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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2 Publication !/328680 Maplewood, Minnesota " "" Single Copy 30t WED., MAY 21, 1980
Unusual events lead to sewer a
By MARY LEE HAGERT Arcade St., Mike Miskovich, 1193 Beam NEIGHBORS ALONG Beam Avenue
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Ave., and Mick Popov, 1185 Beam Ave., blueprints of the street. The Probe Finally, Bill Bittner, Maplewood city
After a rather unique course of events, all of Maplewood. complained the assessments were higher engineers decided to take the watermain engineer,told the council members that it N
the residents along Beam Avenue north of The 21 acres is near the northern border than they could afford. and sewer lines out from underneath the was his responsibility to advise the `
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Kohlman Lake will soon be receivin a of Kohlman Lake in Ma lewood alon place them the council on this of complicated issue. 4
the need for installing sanitary sewers
sanitary sewer line along their street. Beam Avenue. Voya says they have an
along the streets. Improperly operatiroadway. This would lower the overall ng ..„06,,,,....
May 1the Maplewood city council "exclusive option" to purchase an ad- cost of the project,but might increase the
approved the installation of the sanitary ditional 28 acres, which adjoin their septic tanks are violating both city and probability of future problems with water BITTNER EXPLAINED that Probe's ' .
sewer west of Highway 61,but not before property. state regulations and may be leeching and sewer lines freezing during winter. designs did not meet Maplewood's f
y sewage into neighboring wetlands and
listening to several citizens and engineers Piletich and his partners plan to build Kohlman Lake, standards for an acceptable, improved
express their opinions on the pros and single family homes and townhouses on TO FURTHER reduce project costs, street. The company was proposing a
cons of installing public utilities and the Beam Avenue land. Before they can Piletich and his partners volunteered to temporary road surface that would
upgrading the street. fully develop their property, the city On March 13, the council members provide black fill dirt from their property require permanent paving at a future -,:i ;`
Perhaps the most vocal proponent of requires that sanitary sewers, water- listened to the neighbors' concerns about to replace the bad peat soil under Beam date. This would cause more in- t
this rather expensive project is Voya mains, and storm sewers be installed the high costs and tabled the project. Avenue. convenience to the residents along Beam , '
Piletich. along Beam Avenue. The street surface They instructed the city staff to in Avenue and would involve additional _ `,`
Piletich,who resides at 2130 Arcade St., also must be upgraded in order to handle vestigate the potential health problems By skimping wherever possible, the assessments when the permanent street
has addressed the city council members the increased traffic. caused by the inadequate sewer systems. Probe engineers estimated front foot was installed, Bittner said. ,,,,
on the Beam Avenue project numerous The soils underneath the now bumpy Piletich and his partners are anxious to assessments for abutting properties at -�-
times during the past few months. Beam Avenue are poor with pockets of begin work this summer on their housing about$75 for their plan. After a lengthy debate on the matter,
The Maplewood council members have peat that need to be removed before a development.They feared the high costs Councilman Earl Nelson, who himself is VOYA PILETICH
become familiar with his heavy Eastern standard, paved street can be built. The would defeat the project and thereby These lower prices sounded good to the an engineer, moved to approve the in-
European accent, thick crop of curly, bad soils have caused the projected costs stymie their development plans. So, the neighbors,and most of them attended the stallation of the sanitary sewer according
brown hair and slight build. A native of of the street and utility improvement four men hired another design May 15 meeting of the city council to show to city standards by the least expensive man.He believed that his hiring of Probe
Yugoslavia, he has lived in Maplewood project to be unusually high. engineering firm to use the city their support of Probe's flans. means possible.He also directed the city Engineering helped in getting the first
for eight years. Assessment cost estimates by Short, specifications for the utility and sewer The meeting brought the Short, Elliott, engineering department to write up phase of the street and utility im-
Elliott, Hendrickson, Inc., a city-hired improvements to see if there was a way to Hendrickson and the Probe engineers specifications for the sewer installation provement project along Beam Avenue
PILETICH HAS has been striving to consulting engineering firm,were as high lower the project's price tag. together. At times, the two groups using the plans and drawn up by Short, approved.
develop a 21 acre parcel of land he owns as $173.29 a front foot for the Beam The men employed Probe Engineering engaged in debates over the pros and cons Elliott, Hendrickson, Inc. Although it proved costly, he said he
along with his brother, Dusan, 2128 Avenue improvements. Company of Burnsville to draw up of their separate plans. Voya left the council chambers a happy achieved his goal.
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