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MAYOR <br />1 Blescner <br />COUNCIL <br />Jim LaValle <br />Rick Montour <br />Barbara Allan <br />John Keis <br />515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117-1600 ADMINISTRATOR <br />(651) 766 -4029 / FAX: (651) 766 -4048 Joel R. Hanson <br />www. c i.little- Canada. mn. us <br />March 9, 2006 <br />Ms. Dianne Mandernach <br />Commissioner of Health <br />State of Minnesota <br />Freeman Building <br />625 Robert Street North <br />Minneapolis, MN 55164 -0975 <br />Dear Ms. Mandernach: <br />We are writing to you to indicate our support for the Water System Interconnect Project, <br />which would provide an alternate supply of finished drinking water between the <br />Minneapolis Water and the Saint Paul Regional Water Services systems. <br />Saint Paul Regional Water Services provides our municipality with safe, reliable drinking <br />water and has done so for many years. They operate a well - designed, efficiently operated <br />and internally redundant system. However, they are not totally protected from natural or <br />manmade disasters. The likelihood of such and incident extremely remote but the effects <br />of a long -term interruption would be dramatic. We are one of 20 metropolitan cities that <br />the Saint Paul and Minneapolis systems serve. Over 25% of the population in the State <br />of Minnesota relies on these systems to provide an uninterrupted supply of water for their <br />everyday needs. <br />We express our strong support for the State of Minnesota Department of Health's request <br />for $10 million in State bonding. <br />Sincerely, <br />William Blesener <br />Mayor <br />cc: St. Paul Regional Water Services <br />