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• Page 38 ' s�. Metropolitan ��7aste Control Commission April 10 , 1980 Page Five The City of Orono, through its council and staff , has studied this problem for over eight years , and the city has decided that as part of its comprehensive land use plan to prohibit this sort of urbanization in part because of this adverse environmental effect on the watershed and Lake r7innetonka . � This rural land use approach is consistent with the compre- hensive plans of the cities of Medina, Independence , Minnetrista and Orono. To drive an interceptor across this open area is totally inconsistent with the comprehensive land use plans of the cities, �ahich land use plans are adopted by those cities pursuant to Minnesota Statutes , �462. 01 , et seq . The PCA and the MWCC have learned that the infiltration and inflow problems in the Maple Plain Sewer System are bad and that the infiltration and inflow problem will have to be corrected in the future by the city, 'I'hat correction does not necessitate the installation of an intercepto�, The City of Maple Plain can apply for infiltration monies to help solve that problem not�. The I & I analysis can be completed to determine what the flo�v figures will be once the infiltration problem is solved. Once that problem is solved , then there is no need to expand the plant or to construct an interceptor. As indi- cated previously, the 201 plan report shows that by spending just $30 ,000 , the phosphorous discharge can be removed so that the plant will be in compliance with tl�e required standards , at a far less cost in money and effect on the environment. There is a need tc have this infornation available before tax- payers' dollars are wasted. Moreover, it may be that the phosphorous removed can be used in a way to benefit society. The cost of phosphorous for farmers as fertilizer will double this year and that phosphorous ' is a valuable product especially when it is located in the mid- dle of an agricultural area such as the City of Maple Plain. A plan which proposes to pump this phosphorous 30 miles away to be discharged into the Minnesota River at great expense to society just does not make sense. Phosphorous is a depleting resource which should be recycled by innovative techniques for a product for the benefit of society. We have recently received a copy of the Regional Policy Plan on Water Quality Management which the Metropolitan Council adopted on March 9 , 1979 . Chairman Charles Weaver stated in