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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES OCTOBER 21, 1986 PAGE 2 Mr. Gorman asked: "If the system goes in as proposed and our system fails, is the City accepting responsibility for that failure?" Bohrer responded that the systems are designed to allow water to soak into the soil. This is where the treatment occurs. We are providing more area for the water to soak in, but not changing the boundaries. They have done that by a change in the type of system. Councilman Christ stated as far as sites that fail in the future, unless the MPCA has additional State and Federal funds to provide additional grants, it would be the responsibility of the individual to upgrade at their expense. The City is not incurring any cost on the upgrade of these systems. This is being handled through assessments to property owners and grant fundings through state and federal governments. The City is only assisting in providing those folks the ability to get some upgrade and Christ sees no responsibility beyond that. He added, there have been 3-phases-at-we gave people the opportunity to get on the 201 system. If they didn't, they expected their systems to last or they felt it would be more benefical to them to upgrade at their own expense. (Amended 11-5-86 where) Referring to Dan Collyard's home on Legion Avenue, Mr. Gorman asked: "how can you direct federal and state money to hook up a system that you cannot live in?" Christ explained thst there were a number of things that the Collyards could have elected to do towards a solution. If the house is moved or abandoned, it can be deleted from the system. Bohrer added that realistically speaking we would cut down the number of treatment trenches that we would build on the Herzfeld property, but it would not change the boundary. On the Herzfeld property the access is more difficult because of the terrain. So in this particular case we are purchasing slightly more than might be needed for treatment purposes from Herzfeld simply because we have to get access. 5. Meet with Water Safety Committee Members The following persons were selected to serve on a newly formed Water Safety Committee to study water safety problems on Lake Elmo and report back to the City Council in the Spring of 1987. Commmittee Members: 1. David Gear, 2813 Lake ELmo Avenue N. 2. Carol Kelm, 10975 32nd Street N. 3. Pat Hagberg, 2976 Lake Elmo Avenue N. 4. Jim Schaefer, 2986 Lake Elmo Avenue No. 5. Tom or Jean Scheuerman, 3077 Klondike 6. Gary Horning, 2586 Oakgreen Avenue, West Lakeland 7. Don Moe, 61 Cimarron (replacing Emma Smith) The committee was given the following charge: 1. Identify the problems, concerns, and potential or real