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MEoTROPOLITAN <br />QUESTION 3 CONTINUED: What resources might be leveraged to better connect <br />land use and water supply planning? <br />Water supply alternatives <br />• Consider a Plan B — alternative/contingencies; for example, City of Ramsey "Plan B" thinking <br />• Always a backup water system! <br />• Incentives/advantages to hooking up to Minneapolis or St. Paul water supply <br />• Encourage local governments to be proactive about water treatment <br />Treatment plants and septic <br />• Sub -regional water treatment plants <br />• Future treatment plants? Who plays? (NE metro) <br />• Will we someday eliminate private septic? If so, how do we get there? <br />Conservation and reuse <br />• Look at potential for reuse — don't just ship it downstream <br />• Best practice approach on re -use <br />• Impact of conservation and reuse <br />• Reuse water — how to at local level <br />Connect the dots <br />• Connect the dots for state -level elected <br />• Cost -benefit of conservation approaches <br />• Flip the conversation <br />• Bring in all partners in this discussion <br />• Multiple regulating agencies <br />• Staff expertise — varies across agency/city <br />• Leverage lessons from previous contamination issues <br />• Connecting the dots between land use and water <br />• Incorporate water concerns into land use planning <br />Know this <br />• Risk management; water never "pure" <br />• Knowledge/data to set good development policies <br />• Contaminants of emerging concern (the more we know...) <br />• Interconnectedness — emergency management <br />• Diminishing returns for water treatment <br />• Drinking water has higher need for treatment than other uses <br />• Cost of cleanup: Avoid future costs; Think differently <br />LUAC-MAWSAC Joint Workshop: November 6, 2017 <br />6 D <br />