03-10-1980 Council Minutes - pgs misnumbered

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Page 22 ' POPHAM , HAIK, SCHNOBRICH, KAUFMAN S� DOTY, LTD. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency March 6 , 1980 facilities plan would reflect that reco�nendation in the 208 study. The city was very surprised when in November of 1979 , a review of the 201 draft showed that the reco�nendation was then for some type of interceptor through the rural area of Orono. IMayor Van Nest then reviewed the map attached hereto as Exhibit � A dated March � 1979 , which shows the MWCC' s Metropolitan Sewer ! Service region line which follows generally the watershed line in this area of Hennepin County. He indicated that it was his understanding that the MWCC wanted to promote urbanization all the way out to the MSSR line. Mayor Van Nest then reviewed the map showing the actual watershed boundaries attached hereto . as Exhibit B � which map clearly shows that the service area of Maple Plain plant as located thereon is outside of the Lake . Minnetonka Watershed and is , in fact , in the Crow River Water- shed. Mayor Van Nest stated that the MWCC never should have extended the MSSR line out to include the rural northwest corner of the Lake Minnetonka Watershed and certainly not beyond the Lake Minnetonka Watershed to include areas and a sewer plant which served a different watershed. Mayor Van Nest then reviewed the proposed Orono map in its comprehensive sewer plan showing Orono ' s MUSA line which the Metropolitan Council and Metropolitan Waste Control Commission said would be acceptable since it was up to the local unit of government to determine the location of the MUSA line . Mayor Van Nest showed how this MUSA line conformed with the urbanization of the city and the location of the existing interceptors and the new interceptor recently installed around the lake to remove the Orono and Long Lake treatment plants from discharging into the watershed. Mayor Van Nest then explained the history of the proposed interceptor by the MWCC which would have gone through the rural sections of Orono and explained how that proposed gravity line was changed to a force main line to be constructed adjacent to Lake Minnetonka. Mayor Van Nest stated that if this area of the watershed becomes urbanized, then the phosphorous loading wi11 be greater and the adverse impact on the lake will be greater than the amount of phosphorous and adverse impact which is now attributable to the Maple Plain • plant with its present level of phospherous discharge. The mayor noted that once sewer is available and has to be paid for , then dense development of upwards to four units per acre follows with the resulting adverse effect on the environment .