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August 17 , 1992
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Harren
175 Landmark Drive
Long Lake, Minnesota 55356
Re: Municipal Sewer
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Harren:
This letter is to clarify the City's position regarding your sewer
service.
During the initial sewer project planning, it was determined that the
Kyle property (185 Landmark Drive) was less than 2 acres and had a
failing septic system. That fact and the mere geographical location
in relation to the entire project area, led to an early conclusion to
serve your immediate neighborhood.
In the normal situation, a sewer lateral would have been constructed
within Landmark Drive, with stubs to serve your .property, the Evans'
vacant lot, and an extension along Kyle's driveway outlot to serve
their property. This lateral would have served your property at the
southeast boundary but would have been extremely expensive to
construct due to replacement of your private road. Further, the
extension to the Kyle's along their outlot would be similarly
expensive due to the extreme depth.
In order to reduce the cost of the project (and therefore the cost to
the property owners) it was determined that the lateral would be
constructed along the old driveway along the west side of Evans'
building site. This lateral would end at Kyle's property line and
stubs would be placed to ser.ve all three properties. Your stub would
have been at the southwest boundary of your property.
Subsequent to this plan, you initiated discussions with various City
staff and consultants regarding the extreme expense of connection to a
stub at this location on your property. The main problem factors
included having to follow a connection route northwest around the
existing poo1, then soutti through the hill to get to the southwest
corner. The location of your well was a factor which forced the
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August 17, 1992
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connection to go around the pool, but which was not otherwise a
limiting factor. The State Health Department requires that the .
setback between a well and an air tested sewer line must be a minimum
of 20'. You suggested that a more feasible and less expensive
connection route would be around the east side of your driveway to the
southeast corner of your property. It appears your connection could
take either a southwest or southeast route and not affect your well or
neighboring wells.
City staff and consultants then investigated the feasibility of
extending a stub to your southeast lot corner, and found that such a
connection was very feasible, via an additional 120' extension of a
lateral already proposed within Gardner's driveway which served
Gardner and Anderson. A stub would be extended from that lateral to
your southeast property boundary.
In your April 29th letter you suggested an alternate route along the
portion of Outlot D located west of Landmark Drive, but there is no
30'-40' clear outlot/easement along the west side of Outlot D. In
fact, as the attached road plan indicates, the pavement abuts the west
line of Outlot D for a good distance and there is a 20' clear area
east of the road in which sewer might be constructed, but this sti 11
leaves the problem of having to replace a large portion of the cul-de-
sac and cutting through the tiill to serve Kyle's.
The City would be responsible for obtaining all necessary easements
across adjacent properties to bring a stub to your property boundary
from the east. The cost of providing service to your southeast
boundary would be absorbed within the general sewer project and would
not increase your assessment.
During an executive session at their July 27th meeting, the City
Council reviewed your concerns and the various connection options.
Council directed that staff proceed on the basis that your property
wi 11 be served by a stub extended to the southeast boundary of your
property. A copy of the staff inemo from that meeting is attached.
I hope this helps to clari�y the City's position on providing sewer
service to your property. We can discuss these issues further at our
meeting on the 26th.
Sincerely�,
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Ron Moorse
City Administrator
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