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Mon., May 1, 1961 ST. PAUL DISPATCH 63 rk -- Lake Elmo Sets HearingIsl - -----On Waterworks Proposal. L a k e Elmo's proposed tive from the state health canceled the election, he said, $180,000 municipal water sys- department. "but we don't do business tem will be aired at a public Villagers will go to the polls that way." - - - - - - hearing at 8 May 9 to ballot for a second The clerk said the coon- - ---- SUBURBAN p. in. Wednes- time on the proposal, al- cil will take no immediate -- - --- - day in the vil- though a new state law no action on the water propos- LAKE ELMO lage Veterans longer requires a referendum al unless it passes. - - -- _- of Foreign on water systems. If the election fails, the NEWS Wars hall. Donald Mehsikomer, clerk, proposed system won't be re- Speakers will said the special election was considered again until next include Chester Wilson, for- called before the legislature spring — and only if the vot-- mer state conservation com- removed the vote require- ing is close enough to war- _ missioner, and a representa- ment. The council could have r a n t reconsideration, Meh- -� sikomer said. - - --- The special vote was - scheduled after the council - — - - — reviewed laboratory reports on 49 private wells tested for - - - - - - -- - -- - contamination in December, — 1959, and retested in March. - _ -- - - - - In the first test, 34 wells ` -- -- had more than 1 part per million (ppm) of nitrate -- - - nitrogen. In the retest, the _ number had climbed to 36. Such readings, according to . the state health department, indicate sewage contamina- tion. f -_ - --- _ _ _ - - - _ _ An additional 14 wells were £ included in the March test4on {; the owners' request. Only four were below the 1-ppm -- - - - - - - standard. The proposed system would -- - - - -- --- be financed by assessments — - of $4 a front foot, a $100 con- - - - -- -- - nection charge and a 10-mill — tax levy. Last Nov. 8 it was ; defeated, 152 to 141.