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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPZ 9.17.07 Packet3800 Laverne Avenue North Lake Elmo, Minnesota 55042 (651) 777-5510Fax: (651) 777-9615 Www.LakeEb2p.Org 111111111pligli I ell- �'- 11MW 101 llfffi� BE= f J, 1japul'J, 0 (1, City �of Lake Elmo / /` `�� (�� DATE: September17.20O7 TO: David Steele, Chair,Parks Commission Park Commissioners Fwurw: Susan Hoyt, Administrato RE: 2OO8through 2O12Capital Improvement P| i Process • Determine criteria for prioritizing park/trail projects, • Determine priority projects (planning and construction) • City staff will research cost and process for accomplishing these projects as well as identify funding sources (sometimes the park fund from developments is not an eligible • Put them into five year CIP — focus on 2008 as definite projects. o When the city council does the comprehensive financial plan that includes the CIP, we will re -visit and fine tune the CIP. Every year the city prepares ofive year capital improvement plan aepart ofits budgeting process. The plan is designed toprogram for future needs and the funding sources to accomplish those needs over the coming five years. The C|Pieannually revisited and revised. Although inclusion of project in the first year of any C|P (e.g. 2008). may not be funded if the need changes orthe funding source turns out not hobeavailable, ty|iuoUy.the ��dyear ofthe C|P in any given year, is fully funded and is implemented over that �aac general property tax impacts to cover the costs of the purchase even if general obligation bonds or notes are used to get money to cover the cost, and, when this is realized, the truck purchase is put off for another year or so. III implementation plan for use of fees, assessments, grants, fund balances and property taxes that City of Lake Elmo In addition, a CIP must be realistic in reflecting how much the city can implement in any one year — apart from funding availability. Given this, the city council approved working on a financial plan that includes a five year CIP with prioritized projects and an identified funding sources. The plan, which we are using our financial advisors for, will demonstrate the grants, fees, assessments and potential tax impacts from the CIP for the projects that are annually prioritized. The process also allows the city to know when g.dditional operating costs are associated with a capital improvement. Turning a neighborhood greenspace into a more formal neigbhorhodd park both of which are eligible park capital expenses. It also requires more mowing time and planning to maintain the equipment, Using acomprehensive and financially based C|Pprocess will take the city more time tofinalize. |nthe meantime, the city staff and council will move forward with aC|Pfor the coming year, in paM1cular, starting in October and November and refine it into the larger financial plan over the coming months. 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Groundwatdtii�revvas pollub SEPTEMBER S7, 2007 - STARTRIBUNEXOM "YOU WILL NEVER WIN IF YOU A8 _ STAR TRIBUNE > MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 ROUNDWAT FROM Al S STAR TRIBUNE-­'­1LNE&H THE KETRO AREA,Ar Ply -,MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 Two-thirds of the water consumed in. Approxinmte . - 9,,, C)Sne CD.E It we are not going to be able to answer w.LtA% "- the metropolitan area comes from the .. grOUrtdi Often from a wateT'ZiCI! layer :path of crass { h' IO.KFa Ctr — -, s@Ctla3!01-11. - 7 any certainty,". said ' VirgiYua'�'ingling,ahydrologist called the Prairie du Chien -Jordan aquifer. When contamination reaches shower, below f • an a uifer, it can qspread-widely,/ 'Go s j a '_0W who has mapped pp the plumes for the state ldealth p to StarTribun'e.com/groundwater to see an interactive map and graphic pts` t Department. "There are places where we well. be sampling irrten1 about blob like areas of groundwater c �Ttc a t pollution known as plumes. r sively because we just don't know what is going one' �. Until recently other stake officials turned up in the Eisenschenlc fame-. Feet above CROSS-SEenon OF - were sure nothing was goingon with ly's well three years ago, seaIevel I'tNtIUCTPiSA�LTIpE2£S I Judith Judith and James Blackford's well. "I was really.worzied when I first oo 1200 -Lake eapalssu StoParrl e-, "Your well is not impacted by, the landfill hydrogeologist Ingrid: t heard