HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973 01-18 $1.5-Million Sewer Projects Urged for Maplewood DISPATCH $ 1 • 5 -M
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Over $650,000 in trunk�,3The shopping center, south of County Road C Still other lesser proj- nue and Ferndale Street
3 e w e r construction in according to J. Thomas develops. , ects, ranging in cost and at Maryland and
she Hazelwood and Ma- Kirk, an engineer and a He also said there was from $3,000 to $79,000, Lakewood Drive. It also
plewood Heights neigh- spokesman for TKDA a possibility of insuffi- needed before 1978 in appears advantageous
yorhoods of Maplewood will cause some prob- cient capacity on White Kirk's opinion,include: to extend a branch sew-
las been listed among 15 lems because it will gen- Bear Avenue from Coun- A SEWER r u n n i n g er westward from the
ugh-priority projects erate about 1.1 million ty Road D to Lydia Ave- south from County Road existing t r u n k sewer,
recommended by con- gallons of waste water n u e if a substantial C along the approximate along Geranium Street
salting engineers. daily. amount of waste water a 1 i g n m e n t of Keller near Ferndale; to serve
All of the projects, Other large tracts ad- is added, as expected, Parkway. It's needed to low-density residential
w h i c h engineers say jacent to the shopping from nearby White Bear service t h e southwest development n o r t h of
should be completed by center, he added, are ex- Lake city. portion of the Kohlman Magnolia Avenue.
[978, have been estimat- petted to develop corn- Lake neighborhood. PHASE OUT a lift sta-
id to cost$1,531,000. mercially, thereby in- To deal with these ABANDONING of a tion on Century Avenue
Lesser-priority p r o j- creasing demands on the problems, Kirk urged lift station in the Sher- south of Margaret Ave-
acts, needed after 1978, sanitary sewer system. extension of the Beam wood Glen neighborhood nue by constructing a
?onsulting engineers Kirk told of capacity A v e n u e trunk sewer roughly north of Junc= gravity sewer to an in-
Foltz, King, Duvall & deficiencies, under pre- westward from Hazel- tion Avenue and west of terceptor.
rnderson (TDKA) say, sent flows, as being ap- wood Avenue to a pro- English Street by con- CONSTRUCT a major
will run about $1,232,000, parent on Lydia Avenue posed new White Bear s t r u c t i n g a gravity sewer extension in the
it today's prices. from White Bear Avenue Lake interceptor sewer, connection from County Vista Hills neighborhood
The Hazelwood-Maple- to about 1,000 feet east. plus a new trunk sewer Raod B and Paul Street' to provide service for
wood Heights neighbor- Still another deficien- from Beam A v e n u e to a new White Bear the area along Dorland
foods, the most sprawl- cy will develop in por- northeast behind corn- Lake interceptor. Road from Londin Lane
ng of 30 sewer service tions of a trunk sewer mercial property abut- IN THE B E A V E R to Mailand Road and
listricts in Maplewood, from Van Dyke Street ting Hwy. 61, then, east LAKE neighborhood, east on Mailand Road.
nclude a planned $30- and Kohlman Avenue to on County Road D. CA.4 waste water from the CONSTRUCT a trunk
pillion diversified shop- Kennard Street, south of area north of Maryland sewer on Carver Avenue
ging center due to open Beam A v e n u e, he Avenue should be than from.I 494 to just east of
nSeptember 1974. warned, when the area neled into the existing McKnight Road for
trunk sewer at two loca- planned low-density res-
tions: at Maryland Ave- idential development.
Kirk outlined the con-
struction proposals last
week during an informal
session of the village
council.
The council took no ac-
tion on his recommenda-
tions.
The biggest single
trunk sewer proposal,
estimated a t $308,000,
c a 11 s for construction
f r o m McKnight Road
and Maryland Avenue to
the present site of a vil-
lage lift station, in the
Hillside neighborhood.
The lift station, Kirk
said, ought to be aban-
doned in favor of gravity
service because of ca-
p a c it y limitations on
Larpenteur Avenue west
of McKnight Road.
The surrounding area,
consisting of about
acres, has been planned
for low- and medium-
density rsidential use.
Some high-density de-.
velopments are antici-
pMcKnht
ated which wouldbeRoad,
tributary to the pro-
posed trunk sewer.
Two lift stations in the
service district t
hat in-
n-
eludes south portions
the Hazelwood andK ohl-
\\ man Lake neigh
hoods could be eliminat-
ed with the construction
of $148,000 in trunk sew-
ers, again preferably by
1978,Kirk said.
An additional $63,000
project in the same area
probably will be neces-
sary after 1978, he add-
ed.
He cited a need for
$128,000 in trunk sewer
improvements in t h e
north and east portions
of the Parkside neigh-
borhood.
There, he stated, a lift
station should be aban-
doned if the new interr-
ceptor sewer elevation
makes it feaSih1P