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Memo To: Mayor and City Council From: Mary Kueffner Date: July 19, 1994 Subject: Olson Lake Estates Pond I spoke with Chuck Dayton about the upcoming public meeting scheduled for August 11. This meeting is in response to our intervention in the VBWD temporary discharge permit requested from the DNR. Mr. Dayton has expressed the following thoughts to me regarding this permit and the public hearing: • Do we want to provide "expert testimony," such as a limnologist to discuss the impact of the discharge on Olson Lake? • Mr, Dayton suggested that we have a court reporter at the meeting. The reporter can report the meeting, but not transcribe it unless we need it at a future date. I have checked with Logal & Styrbicki Court Reporting Services in St. Paul. Their charges are $35.00 per hour. If we want the testimony transcribed, the cost is $4.60 per page. Northwestern Court Reporters in Hudson charges $30.o0 per hour, and $2.55 per page of transcript. They also charge $7.50 per hour for travel time. • Mr. Dayton has also suggested we have someone from the MPCA speak to the water quality Issue. That may be an option to look at rather than paying for a limnologist. •The DNR (permitting agency) has delegated this public hearing to the Valley Branch Watershed, despite our objections. The public hearing is scheduled from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 P.m. on Thursday, August 11, 1994, prior to the regular VBWD meeting. I have talked with Peter Zetterburg about this hearing. He feels the hearing is unnecessary for the temporary permit, and the City should be concentrating on VBWD's Plan Amendment that shows options for permanent solutions to the issues we have raised. I talked with Randy Peterson of Barr Engineering today. They will be taking water samples of both the Pond and the Lake tomorrow. The results of the testing they have done to date are shown on the attached exhibits. On 5-4-94, prior to alum treatment, the phosphorus lever of the Pond was 125. The levels after treatment were 5-9-94 - 36 ug/L; 5-13-94 -28 ug/L; 5-20-94 - 54 ug/L; and 6-9-94 - 65 ug/L. The Lake was tested on these same dates. Their phosphorus levels were: 5-4 - 20 ug/L; 5-20- 94 - 23 ug/L; (North end) 19 ug/L (South end); 6-9-94 - uug/L (North end) 13 ug/L (South end). fri Do we want to spend the money to intervene in a temporary permit is the questions we should ask ourselves, or do we want to make sure that the long term solution is implemented into VBWD's Plan. The temporary permit expires in August of 1995. If you chose to not intervene in the temporary permit, (even though we have already done so) we could ask the DNR for a guarantee that the final permit would not be an extension of the current temporary permit, but rather a whole new process starts with input from the public not only allowed, but encouraged.