At the first White Bear Lake City Council meeting of the new year, the mayor and City Council designate representatives to various organizations of which the city is a member.
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In the heart of winter, crews are reshaping a murky ditch in northern Ramsey County into a more natural stream full of twists and turns and, eventually, clearer water.
Crews are more than halfway through a process scientists call meandering, or re-sculpting about 2,000 feet of Lambert Creek, also called Ditch 14, in Vadnais Heights.
The goal is to improve water quality and natural habitat in that stretch of creek, which is on city property, said Dawn Tanner, a conservation biologist and program development coordinator with the Vadnais Lake Area Watershed Management Organization (VLAWMO), which is overseeing the project. The new curves will slow the water speed, allowing more sediment to settle out of it and improve water quality, she said.