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. . . . . . ,:.. . � Page 26 � � . POPHAM , HAIK, SCHNOBRICH , KAUFMAN & DOTY, LTD. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency , March 6 , 1980 clear that the analysis was faulty. Alan Larsen then stated that if one could find closer sites to the existing plant and arrange for some sort of lease or acquisition of the property, then it would be possible at a lesser cost to use on-land spray irrigatior. . Alan stated that he would find out what the dis- charge standards would be for discharging the effluent into the Crow River Watershed from which watershed the effluent came in the first place. Mayor Van Nest then reviewed the plan on land disposal ' s esti- mate of cost for buildings , contingent fees , engineering fees and land acquisition and indicated that those fees appeared to be extraordinarily high. He noted that the cost of phosphor- ous for farmers as fertilizer will double this year and that the phosphorous is a valuable product especially when it is located in the middle of an agricultural area. Yet the plan proposes to pump this phosphorous 30 miles away to be dis- charged into the Minnesota River at great expense to society. Alan Larsen stated that he agreed that more analysis needs to be done concerning the land application alternative and that he is responsible presently for the Paynesville project which he thinks is cost effective . The mayor stated that the City of Orono is opposed to any inter- ceptor being built across the City of Orono as well as anywhere in the rural northwest corner of Lake Minnetonka Watershed. Bruce Malkerson explained the problems the city had in the past when the MWCC was acquiring right-of-way and the easements themselves purported to grant to people in rural zones the right to hook up six or more homes to the interceptor. These are among the problems which will develop with the installation of any interceptor across the rural area of Orono. Mayor Van Nest then reviewed appendix D in the June , 1979 report and showed how the estimates by the consultant showed that there would be 2 , 700 pounds o� phosphorous discharged by the plant and it was estimated that 707 would reach Jennings Bay for a total of 840 kilograms per year, with the remaining 30� being assimulated. The mayor noted that appendix D is based on esti- mates only and not actual measurement. Yet in the prior Harza study, actual measurements were used via a gauge in Painter Creek where it discharges into Jennings Bay and at the discharge point of the Maple Plain sewage plant , and it showed that there was