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pain t aou ree ato fm water p ollution, methods for collection and treatment of non-point source <br />stormwater runoff pollutants are extremely expensive and often impractical. <br />LAKE POLLUTIO\’ <br />NON-PONT SOURCi <br />INCREASED HARD COVER <br />MORE RUN-OFF <br />MORE POLLUTANTS FROM <br />LAWN FERTILIZATION, <br />VEHICLE exhaust , <br />OE-ICEING, AND STREET <br />SWEEPING <br />LAKE POLLUTION <br />PONT SOURCE a <br />IMMINENENT <br />HEALTH HAZARD <br />LAND SUBDIVISION <br />TO SPREAD UNIT <br />COSTS OF ASSESS­ <br />MENTS <br />ALTERNATIVES STUDIED <br />SEWER EXTENSION <br />■ ORDERED <br />PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS <br />POSE finanoal burden <br />DUE ro SPECIAL CONSTRUC­ <br />TION IN wetland terrain , <br />LARGE LOT ACREAGE AND <br />SCATTERED DEVELOPMENT <br />THF. URBANIZATION SPIRAL <br />Illustrates the Development Paradox that faces Orono <br />if municipal serv ices are extended into rural areas. <br />The development paradox is that if municipal services are extended into rural zones, the cost of these <br />serv'ices ta.\es the land to the point that development is required. Particularly in the case of sewers, <br />even if extended to e.xisting 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 developmenL w hich in turn causes density increases, loss of w etlands 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. For example, Eugene Hickok's <br />1973 Storm Water Impact Statement identifies up to ten times more phosphorus alone from urban <br />storm water runoff than from Orono's existing rural land use. <br />CMP 6-10 <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1