How to Look Up Your MSD Easement

This guide is intended to help residents locate easement- related documents for their property using publicly available records.

The Accela Citizen Access Portalis MSD’s platform for tracking projects and correspondence. It is all public domain, and this is updated by MSD directly. This is a great tool to familiarize yourself with now, before the storm sewer repair project planned for Bellerive Acres begins. Easements can also be viewed on the portal.

The database includes a variety of public records related to the project. This post focuses specifically on identifying easement documents.

You will need to register for an account.

Click “Register for an Account in the top right corner. Register as “Requestor“.

After your account is created, you will need to select the “MSD“ tab. See red square in top left.

You can then search for projects using the light green search bar. See red rectangle in top right.

To find the Bellerive Acres Improvement Plan search ““ 22MSD-00490” .

Once on the home page you can scroll down and hit “More Details” then “Related Contacts“ to see the contact info of all the parties involved.

Under the “Record Info” tab, select “Attachments”.

On page 5 you can find “22MSD-00490DRARRPLANS.pdf“ and view the final approved sewer improvement plans. These have been conditionally approved.

Easements can be viewed by selecting “Record Info” and then “Related Records”. Easements that are split between properties may be organized vertically. See red circle in example.

Easements can also be searched by entering the record number directly into the light green search box at the top right.

These are examples of easement document titles as they appear in the system, to help identify relevant records.

Once on your easement record, you can see all documents under attachments. The most recent will be the draft plat and the revisions currently being made.

Now that your account has been created, you can locate the documents directly related to the city project and your own property.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to MSD for assistance with account creation (that’s how I figured it out- they were happy to help).

If you have questions about specific documents or project details, the City can provide the most accurate and up-to-date information. Find the Bellerive Citizen Comment Form HERE