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' � RE�ULAR rZEETING OF THE ORONO COUNCIL, JP,NUARY 9 , 1978 Page 5 Council Meeting - January 9, 1978 PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH (Continued) P�4r. Richard Raiche, realtor, proposed this property to the City Council for future City offices. PSayor Van Nest commented that this was presented last fall and staff and City Council decided not to pursue this area for City buildings. P�ayor Van Nest r.loved, Butler seconded, not to consider purchase of the Peace Lutheran Church property for City buildings. P�iotion, Ayes (5) - Nays (0) . Mr. Alan Olson, Assistant Building & Zoning BIG ISLAND Aclministrator, reviewed his letter to P•Zr. VETERAPI'S CAMP Emil Berg, Big Island Veteran' s Camp, dated December 27, 1977, which states: This letter is meant to be a review of the discussion between yourself and staff from Orono and �he= 24innesota Pollution Control Agency at a meeting held at the Orono City offices on December 21, 1977. The subject of the meeting was the existing garbage dump maintained by the camp along the northwest shoreline. Your notes and cor►ments indicate that the dumping is a continuation of a 50-year practice, that the camp operates for two and one-half months each year and feeds up to 150 persons at a time, that all supplies are transported to the island in the camp boat, that you have periodically - contracted for a dozer to be barged to the island to bury the dump, that "animals" scavange there, and that you wish to avoid unnecessary expenses or changes in camp routine as much may threaten the camp' s continued operation. The position of the City and the Psinnesota Pollution Control Agency is as follows: State statute and local ordinance prohibit continued use of any open dump without a P�innesota Pollution Control Agency Permit, regardless of extenuating circumstances. The P4innesota Pollution Control Agency will likely not issue any landfill permit for your location, particularly not within the Orono and Department of Natural Resources conservation area. Al1 new garbage, cans, bottles, paper, etc. must be kept in sanitary closed containers and trans- ported to the mainland for weekly or biweekly collection by a recognized garbage service. The existinq dump must be cleaned up or properl� covered under supervision of the City. P4innesota (Continued) - _ ..r___:_. �.: - - _.