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—� CITY OF ST. ANTHONY COUNCIL MINUTES ' ;• June -28, 1983 The meeting was opened at 7 : 30 P.M. with the Pledge of Allegiance led by' Mayor Sundland. Present for roll call : Marks , Ranallo, Sundland, Letourneau, and Enrooth. Also present: David Childs, City Manager. At 7: 31 P.M. the Mayor opened the public hearing to receive a report on temporary water supply alternatives for the City 's water system which had been scheduled to precede another public meeting to be conducted in another room in the Parkview building by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Participating in the presentation -of . the report were. Steve Lee and Sue Brustman of the MPCA; Karen Valdgogel, the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency representative from Chicago; and Robert D. Schilling and Tom Card of CH2M Hill Consultants, Bellevue,. Washington,., whose engineering firm had been retained to prepare, a temporary drinking water feasibility study conducted under the federal EPA'.s "Superfund" and to recommend alternatives for temporarily providing safe drinking water- for the City of St. Anthony in the event the contamination now present in trace amounts in the City wells should increase -to levels beyond government ;• human health guidelines . About a. -dozen other persons were present for the report. Mr. Lee indicated that, although there is convincing evidence that the volatile organic hydrocarbons now present. in the City ' s water supply had originated from the Twin City Arsenal in Fridley, there is no definite proof that the arsenal is the only source of contamination and in order to determine just which party and/or parties should be held accountable for cleaning up the contamination and providing clean drinking water for the affected communities, it would be necessary for a two year study of the area' s water production system to be undertaken. The MPCA representative assured those present that the State Health Department's testing had given no indication that contaminants had reached levels in the St. Anthony wells which would justify the shutting down of any wells , but Mr. Lee said he ,agreed with the City Council that plans should be made for contingencies in case the water condition should deteriorate rapidly. However, he cautioned that- federal funding would be usedonly to provide a temporary remedy for the problem, since when the responsible .party and/or parties .are identified, they would be directed to provide permanent solutions towards the provision of clean drinking water. Copies of the CH2M Hill study and recommendations were handed out to the Council members and Mr. Schilling indicated copies would be made available to thepublic at the City offices and the St. Anthony library . The •. City wells would have to be tested at least over two summer pumping seasons to identify the sources of contamination so public funds spent on the study and remedy can be recovered from the responsible parties , _ according to the engineering firm representative.