HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972 08-01 Maplewood May Establish Independent Water System DISPATCH Maplewooc
Independent Water System
By JIM BROEDE suiting engineers Kirk- ter," he stated, "but we wells, but over a ion- Some five water tow-
Staff Writer ham-Micahel to pro- wouldn't soften it."
Maplewood's Village ceed with detailed stud- The "lesser treat- grThgehe first
period. se con- bes alsolwould,have to
erected. he Council is courting a ies on ways to establish ment" proposal seemed struction four
wop da include of them almost immedi-
proposal to establish an "an independent water to catch the fancy of a five wells, all in north- ately.
independent water sys- system." majority of the council, east Maplewood if the Proposed locations in-
tern for the community A preliminary study but especially Council- c o m m u n i t y goes to elude the n o r t h e a s t
f r o m groundwater by the consultants indi- man Don Wie ert.
sources. g "full treatment." corner of the village,
sated "abandoning St. 0 n I y, Councilman But with l i m i t e d the western edge, the
The village of 26,000 Paul" would be feasi-, Harald Haugan was treatment, the wells vicinity of Hwy. 36 at
residents presently re-. ble. leary of it, based on could be s c a t t e r e d the east edge and along
lies heavily on St. Paul Village Engineer Bob- comments at the meet- throughout the commu- Stillwater Road in the
for water. by D. Collier told the ing. •nity, Collier said. village's south leg.
But more than 3,000 council, based on the W i e g e r I suggested
homes have their own preliminary study, that that individual home 4¢<::::: >vy;:. =:,a•;::::�r,:;: .:. s,,,: ..: ,,:;:z. :.;:.;t,.,,,::., ,
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staying with St. Paul owners who insist on :> "'" `"' '" "'"'' "''"
And parts of the vii- will cost the village an "softened water" can
S: Pao- lowt
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lage are serviced by estimated $1,188,000 an- buy their own softeners.
North St. Paul. nually over the next 20 "I've had a softener ~ '� �li '•
However, the Village years, in my house since pI;
Council at a special To establish the inde- 1:957;" he pointed out, k'
meeting last week vot- pendent system, with "and it cost -me less EAST AREA
ed 5-0 to authorize con- water quality identical than$100."
to that in St. Paul, He also talked favora-
w o u 1 d run about bly of "local control" " Section
$1,733,000 annually over over the water system. r
the same 20-year peri Now the village has ,: sw< y ; ;,
'szr4x' E3od he explained. virtually no control
But the cost could be over the water rates es- TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1972
reduced to $911,000 an- tablished by St. Paul,' -
nually, with a "lesser he said.
treatment" of the wa- And Collier reported
ter, according to Col- that the average rates
Tier. paid now .by homeown-
"We'd still chlorinate ers in Maplewood are
and fluorinate the wa- about 35 per cent higher
than the average rates
in St. Paul.
Various capital im-
provements would 'be '
necessary for an inde='
pendent water system
in Maplewood, the engi-
neer warned, possibly
including construction
of a treatment plant,
most likely in the-north-
west corner of the vil-
lage.
The Kirkham-Micahel
study also proposed 20