Minutes - Council - 04/30/1979 - Special

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Special Meeting-Council April 30, 1979 Page 10 Mayor Gamec reported that he will meet with the Anoka Sheriff and Mr. Hutchison regarding signs for the landfill. J. Hatch - What can be done to cut down on the dust. Mr. Otter - Install speed limit signs to control speed of traffic. S. VanWagner - Mr. Johnson told us there wouldn't be any dumping on our side this summer. Mr. Otter - In order to get that side done as soon as we can there is a chance we will be there this summer. Mr. Wyatt asked how they know what is in a load of garbage. Mr. Otter - He doesn't know but they do investigate anythi.ng questionable that is found. Mr. Hutchison -Equipment operators have pretty good recall, they are careful not to go over anything that looks flammable and pretty much know where the stuff comes from. Mr. Otter - They monitor all accounts as close as they can given the laws they have to operate with. They tell accounts if they brilng anythi.ng that isn't acceptable that we will stop them from dumping. Mayor Gamec thanked the citizens and the agencies for coming to the meeting. He said the City needs their help regarding getting a fair share of State Aid for the C~fy. He presented a pet~tion'for Council approval and citizens to sign to get some help, the City is petitioning the Governor and State Legislature. Motion by Councilman Sorteberg and seconded by Councilman Mickelson to authorize the petition to the Governor and State Legislature to waive the proposed State Aid formula because of the inequiti~es it contains. Motion carried. Voting yes: Mayor Gamec, Councilmen Cox, Mickelson, Reimann and Sorteberg. Voting no: None. Councilman Cox said there is a few questions people ought to ask the DNR and PCA. The reason this is walked around is because it is involving different government agencies that won't go hand ?n hand. In regards, to water testing, the City received very poor co'operation from the PCA and DNR. City Engineer sent letters to these agencies and they responded to it indicating there wasn't any problem here. The PCA can't get together with the Metro Waste and determine when the CAB interceptor will be av'ailable to sewer the City. PCA and Metro Waste don't know what is happening and they don't care. People want to know at what point they are contaminated and what to do about it. PCA responded saying they have 200 permit landfills, 130 comp. monitoring systems, 720 monitoring points which are analyzed on a quarterly basis. The PCA comes out and checks the landfill once a year. He had a lot of corres- pondence with Mr. Sha. Tb.e perimeter he requested were quite expensive, and PCA feels they have sufficient perimeter. Councilman Cox questioned that when there are high levels of whatever showing up, why doesn't the PCA pick it up instead of our staff.