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<br />The mission of the City of Lake Elmo is to provide planned, quality public services consistent with the City’s <br />character in a fiscally responsible manner in partnership with our community. <br />The City of Lake Elmo | 3880 Laverne Ave N | Lake Elmo | MN 55042 <br />• Preparing, enacting, and enforcing a residential irrigation ban is so under-inclusive <br />that it is an arbitrary and unlawful condition on appropriations of groundwater. An <br />arbitrary condition cannot be reasonably necessary for the “safety and welfare of <br />the people of the state.” <br />The administrative law judge in the case further concluded, “The longer-term solution to <br />the overuse of local groundwater supplies and lower levels of White Bear Lake, is to convert <br />cities in the Northeast metro to surface water sources – as quickly as practicable. These <br />conversions will not be simple or inexpensive; but they are necessary.” <br />Several public water suppliers and the plaintiffs in the District Court case have appealed <br />the ALJ order to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. This case is currently in progress. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />