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shift to urban uses. <br />The City has no intent to further allow for urbanization of <br />the rural zones, and rural development with private sewage <br />treatment systems and water wells on 2 acre and 5 acre lots <br />continues to be a viable and attractive alternative to the <br />denser, urbanized housing being developed in municipalities <br />immediately to the east of Orono. <br />Regarding rural sewage treatment policies, the City <br />continues to strictly control the design and construction of on­ <br />site sewage treatment systems to strict prefornance standards. <br />Additionally, each new rural residential development continues to <br />be required to provide full site evaluation of each individual <br />proposed building lot, so that the initial and future sewage <br />treatment needs of each home site can be met on that individual <br />site. The City has adopted the Minnesota Pollution Control <br />Agency's Chapter 7080 regulations, with minor revisions which <br />will allow Orono's more restr i _• t.ve on-site sewage treatment <br />provisions to prevail. <br />C. Surface Water Drainage Districts <br />Orono continues to develop under guidelines of the Orono <br />Surface Water Management Plan as indicated in the 1980 <br />Comprehensive Plan. Wetland preservation remains a primary goal <br />and policy of the City, providing for natural storage and <br />filtration necessary to purify storm water runoff. This policy <br />is consistent with Orono's intended rural land use planning <br />philosophy. <br />D. Existing Sewage Treatnent Facilities <br />Significant efanges to metropolitan facilities, municipal <br />facilities, and individual sewage treatment systems have occured <br />since the 1980 Comprehensive Plan was adopted, as follows: <br />1. Metropolitan Facilities. <br />A. Completion of the Orono/Long Lake Interceptor <br />in 1980 resulted in the elimination of nutrient-rich sewer <br />effluent outflows to Lake Minnetonka from the Orono and Long Lake <br />sewage treatement plants. Each treatment plant was replaced with <br />a M.W.C.C. owned and operated pump station. <br />4 <br />I !