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leachate contamination to groundwater, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS the County of Anoka has permitted the landfill operation to <br /> continue in violation of the County's requirements for the <br /> reporting of ground water monitoring, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS the landfill as operated promotes rather than limits the <br /> contamination of groundwater and preliminary monitoring <br /> results already show evidence of heavy metal contamination <br /> in one of the two monitoring wells sampled for that purpose, <br /> and <br /> <br />WHEREAS the deposition and storage of sewage treatment plant sludge <br /> has been permitted on the landfill site without a permit <br /> from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, a practice which <br /> after a complaint from the City of Ramsey was discontinued <br /> without regard to the ultimate disposition of the sludge so <br /> deposited and stored, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS the City of Ramsey has on numerous occasions requested an answer <br /> to the question of liability resulting from damages to public <br /> health and safety and no answer to this question has been <br /> forthcoming. <br /> <br />NOW THEREFORE be it resolved by the Ramsey City Council that: <br /> <br /> 1. Inasmuch as the government subdivision and the proprietory <br /> corporation for the operation and control of the Anoka Landfill <br /> have not exercised their authority to operate and regulate the <br /> Landfill in the best interest of the public health, welfare and <br /> <br /> -2- 5/24/76 <br /> <br /> <br />