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-6- Councilmember Ranallo stated he believed the City's attorney, Jack Van DeNorth had • done "an excellent job in his presentation. " However, the Councilmember said he would like to see another executive session scheduled with Briggs and Morgan in a week or ten days to look at alternatives to continuing the law suit. Mayor Sundland said he expected that, as more and more proof is found that the Army and its sub- contractors had, in fact, caused the contamination outside the arsenal , the Army would become more reluctant to have such evidence presented in court. Councilmember Ranallo said that might be true but he would hate to see this case drag on for ten years or more like the Rocky Mountain Arsenal case where the litigants have already spent millions of dollars for research and investigation and Denver's problems remain unsolved. Councilmember Marks indicated he perceived a precedent for the government making restitution for an Army action might have already been established when the ranchers whose sheep. were killed as a result of atomic bomb testing had been reimbursed for their losses. The Councilmember then reported he had sat with Congressman Sabo's representative at the same table at lunch during the tour of TCAAP as the man in charge of all such clean up efforts for the Pentagon (Mr. Walker), who had inquired about the City's interest in settling as they walked out of the building. Council- member Marks said he had told Mr. Walker that he perceived that would be possible 'just as soon as the City could determine just how much it would cost to clean up the contamination and get the water supply back to where it was before it was contaminated. The Councilmember said he was convinced the "Army would be willing to' settle eventually, if the pressure to do so is kept up". Mayor Sundland reported "General " Walker's inquiry had also been indirectly conveyed • to him and Dave McDonald, who had indicated he- perceived once the City is able to know for sure just what it would cost to carbon filter the wells (the EPA had estimated $165,000 a year),, St. Anthony would be in a position to talk settlement with the Army. Mr. Childs interjected that he guessed the Army. would want to wait to settle until the City had gotten every cent it could from the EPA, which the Manager said he anticipated would probably not be until next spring. - The MPCA would be considering an alternative water system for St. Anthony at its September meeting, Mr. Childs reported, and he said he would expect the system they would recommend would be the carbon filtration of all three wells with a raw water line installed from Well #5 to the plant, which would be slightly less expensive than digging another deep .well . The Manager indicated he would get any information he received on that meeting to the Councilmembers as soonas he received it so the decision as to whether that was the way the Council wanted to go could be made in advance of the meeting. He then indicated that, since all the engineering on the new system would be done by the EPA,. it would "almost be out of our hands at that point". Councilmember Ranallo commented that he didn't believe "the City could go through another summer with Roseville water" because of resident complaints about its quality. Mr. Childs told the Councilmember he couldn't guarantee that:.could be avoided because he perceived that the 30 day delay while the MPCA reconsidered the RFRA decision had caused the MPCA staff to get farther behind in their work on the alternate water system for St. Anthony. Councilmember Ranallo said he perceived that, in spite of City assurances to the contrary, some residents were becoming "very wary" about the extent of the water contamination and were having filtration systems installed on their home water supplies. Going back to the MPCA Board meeting that afternoon, the Councilmember said he had been, very impressed with the support the City had gotten from testimony given by the State Attorney General 's representative, Councilmember Marks indicated he had been very impressed with the "deferential treatment" the Army had given to Congressman