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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES MARCH 4, 1986 PAGE 4 6. CITY ENGINEER'S REPORT A. Bellaire Sanitation - Request for variance from spring road weight restrictions. This item was tabled from the last Council meeting on 2-18-86 to obtain information as to how other municipalities in the area handle such requests. John Maroney, Maroney Service, was in attendance to request a variance from spring road weight restrictions. Councilwoman Armstrong and Councilman Christ expressed their concern to save the roads, however not to interfere with the public health concern of leaving trash uncollected. Armstrong also felt that because the County didn't give out any variances, then the City shouldn't give any variances either. Councilmen Christ and Mazzara would support a compromise of 7 tons per axle and for haulers to use their discretion on roads they travel on. M/S/P Morgan/Mazzara - to amend the load limits for the garbage and septic haulers operating within the City of Lake Elmo to 7 tons per axle, acknowledging that the County and State still have the option to ticket the truck if it is overloaded while traveling on a County or State roadway coming to or leaving Lake Elmo. (Motion carried 4-1<Armstrong>). B. County Landfill Water Supply Project Councilman Christ informed the City Counsil that the Ramsey County Board changed their attitude and decided that they didn't need to supply community water to the residents affected by the Lake Jane Landfill contamination. Ramsey County decided to pass a resolution agreeing to install individual granular activated carbon filtering units in the residences within the landfill advisory area. The residents totally objected to this. Councilman Christ stated that just cleaning the water would not solve the hardships that homeowners have faced for the past several years and will probably face in the future. Christ feels that consideration of the reduction in market values of the homes in the affected area has not been addressed by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. He feels it is necessary to demonstrate there's a reduction in market values of up to $45-$50,000, and one of the residents has already experienced this. Mayor Morgan stressed that we have a very grave problem right now. We must convince the Ramsey County Board and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency that the charcoal system is not an adequate solution to this problem. Morgan added that there are some dangerous chemicals that can't be filtered out. Charcoal is not the safest or the most effective way to solve this problem.