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February 6, 1978 Telephone 473735' CATY of 01RD'AjO Post Office Box 66 • Crystal Bay, Minnesota 55323 • Municipal Offie= On the North Shore of Lake Minnetonka Representative Robert L. Searles 575 North Ferndale Road Wayzata, Minnesota 55391 Subject: Orono -Long Lake Interceptor Dear Bob: I attended a meeting Thursday morning at the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission with Bernie Harrington to discuss our concerns - about the Orono -Long Lake interceptor as it relates to the MUSA line and the City's Comprehensive Land Use Planning. Karl Burandt, of the Metropolitan Council staff, was also present and informed us that he was drafting a staff review of the Orono -Long Lake interceptor to be presented to the Physical Development Committee in the near future.. During the course of the meeting, it became clear that the intercepto pipe itself had some additional hydraulic capicity that would allow_ for future expansion of the sewer service area within the City of - Orono. The pump stations that are presently designed for the interceptor will only handle the flows projected*by the City from that part of our City which is presently sewered and which we intend. to include in the urbran'service area, but the pipe itself could handle additional flows if larger pumps were installed at a later date. As you know, on June 13 of 1977, Sandy Dean of the Metropolit& Council staff recommended to the Physical Development Committee that the MUSA line within Orono be moved in accordance with our Comprehens. Planning but that recommendation has been withdrawn because of the objections of Mr. Dougherty of the Waste Control Commission in that the MUSA line must be consistent with the Metropolitan sewer service area. The City's position has always been that the Orono -Long Lake intercep. was brought in to Orono for purposes of removing the effluent from :*the Orono and Long Lake sewer plants and not to provide a catalyst forcing urbanization of.rural Orono to a level beyond which Lake Minnetonka could tolerate from the standpoint of higher phosphorus content of the storm water runoff.