closely at the map, the 16 ponds are in gold. There are several on the northwest corner of the Hiawatha Golf Course, some to the south of Lakes Nokomis and Calhoun, one on the north end of Sibley Park, one at 44th and Oakland, one at what I think is 42nd St. and Bloomington, one down south to the west of 35W just north of Highway 62 and one each in Northeast and Northwest Minneapolis. Also a tiny one northeast of Lake Harriet.

Information is right here.

Other recent storm sewer work in Minneapolis

Here's a look at what the city has done for capital improvement projects from 2005 onward, including stormwater sewer projects. None of them appear to include building a pond, as in the proposed project at 43rd St. E. and 19th Ave. S.

If nothing else, it gives a sense of how the project in our neighborhood fits among some of the others. I'm looking for a complete map of all city stormwater runoff ponds and hope to post it soon.

For 2008 projects go here.
For 2007 projects go here.
For 2006 projects go here.
For 2005 projects go here.

City website on the drainage pond

Click here for the city website describing the drainage pond project along the south side of 43rd St. E. between 19th Ave. S. and 21st Ave. S.

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