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m Lmu -ru: MAYOR AND CITY CUUNCI}.� S\ <br />FROM: CLERK -ADMINISTRATOR <br />DATE: SEPTEMBER 24, 1985 <br />SUBJECT: CONGRESSIONAL ACTION TO REGULATE STORM WATER <br />DISCHARGES <br />AttaCneo please rind a memorandum from Mr. Juei Jamnik, <br />Legislative Counsel for the League of Minnesota Cities <br />outlining recent developments in the Clean Water Act of 1972 <br />which could result in the Federal regulation of every <br />menmade discharge point entering into open waters in the <br />United States. Such regulations could include municipal <br />storm sewer systems discharg,ng into open waters such as <br />Rice Creek. The City of Mounds View has discharge permits <br />from the EPA for each of our water treatment plants which <br />discharge into our storm sewers and from there into Rice <br />Creek. Du r.ng the interim between John Johnson and Steve <br />Thatcher I was responsible for filing some of tt.ese applica- <br />tion:., which I can assure you are both voluminous and <br />complicated to the extreme requiring water samples be '_aken <br />by a testing firm in the Twin Cities to determine exactl,, <br />what chemicals are being added to the system by the <br />discharge. Also, the City pays a fee for the permit. <br />I would have to agree with Mr. Jamnik that to regulate storm <br />sewer discharges is both infeasible and not within the <br />spirit of the Clean Water Act and should be discouraged. <br />Therefore, I would recommend that the City Council au LiWCize <br />me to corre::pond with Senator Durenberger and <br />Representatives Stanglund and Oberstar indicating our <br />diafavcr with s,.ch a propcsal. <br />DFPi m; s <br />Attachment: <br />