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LAKE ELM CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 6-5-84 Page 4 Engineer informed the Council that the percolation tests have been submitted and they are adequate to put in a mound type system. As this application received detailed discussion at the May 15, 1984 Council meeting, the following action was taken. M/S/P Fraser/Mazzara - To deny the request from David Alford for a shoreland permit and variances (lot size, lot width, structure setback from OHW, and structure setback from road) at 8080 Hill Trail. (Motion carried 5-0) E. Dick Murray - Update regarding the water levels on Lake Jane. Murray discussed a letter from Allan Dornfeld which responded to the City's letter addressing VBWD's proposal to pump water to Eagle Point Lake and City Park Pond. Murray stated that VBWD has no authority under 1005 to do anything other than pump to City Park Pond. Even though the petition from the City said "solve the problem on Lake Jane", the public hearing addressed and finally chose the option of pumping to City Park Pond. Therefore, VBWD has been advised by their attorney they do not have the option to do anything other than pump to City Park Pond. To pump to Eagle Point would require that the dam at the outlet of Eagle Point be raised quite a bit in order to store a significant amount of water and also meet the dam safety requirements that could come into play. Along with that would be permission from Washington County to store a large amount of water in Eagle Point. A side optioy}/ would be that the City need not address the issue of Eagle Point if we`� could develop a storage site in West Lakeland Township. VBWD at this point is without a contingency plan. At VBWD's last meeting a motion was defeated to request that the City of Lake Elmo give their permission for using a diesel pump into City Park Pond if the need arose. Murray asked for the City's feelings about pumping additional water into City Park Pond if we came to a crisis situation. Consensus of the Council was that the crisis would have to be very extreme before they could go along with this proposal. Morgan suggested that VBWD proceed with the contingency plans, even if it does take sixty days for the public hearings, etc., to have some other alternatives. He further stated that it may be appropriate to see if VBWD could start pumping water into the Richert's gravel pit and form a mound there, keeping the contaminants away from the homes that lie between the gravel pit and the landfill. The draw down system is effective and pumping out of Lake Jane is mounding water and pumping it on the other side of the landfill would also create a mound and help that situation. So you would have two advantages; one taking the pressure off the park and the other taking the pressure off the resident's wells. Murray stated in response to the City's suggestion that VBWD use part of their administrative funds to fund a project was more or less shut out by VBWD a month ago when they adopted a resolution to enter into