Minutes - Council - 04/30/1979 - Special

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Special Council Meeting Apri~l.20~-!979- ?age 3 Mayor Gamec asked Don Otter if there were ways he could adhere to the ordinance. Mr. Otter replied that it is an inherent affluent of sanitary landfill operations to have wind blown paper, the nearby subdivision has had paper on a few occasions and he took steps to close operations but the problem is trucks have no place to go once they are loaded. They are constantly striving to develop new techniques to collect wind blown papers, aerodynamic studies have been done, studies on fencing and how high the paper goes, these are inherent affluents and there is no way of stopping it. They try to comply with all of the ordinances both PCA and County. In fighting winter, it is very difficult with the amount of snow to keep it all under- cover. They always have a Spring clean up recovery, it is very wet this year due to the rain and that is why they haven't got it all accomplished yet. Sue VanWagner asked Mr. Otter what he proposed to do to her backyard, is that her problem or his. Mr Otter - that is his problem. Sue VanWagner asked who would clean up the south side of the dump. Mr. Otter - it is the landfill's responsibility and he came to work with Mr. Johnson to set up schedules and they..:are trying out a new machine, a vacumn specifically for collecting wind blown paper. He had up to 25 people out in the subdivision picking up paper, and he is trying to maintain the continuity of keeping the inside picked up. Sue VanWagner asked if this has to be a ski hill. Mr. Otter - if it were to be left in the state it's in, it would be useless as a public park and the City of Anoka would resent it if it weren't going to be used as a park. It is not environmentally safe to leave it undone, surface water infiltration, generation of gas, lechate, it has to go up to be safe. Engineer Sha - It is the City's long range concern of what will happen now and as long as it is there, the worst thing is to stop it where it is. All rain water falling there and not runni.ng off will pick up something on its way through and contaminate the water. The point is the landfill is there, it isn't going to go away and the quicker the cover can be put on the better. The City's concern is to try and correct what has been done in the past and try to get a grade so that water will run off and minimize the time the landfill is soaking up water. Jana Hatch asked what is phase II. Mr. Otter - said the site was planned to develop in three phases: I-north phase, east and west II-strip on the southerly portion also east and west III-construction of ski hill down middle working form east to west, cap will be placed over phase I, II, III. Jana Hatch - she is also concerned about sun rights and solar heating which could be affected if the hill blocks the sun.