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P- <br />EXHIBIT D-15 Additional wording on page 4C-8 of <br />Basic Sewage Treatment Concepts and Principles <br />The development paradox is that if municipal services are extended into rural zones, the cost of these <br />services taxes the land to the point that development is required. Particularly in the case of sewers, <br />even if extended to existing pockets of development "to solve a pollution problem", inflation, <br />topography and sparse settlement combine to send cost skyrocketing. Such costs can be paid only <br />by increasing development, which in turn causes density increases, loss of wetlands and increasing <br />levels of storm water nutrient pollution. This spiral effect results in statistically even greater levels <br />of pollution than the original sewage "problem" might have been. While extendine sewer service to <br />suburban and rural neighborhoods may in and of itself allow for increased housing density, this <br />approach would ignore the dangers of destroying the environmental balance of Lake Minnetonka due <br />to the secondary effects of urban stormwater runoff. For example, Eugene Hickok's 1973 Storm <br />Water Impact Statement identifies up to ten times more phosphorus alone from urban storm water <br />runoff than from Orono's existing rural land use.