HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973 05-03 Maplewood Won't Adopt County Drainage Policy DISPATCH Maplewood Won't Adopt
Cqy nt Drainage
Policy. 1 '73
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Maplewood has re- His reference was to a require conformance
fused to adopt Ramsey controversial resolution with the county drainage
County's drainage poli- adopted by the county policyin reviewing
board June 21, 1971, call-
cy. each development in the
Mostly, it's "too am- ing for communities to villa ,,e,"Miller said.
biguous" Village Manag- assume the responsibili- Unfortunately," h e
er Michael Miller said in ty of "removing pollu- said, fot does not appeae
defending the communi- tants" and controlling that the county has been
ty government's posi- the "original rate" of. consistent in its enforce-
tion. runoff water flow into ment . . . in surrounding
He also accused the lakes, streams and communities."
county of inconsistent. ditches. The county's executive
application of the two- ."Maplewood has con- secretary, James Swan,
year-old policy. sistently attempted to . mentioned the policy in
letters dated March 7 to
St.Paul and all suburbs.
"The county attor-
ney, he explained, "has
suggested that each mu-
nicipality be requested
to adopt ordinances per-
taining to the (policy) so.
that (they) may have
control within their ju-
risdiction."
Maplewood Manager
Miller said the county's
original policy and re-
quest fora adoption of _or—
dinances "lack adequate
clarity and are ambigu-
ous in nature.
"Although we have
consistently asked the
county. for clarification
relative to meanings of
the words 'pollutants' or
the 'original rate,' we
have received no such
clarification," he added.
"Without (this), the
county is encouraging a
proliferation of unlike
regulations."
Miller also reported
that the county proposes
no solution to upstream
flowage from neighbor-
ing Washington County.