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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Mr. Elwyn Tinklenberg Paga 3 September 11, 1990 The city's comprehensive plan has since 1980 (copy attached) designated a 1000' shoreland management area around wetlands ll?W, !18W and 667W. This has repeatedly b~_en brought _to the County's attention-yet no satisfactory response has been given as to why this is not considered. The controls Withi~.~ch-is zone are similar to the 1000' shoreland management zone around Sunfish Lake. While the approximate limits of waste placement have been adequately defined, the primary concerns have been distinguishing ground water contamination from the existing fill vs. new, impacts on monitoring wells, impacts on remedial action, and potential liability complicated by the existing situation. Further, too much reliance should not be placed on an, as yet, unproven remedial action when assuring that any future contamination can be remediated. Transportation The minutes of July 11 state that the City of Ramsey plans a collector street which would traverse Site P. The City haS, in fact, had this collector street planned as a part of its transportation thoroughfare plan since mid-1970's. The response (#8) to the query regarding impact on community transportation plans which was mailed with the August 7 agenda is extremely superficial. It is yet unclear whether transportation and related noise impacts portray accurately the impacts of the proposed sites since the traffic impacts are related to transport of borrow material for liner and waste with no mention of cover material. At the very least, traffic impacts can be expected to occur over a longer period of time when one considers hauling of material for cover as well. Noise We would like to see some data supporting the response to our earlier query as to whether the noise impact analysis considered beeper noise from equipment operating in reverse. We believe that since the noise analysis does not include a discussion of noise impacts from potential borrow sources to the regional transportation system that the number of receptors and impacts are seriously understated. Mitigation of noise impacts was not addressed in the technical memorandum as was indicated in the scoping decision.