03-10-1980 Council Minutes - pgs misnumbered

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Pa�e 24 • POPHAM , HAIK, SCHNOBRICH, KAUFMAN b� DOTY, LTD. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency March 6 , 1980 � MWCC. The information contained in the former Harza study does not support the installation of any pipe because of the I adverse effect on the environment . The mayor noted that in fact in 1975 , the Metrpolitan Council proposed moving the MSSR line in closer to Lake Minnetonka but for some reason thereafter they decided to leave the MSSR line as is and allow the MUSA line to expand out to the MSSR line by staged growth. Mayor Van Nest then noted that it has been his experience that the two acre sites with septic systems are in demand as part of ' the housing market and that those lots in fact will sell for I a price similar to the sale of a 14 ,000 square foot lot in the City of Plymouth, which lots require hard surface roads , � storm sewers , municipal water and sanitary sewer with the result- ing adverse impacts upon the school system and all municipal facilities . The mayor indicated that the area in Maple Plain that is being sewered is only one square mile and yet the pro- posal is to build a pipe five miles in length across the rural area of the northwest corner of the Lake Minnetonka Watershed just to service that one square mile. This is an example of leap-frog d�velopment at its worst. He noted that the popula- tion projections to the year 2000 in the service area of the Maple Plain plant is 2600 people and now there are only 1492 people . The mayor indicated that the MWCC says that there is a discharge of 270 ,000 gallons per day and with less than 1500 people , it is hard to believe the discharge is that high unless there is a bad infiltration problem with that plant . Zf that is the case , then the infiltration problem should be solved instead of creating more environmental problems with the construction of an interceptor. Alan Larsen then stated that the infiltration problem is bad at that plant and that Maple Plain will have to fix that infil- tration problem in the future with or without the installation of an interceptor. Mayor Van Nest then showed on the map , Exhibit C � where the present Maple Plain plant was located and that presently that plant is taking sewage effluent from the Crow River Watershed and discharging it into the Minnehaha Creek Watershed. The mayor noted that the city and everyone in the Minnehaha Creek Watershed has an environmental rights act complaint to force the MWCC to take this effluent out of our watershed and discharge it into the watershed district from which it came. Moreover ,