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• <br /> �, Cit� of ORONO <br /> RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL <br /> � NO. ��� <br /> • - • • <br /> l. Capacity for Orono ' s Sewer Study Areas was already <br /> designed into the Orono-Long Lake Interceptor <br /> before the adoption of the 1979 WQMPP. No new <br /> capacity was required. <br /> 2 . WQMPP page 11' includ�s statements and polic�es <br /> directly ac3dressing the situation in Study Ar�a ;#2 <br /> and in comn3.ete accord with the goals and policies <br /> in Orono ' s CMP. <br /> a) "Small pockets o� urb�r density now exist in <br /> the rural area, particularly near lakes. " <br /> b) "A variety �f properly designed, localized <br /> sew�ge treatment methods. . .may well be r�eeded <br /> to handle the pollutants created by these <br /> pockets of development. "' <br /> c) "The prir.cipal purpose. . . . is to abate existing <br /> pollution and meet water quality standards, not <br /> to provide an impetus for additional urban- <br /> type devel.opment. " <br /> • 3 . If a package treatment plan4 had been constructed <br /> instead of the interceptor connection, there would <br /> have been no question that Area #2 could retain its <br /> rural designation in complete conformance with WQMPP <br /> Policy 12 . Yet intez•ceptor capacity was availab�e, <br /> was more cost effective, and has less pollution <br /> potential for Lake i�innetonka. <br /> 4 . WQMPP Policy 11 states that metropolitan sewer ex- <br /> pansion is allowed .in the rural service area "in <br /> accordance with the schedule for expansion set forth <br /> in the system plan and as specified in the local <br /> plan. " System capacity was available and is noted <br /> as part of the sewer flow c�iven in Orono' s system <br /> statement. Orono' s CPdF and CSPP provide for the <br /> connection, and even ix�cluded a schedule {before 1985) . <br /> Also, Policy 11, says sewer expansion is allowed, <br /> it does not say that urban service area expansion <br /> is required. <br /> D. Along with the Metropolican Council staff, Orono is also <br /> anxi�us to resolve this concern to avoid misinterpretation, <br /> ancl to �void undesireable precedent elsewhere in Orono, or <br /> at any ether location in the Metropolitan area. <br /> i. It is certainly not the policy of Orono to suggest <br /> indescriminate extension of inetropolitan sewer service <br /> • into the rural service area. Orono agrees with th� <br /> Metropolitan Council that urban development and urban <br /> services should :�e concentrated with the existing <br /> urban service area. <br /> i n ,. r � ^� <br />