about it," said {Kendra Eisen schenlc; 15, who lives at,with iypl netonka M srsseppi verge Verhagen of the Minnesota pollution' her parents and younger brother. h 900 layerl wird k u ` Rtver ^V Control Agency wrote them in 2004. Suddenly; some of her friends sidrieposredhyla€�e�s But their well and 12 neighbors'® , couldn't visit because .their patents T once thought not at risk because they; were essentially uphillfrom the'rand-, worried they would drini contain- mated 'water, she said. Later, -when . fill —have tested positive in the past everyone understood that the farmL.. , year for PFBA, a. chemical 3M once ; ,ly had switched to bottled water, her 300 made for coating photographic film., friendscarne back , Now, Verhagen and others believe It won't be as simple to remedy the FM Aquifexs 0''Yag ,y f that the government's decades -long cleanup program at the landfill inad- , groundwateri Alcoa and whirlpool, who are e , Ri � z� £,i Nonwater-beak&g to ; 11 Vertical exaggeration approxi vertently raised the water table, and . sponsible .fbr'the cleanup because i i oo tunes • redirected pollution into the wells. .° their wastes were disposed in the -300 u�r`�mkitC'e.',.., tq i, 4r.`� ti -- —ny - b It didn't help that PFBA seems to, dump; say they have spent $6,4.mil- . source: Metropolitan Council starTribune zip through groundwater, outpacing lion on the site over 20'years. Now, other pollutants, in the same landfill, various additional remedies costing such as volatile organic compounds up to $3.1 million are under consid in Washington County have turned case, engineers three years ago began EV aoptioii.is other a de of the up oner g groundwater west the air- ' Those compounds are amazing" , One to drill awell to ex- " pi Rivin Dakote* One t eo- a County. One.Theo- port,. ff .,pork,, using probes that sniff for pol- said Verhagen:' They travel to places : tract the pollution, a job that could, ryis that they slipped through fissures lution. Eventually they'drilled a well a VOC would'never go." take five to 10'years, said consulting beneath the river bottom. on the property of ,a former rnantr- 'I The water'table hear the,Uadfill . "engineerRonFrehner.; factures of equipment for installing now is dropping, but it could take .' • It's not the only time pollution has Balani clod that', get hese? treads on tires, now the site of a food three years for residents' wells to be (slid beneath water bodies. A far-latg- Sometimes the mystery 'is not `market. It showed:TCE levels 10,000 { rid of PFBA, she said. Meanwhile, the er slug of chemicals from the Twin where underground pollution is times higher than the drinking water' state is supplying homeowners with Cities Army Amm—unitionPlant. ties ' headed, but Where it is coming from, , standard. in-house filtration systems, though beneaththreelakes, ,including the ` .:. For years, state officials held the It was "the mother lode," said Ste - the Blackfords are holding out for 183 -acre Long Lake in New Brighton, ' Lake Ehno .A.irport responsible fora , phen Thompson, a ,supervisor 9u the municipal water hookup. It affects none of the lakes; the chem.- .large area of groundwater corimmi- Superfrind program. But the equip - They don't think the chemical has icals lie in deeper aquifers, ;forcing hated with the degreaser TCE on- 'ment company no longer exists, so, harmed them or their two adult chil-`, two cities to purify their drinking wa- ly to discoveir'later that the primary the state must foot:the bill fora ' - dren, one of whom still lives at home, ter ata cost of $1.7 million a year.' source, of the pollution was a mile tent to pump out the pollution— $1.5 The risk of low-level contamination Engineers are mvestigating how 3M away. million next year, and more lir the. is that a lifetime of drinking the water chemicals that were dumped mostly `Like investigators reopeninganold `years to come might increase theirodds of disease. "We've always been really aware of chemicals in our environment;' said L %- ` Judith Blackford. "It kind of sucks `# -- some of the joy out life knowingx – r that ity water system, You is i t ` nyour can't quantifyit. You can't say what it �x r is going to do." Suiprise.beneath a lake In North Oaks,'the exclusive sub'-, urb in Ramsey County built on a farm office owned by railroad mag-; nate James J. Hill, residents thought their problems with buried chemi- cals were behind them in 1994. That's when the