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APRIL 27, 1976 MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HUGO CITY COUNCIL 39 9 TIME: 7:14 P.M. - WITHROW SCHOOL PRESENT: Lease, Leroux, Schletty and Smith. SUNSET LAKE INFORMATIONAL MEETING Lease read notice of public meeting - announced that Hugo is under orders from the PCA and Rice Creek Watershed District to clean up the lake and this is one of the reasons for holding this meeting. He said the Council is trying to keep this a local issue whereby the people can work with the council and the City Engineer to resolve their problems,rather than turning it over to either PCA or Rice Creek. Several general meetings have been held, he said, looking at the lake level and causes for some of the pollution and they haven't been able to come up with a solution. Tonight Howard Kuusisto, City Enginee6, will try to come up with some solutions. Will present some proposals and then answer questions. Howard Kuusisto presented an ariel photograph of the Sunset Lake area, and announced the purpose of this meeting is to get the feel- ings of the people as to what they would like to see done - presented some of the problems of the most serious nature - stated that PCA is concerned with the pollution problems, contaminated wells and also the lake level. The lake level itself is presenting a problem, he said. Some of the septic systems have effluent draining into the lake. Effluent he explained is the material that drains out of the septic system; influent is the material that enters the septic system. He explained that many of the private systems are not working properly. One of the problems is possible entrance of the effluent into the lake and into the ground where it can enter the wells. Some drainage systems are too close to the well. For some people on the Eastern side of the lake, it is almost impossible to get far enough away from the lake, he said. To the north, a little more land is available and the problem is not so great. He also stated that it is necessary for the lowest part of the drainfield to be at least 4' higher than the lake level. The systems on the east side of the lake fail for many reasons, among them the lake level, not sufficient land available, and the distance the septic system is from the well. As we go further north, he noted, there are some residents that are more remote but are putting raw sewage into the lake. He explained that Sunset Lake is at the upper end of the drainage basin that flows eventually through an outlet into Round Lake. Sunset Lake is rising faster, at the present time, than it can empty into Round Lake; it must first climb to a higher elevation and it is out of the jurisdiction of Hugo to alter this situation. In regard to Royal Haven Estates on the West side of the lake, he said it would be possible to transport that sewage further to the west if necessary. He stated that in order to have an adequate private sewer system and eliminate contamination of wells itwould be neccessary to have sufficient land to provide treatment otherwise it would be necessary to purchase more land or acquire land wherever possible to treat it. This would be the easiest and least expensive solution. Another alternative would be a collective unit for those in diff- iculty, by means of isolating five or six units and then pooling them together or get the entire population on the east side of the lake to transport theLr sewage to another location to treat it and the treat- ment coPild be the same as for a private system except it would be away from the lake.