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1 <br />UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL LEASED WIRE STII - - - <br />Lake .Elmo Votes <br />$180,800 Bonds <br />For Water System <br />- - A $180,000 bond issue for a wa- <br />ter system was approved by Lake <br />Elmo citizens at a referendum - <br />held Tuesday. The vote was 134 <br />- - - - to 127. - <br />Last Nov. 8, the proposal lost - - <br />in a general election .vote by 152 <br />- to 151. - <br />- Under a new state law, Tues- <br />day's referendum was not need <br />-- - - ed, but it had been called before — - - - <br />the. legislature adopted the law. <br />The proposed water works will - <br />_ be financed by assessments of $4 <br />a front foot, a $100 connection <br />-- - charge and a 10-mill tax levy. <br />The village council ordered the <br />- — referendum after two tests of 49 - - - - - - - — <br />wells 'for water contamination. <br />Forty-one wells showed .some im- <br />provement between the tests, but _- <br />eight were in worse condition the <br />- - second time. Only 12 wells passed - - - the tests, having less than one <br />part per million of nitrate nitro- - <br />-- -- gen. - - - - - - - - --- <br />