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CITY OF ST. ANTHONY • SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES April 5 , 1983 The meeting was called to order by Mayor Sundland at 7 : 30 P.M. Present for roll call : Enrooth; Letourneau, Sundland, Ranallo and Marks. Also present: David Childs, City Manager and Larry Hamer, Public Works Director. A number of St. Anthony Advisory Committee to the Health Board members were in attendance , including Dr. - William Carr, the City ' s Health Officer; John Hatcher, Marlys and Bob Berg, Roscella Connelly, Jim Stephens and Peter Cartwright. They had been invited to attend the special work session to provide input towards the Council decision related to the detection of volatile , organic hydrocarbon contamination in the City water system as addressed in the preliminary study prepared by Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik & .Associates at the Council request. Bob Pulscher of the Springsted Company, the City ' s Financial Consultant, was also present. The engineering report which had . been given to the Council members in advance of the meeting was presented by Joseph Anderlik and Kelton D. Barr of Barr Engineering, who had been .retained by the engineering firm •. to make the hydrological studies on which the report was based. Mr. Anderlik. reiterated .what. he perceives to be the City's options for dealing with the detectible levels ofcontaminants suspected to have originated with. the Twin City Ammunition .Plant and found in Well #3, and to a lesser degree in Well #4, since New Brighton has dug their wells deeper into the Mt. Simon-Hinckley aquifer. According to Mr. Barr, - . it is reasonable to conclude the contaminated water would .bypass New Brighton and enter the St.. Anthony wells once it is no longer pumped from the corresponding wells in New Brighton. The alternatives offered by Mr. Anderlik were for the City to Cl) just leave the wells as they are and hope the contamination would not be accelerated once the New Brighton wells are fully in operation; (2) reconstruct Well #3 to take water only from the Jordan aquifer as do Wells #4 and 5 at a cost of $100 , 000 , which would slightly decrease the .City water supply and would not guarantee the supply would remain contaminant free, or (3) reconstruct -Well #3, so it penetrates into the Mt. Simon-Hinckley aquifer, at a cost of $300 , 000 , which Mr. 'Anderlik believes would guarantee , at least for that well, contaminant free water in the foreseeable future. Mr. Barr gave a slide presentation of maps and drawings to support the recommendation that the third option be pursued since there is no assurance that, in view of traces of contamination detected in Well #4 when Well #3 was out. of operation, that with the more water systems • which are dug deeper, the faster the contamination of the Jordan aquifer might develop.