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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JANUARY 19, 1993 9 In an effort to correct this great affront to our environment, the counties installed a water depleting and environmentally damaging system called air stripping. There is only one way that this mess can be cleaned up for certain at a known expense and time. That is the material be removed, recyclables be cycled, and other materials composted. Lake Elmo must maintain ownership of this property to exert the greatest amount of influence toward the proper solution of the problem. While doing this it is correct for the city of Lake Elmo to expect the counties of Washington and Ramsey to pay to the city of Lake Elmo $10,000 a year for the loss of use of its land until this mess is cleaned up and we can use this land for its intended purpose, that is park land. Councilman Johnson indicated he didn't see any advantage in having an ownership or even an implied ownership in a dump. Washington and Ramsey Counties bought this property, and it is their mess to clean up. The City should get their $75,000 back and let them deal with the problem. M/S/P Conlin/Johnson - to proceed with cancelling the contract, keep the area of our maintenance and fire dept. sites, direct Pennfield to proceed with appraisals for both Landfill Park and the park area within Stonegate. (Motion carried 4-1: Mottaz: A vote in favor of this is doing a tremendous disservice to the citizens of Lake Elmo, and it is putting a strong 4-1 stamp of approval on the rotten, messy job that Washington and Ramsey Counties are doing in their efforts to clean up the dump). OTHER: Tom Prentice, Board Member of the Tri-Lakes Assoc and representing Olson Lake Demontreville Assoc. for the evening, requested from the council the possibility of working with the city attorney in trying to prevent the emergency gate of water from the Olson Lakes Estates pond into Olson Lake. Nick Winkel, 4575 Olson Lake Trail, explained he attended the last VBWD meeting where they decided to start emergency action (starting March 1st) by releasing water from Olson Lakes Estate because they feel they are in a flood stage and basements are at a point of flooding. They discussed having eminent domain and running a temporary plastic pipe across his property into the lake. When the Council asked Mr. Prentice if there were associations that could help the city offset the attorney's cost, he replied the Tri-Lakes Assoc. does have association fees that could be used for this. Councilman Johnson asked