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INTRODUCTION This Comprehensive Sewer Policy Plan (CSPP) is a refinement and updated version of th e 19?7 Orono's 1980 Comprehensive Sewer Policy Plan pr ep ared by Orono and submitted for interim MWee and Metro p ol itan Counci l review, and reflects a number of changes and updates of that plan . This Plan reflects th e pri or eommitments and comments responds directly to of the Metropolitan Council's December 1996 Water Resources Management Policy Plan bv focusing on watershed management to control pollution from both point and non-point sources. This Plan also defines Orono's future intent regarding the location of the City's Urban and Rural Service Areas and the Metropolitan Sewer Service Area as defined hv the MUSA. This Plan reflects the final location and design criteria of th e Orono *Lon g Lake Intercep to r as const ructed in 1979. current and planned service areas and capacities for the various portions of the Metro interceptor system which serve Orono and its surrounding communities. This Plan is prepared and presented for three distinct, interrelated purposes: 1. The CSPP is intended to be a management tool for City officials,City staff, and other parties involved in management, operations and policy decisions concerning sewage collection and/or treatment in Orono. For this purpose, the CSPP contains gvial and policy statements consistent with the overall planning objectives of the City; it contains an inventory of existing facilities, capacities and design parameters; it reviews environmental and land use .considerations; and it includes plans for capital improvements, administration and enforcement. 2. The CSPP is the sewer service clement of Orono’s Community Management Plan, designed to address and conform to all the applicable provisions of the Metropolitan Council's nevelopi Hewf Framewarit Guide Regional Blucnrint and Water Resources Management Plan. For this purpose, the CSPP’s inventory' and planning considerations include sufficient detail to explain how Orono's plans and facilities arc consistent with those of neighboring municipalities and with the Metropolitan facilities of the region as a whole. This purpose and content is consistent with the City's Community Management Plan, with the requirements of the 1977 Mandatory Metropolitan Land Planning Act and with the local "systems statement" issued to Metropolitan Council's Water Resources Management Plan Orono b y the Metropolita n Ceunetl. 3. The CSPP is th e compre h ensive sewer p lan required b y the Metrop olitan S ewer Act; designed to advise the Metropolitan Waste Control Commwaion Council of Orono's detailed needs for metropolitan facilities capacity. For this purpose, the CSPP includes a determination of Orono's ultimate Sewer Service Area, the anticipated staging of expansion of the Sewer Service Area, and a review of the expected flow rates from within that area. The CSPP also includes discussion of the plans, programs and controls in effect to assure adequate, permanent, trouble free on-site sewage treatment outside of the Sewer Service Area. I I I CMP 6-2