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Summer 2020 City Hall - 3800 Laverne Avenue North - Lake Elmo, Minnesota 55042 (651) 747-3900City Hall - 3800 Laverne Avenue North - Lake Elmo, Minnesota 55042 (651) 747-39003880 Laverne Avenue North Suite 100 - Lake Elmo, MN 55042 (651) 747-3900 City Drinking Water Update Last Summer the City of Lake Elmo began preliminary survey work to identify a location for a new well and pump house in Tana Ridge Park. The City will begin drilling a new high capacity well in June to replace a well taken offline due to per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) contaminaition. Well No. 5 will be located in Tana Ridge Park and will be the third high capacity well supplying the City’s municipal water system. Traut Companies has been retained to drill the production well. This work will begin in June and be ongoing for two months. A test pumping period will occur towards the end of the drilling work which will direct groundwater into Goetchel Pond. Once the well is complete the City will begin construction of the Pumphouse. This work will begin sometime in September and will take until the Summer of 2021 to complete. The pumphouse is a building to house the production well, pump, mechanical and electrical devices, and chemical feed equipment needed to operate a well. The schedule is to have the production well online and producing water for the City by Summer 2021. The City received about $2 million from the State of Minnesota 3M Settlement Grant Funds for the new well and sealing of Well No. 1 in the Old Village Area. Well No. 5 Connecting Watermain Project Update An additional part of the 3M Settlement Grand Funds is the construction of a trunk watermain to be installed along 50th Street North between Lake Elmo Avenue and Lily Avenue North. This work will be completed during the Summer of 2020 to make a critical connection to the City's distribution system to deliver drinking water to City consumers. The watermain will be installed underneath the eastbound riving lane of 50th Street. In order to complete the work, 50th Street will be closed to eastbound traffic for the duration of the project (6-8 weeks). Advance warning sign and traffic detours will be installed in preparation of the start of the work. Local traffic will have access to their driveways during the project. . ...Article continues on Rendering of Well No. 5 pump house in Tana Ridge Park