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I I I July 6, 1982 Ms. Lynnel Tscamotto 300 Metro~ Squ~re 7th St. & Robert St. St. Paul, MN 55101 Dear Lynne;, WASTE MANAGL:,-;:&i'JT BOARD 123 THORSON BUILDING 7323 58TH AVENUE NORTH TELEPHONE CRYSTAL. MINNESOTA 55428 M~TRO AREA [612) 53~-0B18 GU]STAlE 1 800.652 9747 I am writing to you about the use and expansion of solid waste ]andfills~ ~n ~noka County'. I I I I I I I I I I i I As a WaterlWe'.ll Drilling Contrac'tor of over forty years, I feel that I have a~ working knowledge of the metro area, We are located in: th,e City of Ramsey, and have well records and logs of over 600 A~noka County wells. I have also been a member of the o Waste Managemient Board since its inception. '. Anoka County .has more permeable soils than any of the seven counties and ishould have been eliminated from the study, but since the Met~ro Council pressured MPCA into allowing landfills with a cl~y~p{lus liner, leacbate collection system, a new aspect has developed! for the Ramsey landfill. The installation of a new landfill icontiguous to the present one is obviously no mor'e than an expan!sion of the present system. The use of a ?ethane gas collection system is now under study. The only reasio~ for the gas collection is to offset the cost of the leachate 'system which is not viable without offsetting the cost. : From studies and reports made by the W-MB, it is obvious that the methane gas riecovery system is not anything you would want in close prolxltm~ty to s new housing area of expensive homes. (Encl'osed is Cathy Moo=e's report of the Chicago methane gas operation.) The aspectls o,f this gas collection has only begun. The City ~o!f ~amsey insists that the sewer syst-em should be extended t!o t;he small industrial area to the south of the present landfill. S~nce the expansion of the landfill is down the center of the Ind~ust;Irial Park, we no longer have a usable industrial area - thu:s the big need for the sewer would have to be for the use of the.leachate collection s-ystem proposed for the landfill. BOARD MEMBERS: DISTRICT 1 , ~_AtJR~NCE HUNTER. Hasling~ DIS'JRICT 2. ~KEITI~KUITERS, Clark& Grove OIS]RICT ~ r ~ILLI~M KIRCHN~R. R,chheld = =~., ...continued DISTRICT 5 LOUISE KUDERLING. Minneapohs DISTRICT 6 THOM. AS RENNER. Elk River ' DISTRICT 7 ALLAN EIDE. Hdlerdal D!~I°:CT fl DAVID HARTLVY. ~derm,4,-down