last chemical drums weredug out of an old dump on Hwy. 96, and 60 residents on, the east side of Gilfillan Lake stopped using wells contaminated by a pollu- tion plume. The residents switched to municipal water. But the plume of vinyl chloride ` kept moving. Over the next decade, it silentlyslipped beneath the lake and under a tree -lined street and houses on the opposite shore. The cancer-causing chemical A view out of a broken window at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant in ArdenHills. The distant hill is where chemicals once used at plant were burned and dumped, contaminating groundwaterbeneath parts of seven cities. AG ® STAR TRIBUNE a MONDAY; SEPTEMBER 17, 2007 to corne? One N. urdmown about groL1rC, ; :iter is whetb,er other che,,caa ,,ur- prises wall come along like Ws per- fluoroc,ar7em cols, ®Y l l CSe , she compounds used in.Scotcll- F � O THEJOY gard, Teflon , and `other coatings weren't on regulators' radar. screens O �� eKNOWING" until 2002, -when the � coos"a"ly s"upped 'Imaldng thein, Widespread 'tesciag environmental a en$al for PFCS ' YOURWATER didn't began until 2004. : Even today, the rap against PF'Cs isSYSTE ' ®D not that they're lsraovrxa to licit pea l dish B1adzfoxcl pie - studies of PFC workers don't show, it --�"but that the chemicals re - whose wellis contted ` list breaking dovrn'easilyandtendto accumulate in the tissues of dnigml' and h ans, .. `Fliousands of other chemicals in In Edina` and -Blain, the-soauc­ commercial use may. share sorne of `es, of two large phones :of ground water pollution that taint city welly the sante qualities, yet era t' re -- g ulator,Y standards` don't ` comma l' SD" ; Have eluded investigators for years. Adding $® the `puzzle, the Edina fold require ase sessments of their ecological or hu - In feat of szarner 3� y s' ag1.e; the lives cr:� t ee Hien lution stretches into neighboring St, man health coaisequences, � accord ing to recent Canadian research iii � changeel`forevex because th�lr ' I,csuis Park, intersecting with another the Journal Science dzaxak from a paisaiiedwell. plaune of eon$ ants..: Only one of Edina's 15 municipal °`�% are always Iilayinig ca$chmii " p9 rxaid Barry ]Kelly, a reseal°cher an envi- ' wells showed traces of visayl chloride, and it was shut down and will be re- roulnental toxicolo at Saixion �'ra- -U � o the Twin, laced, said the city's p p ' 's iiblic works : ser�Tniversity in British Colu ibia, . ���e are ,yeas behind tea � de Citiesrgiaxa, demicals cantar- � director, Roger Glanzer. If the pollut= er isn't found and Held responsible, terxxiine the effectsj# $%ae envi�oxi xaate` � ounc�watexbeneafh a� area egiuvle times �h thecity or state Bills$ bei $he costssize icrii, . amore than 15 "bion cFaemicals are of l�Y(aeapolis. of dealing with the problem.used "Matercart be'very old and palm commercially, according is the lotion c come 'from `a ilu"riber of American Che i"a re rcal Society About 500,000 aated hazardous by the different sources;" Glanzer said. 'If -are U;Se lanvaronznental P"otection Agen those, sources no longer exist, it's and 129 axe priority pollutants very difficult to figure out where the ones commonly found. they inigh't be:' ' State offzcialsspezxtyea saga ri ®re Brad Moore, state poll�i$io"i con- trol trol commissioner, said lie expects thane $500;000 in Blaine investigating the future will bring neenviron- yv o"iPo ' the the source of an industrial chemical inental c®ncerns `with some chex"xi known as DCA that was found in two " . Gals, He said the best hope is vigilant in'�ii�cipal` cells iii 1993. "We MOM oring an.d research "to stave off were able to find the plume sorrie of $11ose,potential probleMs., but we could not find the source," said state Pollution Control Agency ITzifrtunately, it's Hoc practical k er ect manager Steven Sohoff. " ` fol a lab to screen for ""lore tie a ,: f0w hinidred chemicals d, g "ezivi- The plume encompasses more Blai-i square The city ron mental investi�atioz�s` said Jahn ` , Erdmann, s 6,0miles. gine sent $26,000 last- October er principal ei vironmen- tal engineer forTe"icl� Associates, a to install equipment that strips out cleanup firm based in Maple flat tine chemical before it enters the wa., . 14S really it's lake yJ$Te are in this ter supply. Over diene, officials hope ,be system will gradually clean rip the h e cave, and vve have fl areal filly . flashlight," he said. David SilEl ;P_f ° 4iIM73--1090