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Home My WebLink About1975 04-18 Maplewood plns water rate action DISPATCH Maplewood pans rate action Maplewood may request legislation to force the St. Paul Water Board to oper- ate as an independent agency, serving "that to- tal area for which it was designed." The Maplewood City Council Thursday ordered its staff to study the,possi- ble legislation after the council rejected by 3 to 2 a $10.3 million water im- provements project that would have enabled the city to operate an inde- pendent water distribu- tion system. The council also direct- ed its staff to study the constitutionality of legis- lation under which the St. Paul Water Board oper- ates. The board's operation is discriminatory, council members said, in that suburban retail water cus- tomers pay higher rates than St. Paul customers, Maplewood water cus- tomers now pay rates about 35 per cent higher— than those paid by St. Paul customers. Under the proposed in- dependent water distribu- tion system, Maplewood would have purchased wa- ter from the water board at wholesale rates and re- sold it to Maplewood cus- tomers.