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Lino Lakes - Shoreland and Flood Plain Management § 1102.11 WATER SUPPLY AND SEWAGE TREATMENT. (1) Water supply. Any public or private supply of water for domestic purposes must meet or exceed standards for water quality of the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. (2) Sewage treatment. Any premises used for human occupancy must be provided with an adequate method of sewage treatment as follows: (a) Publicly -owned sewer systems must be used in accordance with Chapter 402 of the city code. Any new buildings used for human habitation or human occupancy, including businesses, located on property adjacent to a sewer main, or in a block through which the system extends, shall be connected to the municipal sanitary sewer system. (b) All private sewage treatment systems must meet or exceed the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's standards for individual sewage treatment systems contained in the document titled, "Individual Sewage Treatment Systems Standards, Chapter 7080," as may be amended, a copy of which is hereby adopted by reference and declared to be a part of this chapter. (c) On -site sewage treatment systems must be set back from the ordinary high water level in accordance with the setbacks contained in § 1102.07 of this chapter. (d) All proposed sites for individual sewage treatment systems shall be evaluated in accordance with the criteria in divisions (2)(d)1. - 4. below. If the determination of a site's suitability cannot be made with publicly available, existing information, it shall then be the responsibility of the applicant to provide sufficient soil borings and percolation tests from on -site field investigations. Evaluation criteria: 1. Depth to the highest known on calculated ground water table or bedrock; 2. Soil conditions, properties and permeability; 3. Slope; and 4. The existence of lowlands, local surface depressions, and rock outcrops. (e) Nonconforming sewage treatment systems shall be regulated and upgraded in accordance with § 1102.08(3) of this chapter. (Ord. 04 -95, passed 4 -10 -1995) § 1102.12 SUBDIVISION /PLATTING PROVISIONS. (1) Land suitability. Each lot created through subdivision, including planned unit developments over-laysauthorized under § 1102.13 of this chapter, must be suitable in its natural state for the proposed use with minimal alteration. Suitability analysis by the City Council shall