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The Maplewood City Council. Milllr noted that the con-
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last week ordered a feasibility sultants' report shows Maple-
study for top-priority water sys- wood should participate in a
tern improvements that will be ,new well twith North St. Paul
necessary for the city to remain "in an amount between 20 and
on a"retail"water system. 40 per cent.'.
The cost of the improvements "If additional investment in
recommended in a recent con- the well is required by North St.
sultants' report, would be about Paul, then Maplewood should
$6 million. . consider serving the area with
The-council also resolved offi-' •the St.Paul system,"he said.
cially to pursue a retail water _^`
contract with the St. Paul Water
Department, to continue nego-
tiations with St. Paul on a rate
schedule and to negotiate with
North St. Paul on needed im-
provements for the portion of
Maplewood served by the North
St.Paul water system.
The feasibility study was op-'
posed by Councilman John
Greavu, who said, "It hasn't
been proven to me we need (the
improvements)."
"We spent three quarters of a
million dollars on a pumping
s t a t i o n," he said. "What's
wrong with it?"
Councilman Burton Murdock
voted against the resolution to
pursue the retail water contract,
and Councilman Donald Wie-
gert said he voted yes "not with
great enthusiasm." Both had fa-
vored a "wholesale" water sys-
tern operated by Maplewood.
The retail contract still leaves
the wholesale option open "if
future negotiations or problems
dictate," City Manager Michael
Miller noted.