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WHEREAS, all of the private residential welts in the WCLE Area are located <br />downstream from the source of contamination and draw water from the same <br />aquifers; and <br />WHEREAS, the Minnesota Department of Health has determined that the <br />seating of the private wells within the WCLE Area wit[: <br />A. Remove the need to monitor multiple private welts whose future uses <br />are unclear. <br />B. Prevent the further spread of PFCs in or between the affected aquifers <br />from poorly constructed or failing welts. <br />C. Remove pumping of numerous welts as one of the complicating factors in <br />predicting ground water flow from the Washington County Landfill and <br />also predicting movement of the contaminates. <br />D. Stop the movement of PFCs from the ground water into the environment <br />(PFCs do not volatilize, so any PFCs pumped from a private welt will be <br />reintroduced into the soil and ultimately back into the ground water). <br />E. Minimize minor human exposures through other pathways (soil <br />gardening, swimming pools) from using contaminated water., even water <br />with PFCs below health based value levels). <br />F. Prevent the possibility of future cross connection and contaminations of <br />public water supply from do it yourself plumbers. <br />G. Eliminate the cost to the homeowner of maintaining and operating and <br />ultimately seating their well. <br />H. Eliminate liability concerns at the time of future property transfer. <br />WHEREAS, the WCLE Area will soon be part of an expanded format Special Well <br />Construction Area which may require, under statute, that the existence of the well be <br />disclosed at property transfer; and <br />WHEREAS, the seating of some, but not all of the welts, in the WCLE Area will <br />increase the likelihood of contamination in the unseated wells; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of Lake Elmo has obtained a 3M community grant which will <br />allow the City to extend the City water service to serve the WCLE Area and to connect <br />the parcels within the WCLE Area to the City water system (the "Water Improvement <br />Project") without the necessity of specialty assessing Water Improvement Project <br />costs to the parcels within the WCLE Area; and <br />F) <br />