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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES MAY 3, 1988 PAGE 3 systems so he was in support of a Reporting Card System. If our records showed that a homeowner hasn't had their system pumped, Johnson suggested it should be added on the card that if they have proof to show otherwise to please send it in. The Staff will soon have an inventory of who has or hasn't pumped in the last two years. As soon as this information is available as to who hasn't pumped, the City would implement the program. City Engineer Bohrer suggested that the first batch of the 201 reminders will go out this fall. This would be an appropriate time, because all the names with the septic tank pumpers records will be logged in, to send the notices stating that the City has adopted this program, the reasons, what it is (a preventative maintenance program), literature on how your septic system works and why it is important to do this. Lastly, according to our records your system has not been pumped within the last few years, please arrange to have this done within the next 30 days. Reporting cards would be available to pumpers within 6 weeks and the first mailing of the informational packet would be the Fall of 1988. The Council agreed on a change to the proposed ordinance on Item 8(b) when municipal facilities are not available, at a land disposal site approved by the County's Zoning Administrator. The Council did not want to empower our City's zoning administrator to say that people can dump septage in certain farm fields, but felt the disposal site should be approved by the County's Zoning Administrator. M/S/P Graves/Johnson - to adopt Ordinance 8017, amending the 1979 Lake Elmo Municipal Code; an ordinance mandating a minimum biennial pumping of individual on -site septic systems, with this program implemented through a reporting card system based on the time period recommended by Larry Bohrer (Reporting cards will be available and distributed to licensed pumpers in the City within 6 weeks, the first mailing of the informational packet the Fall of 1988. This will be the start of the Mandatory Pumping Program). (Motion carried 4-0). B. One Percent Ordinance The Planning Commission held a public hearing on March 28, 1988 to consider adoption of the "One Percent Ordinance". The commission discussed this at several meetings and on April 25th made a recommendation that the City Council adopt the ordinance as amended if the intent of the City Engineer had not been changed. City Engineer Bohrer did not agree with the Planning Commission's proposed wording: To restrict the runoff leaving a site so that on the average over 100 years, the increase in rate or volume of runoff due to new development shall not exceed one percent" because the limitation of one percent refers to the probability of occurence, not one percent of a rate or volume over an allowable limit. The One Percent Rule deals with the probability of occurence rather than a rate or volume. The probability is based on the`100 year historical records. However, this storm may not be the storm that produces the greatest amount of runoff from the site.