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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES AUGUST 4, 1987 PAGE 10 Mayor Christ felt the City Staff could use their discretion as to the safety factor and take care of it. Councilman Graves thought it would be a good idea that we have an article in the newsletter asking people to try and take some action on their own initiative to trim some of the brush or to be sensitive to the traffic issue that is involved when the Maintenance Department goes around to trim the trees. The Hidden Bay Trail area could be used as an example that it does encumber the City's ability to remove snow from the street when the brush comes up against the edge. We would be able to keep the streets open to a wider degree if the brush was moved back. The consensus of the City Council was to enforce our tree trimming code and to request support or assistance from residents would help take care of the problem and free our maintenance crew to do other maintenance crew tasks. C. County Monitoring Well Pumping at Old Lake Jane Landfill City Engineer Bohrer reported that the contamination levels have been decreasing in most of the monitoring wells at the Lake Jane Landfill due to the continuing air stripping done by the County. The contamination concentration has increased in Monitoring Well I located between Jamaca Avenue and the City Maintenance Building. The County has been given permission from MPCA to perform a mini -air stripping project at that location to see if contamination levels will decrease and are now seeking City approval to do this work. The procedure would consist of pumping water through a garden hose and pulsating lawn sprinkler onto the grass area between Jamaca Avenue and the Maintenance Building. The lawn sprinkler will be moved as necessary to prevent runoff. We have observed the operation and believe that there will be no detrimental effects from this low volume pumping. The County wants to do this pumping to see if this increased level of contaminaton is just a localized pocket or if it is an indication of a different problem. City Engineer Bohrer recommended that the County be allowed to perform this pumping. Councilman Johnson asked what the actual levels are, would like to have his well tested and to pursue these answers because he does not feel air stripping is the solution. Councilman Graves would like to see a larger reassesment of the entire situation from the County which includes how much has the contamination been decreasing in the effluent of the wells, what do they estimate as a timeline for this problem to be resolved, and an action plan submitted with objectives. M/S/P Graves/Johnson - to grant approval of the request by Washincton —eua,it�to conductad -ditiona pumping of contaminated water from monitoring well "I", but also request an action plan from the County with their objectives and direction. (Motion carried 4-0).