HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974 09-02 Sewer Analysis Asked DISPATCH Sewer nal sis Asked
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By Don Boxmey���ecerne Taxpayers,' asks larger, more complete im-
Staff Writer for a full environmental pact statement.
A fear for the life of impact statement and was THE MSB, on its own,
Lake Phalen has prompt- delivered this week to the conducted a project as-
pd more than 500 East s t a t e 's Environmental sessment which is now
Siders to seek a full envi- Quality Council (EQC). being reviewed by engi-
ronmental analysis of a neers and the interested
massive sanitary sewer That council will decide public. The final MSB as-
project scheduled for con- Sept. 10 whether to order sessment could presuma-
struction this fall and win- an environmental assess- bly satisfy the Council
ter. ment of the $6 million that an assessment has
Metropolitan Sewer Board been made.
A 500-plus-signature pe- , (MSB) project. The as- Nevertheless, the sewer
tition, circulated largely s e s s m e n t, if ordered,
by a group called Con- could be followed by the See Phalen, Page 21
In
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Continued from Page 19 ingly lower depths — up,
board's "Belt Line Inter- to 65 feet deep in places—
theh
ceptor" was tentatively pip
trench in lwhaid
the
p
scheduled for a construe pipe will be laid will be
extremely wide at ground
tion start early this fall,to level.
coincide with major street
realignment and recrea- EAST SIDERS are con
tion facility changes that cerned about surface dis-
will be made at Phalen by ruption, but are mainly
the St. Paul Community uneasy about the threat it
Services department. poses for fragile Lake
But the taking of an en- Phalen.
vironmental assessment Engineers have warned
will delay,the project until that construction of the
at least Feb. 1, and the or- deep trenches could liter-
dering of an enm e en- all knock the bottom out
tal impact s t a t t e m e n t of the lake, causing a re-
could delay it much long- turn of the serious see-
er.
page problems that peri-
DESPITE WHAT has odically lower the lake
been called a desperate level.
immediate need for the Meanwhile, the MSB
new sewer by Maplewood ter level and flow tests in
and other northern sub- has conducted groundwa-
urbs, MSB officials say at least 30 locations
they will not begin con- around the s o u t h w e s t
'struction until the environ shore of the lake.Markers
mental assessment satis at those sites have
fies all questions regard prompted an errneous ru
ink possiblemor that construction is
Lake PhPhaalenn.. effects on about to begin along a
The new sewer, which designated route.
will range in size from 33
inches in diameter to six MSB officials, however,
feet, will run from just said the sewer route could
west of White Bear Lake change dramatically, de-
parallel to Hwy. 61 south pending on the outcome'of
to Phalen Park. the environmental moni-
Since the gravity sewer toring and assessment
is to be buried at increas- procedure.