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a LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 11-7-84 PAGE 6 Lake Olson to bleed the lake down 1-1/2 feet. It has not been agreed to .lower the weir permanently, but VBWD has suggested it. The DNR said."no", but VBWD will determine that the operation of the lake between 1.-1/2 feet below the top is consistant with the way the lake has behaved in the past. Once the 509 Plan is approved, the schedule for implementation is (if the counting would start now) to see construction during 1986. Realistically, it is too late to see anything happen in 1985. Eder stated that he knows there are some strong feelings both up and down on the lake levels, and suggested in the best interest of others that may want to comment, we should continue this hearing until the next meeting. M/S/P Eder/Morgan - To continue this public hearing for the proposed ordinance 7964 - Surface Water Use at the 11-20-84 meeting. B. VBWD request to continue pumping from Lake Jane to Park Pond after 11/15/84. Mr. Dick Murray stated we have had over five inches of rain in October. The year to date rainfall is almost eleven inches over normal. As a result of this, we have got almost as much water In the watershed system as we had after the June rains. There is'407 acre feet more water in the Lake Jane sub -watershed than we had a year. ago November. A similar condition exists downstream in the West Lakeland area where we have 189 excess acre feet of water.' The water in West - Lakeland has now reached down to Fifth Street, which is the farthest point south that it as ever been. VBWD would like to continue operating the pump on Lake Jane, past the November 15th agreed upon date, and remove as much water from Jane that is possible. VBWD is willing to live with an agreement that if we get significant snowfall, whereby the water flowing from Park Pond would impair the cross country skiing, they would terminate pumping. Park Pond has gone down about one foot since October 20th, and a lot of that is because the diesel pumping from Lake Jane was stopped. The diesel pump was shut off on August 30th. The diesel pump was stopped because Lake Jane was down to an elevation of about 922 feet. It was costing about, $250 a day to operate the diesel pump, and with the water that was upstream at that time, VBWD felt that the electric pump would be adequate to .receed Lake Jane. Lakes Olson and DeMontreville were well below the weir. Sunfish Lake is two feet above where it was one year ago, and it is still rising. Sunfish Lake did not rise during October equal to the amount of rainfall we had. There is still a significant, amount of seepage out of Sunfish Lake, yet there is no disputing the fact that it came up two feet since a year ago. The water is probably within three vertical feet from the machine shed that Mr. Beaubien has, and it probably has inundated a well that he has near his machine shed, which he uses for irrigation. His house is well above any of the flood levels. The top of Mr. Beaubien`s well is not sealed, it looks like a pipe that was a sandpoint. The well is about forty -feet deep,