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STATE OF MINNESOTA WASTE MANAGEMENT BOARD 123 THORSON BUILDING 7323 58TH AVENUE NORTH CRYSTAL, MINNESOTA 55428 ROBERT G. DUNN CHAIRMAN TELEPHONE: METRO AREA (612) 536-0B16 OUTSTATE 1-800-652-9747 I i July 6, 1982 Ms. Lynne Tscamotto I 300 Metro Square 7th St. & Robert St. St. Paul, MN 55101 I Dear Lynne: I am writing to you about the use and expansion/of solid waste landfills in Anoka County. I I I I I As a Water Well Drilling Contrac'tor of over forty years, I feel- that I have a working knowledge of the metro area.. We are located in the City of Ramsey, and have well records and logs of over 600 Anoka County wells. ~I have also been a member of the Waste Management Board since its .inception. Anoka County has more permeable soils than any of the seven counties and should have been eliminated from the study, but since the Metro Council pressured MPCA into allowing landfills with a clay-p'lus liner, leachate collection system, a new aspect has developed for the Ramsey landfill. The installation of a new landfill contiguous to the present one is obviously no mor'e than an expansion of the present system. I ! I I I I The use of a methane gas collection system is now under study. The only reason 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 recovery system is not anything you would want in close proximity to a new housing area of expensive homes. (Enclosed is Cathy Moore's report of the Chicago methane gas operation.) The aspects of this gas collection has only begun. The City of Ramsey insists that the sewer system should be extended to the small industrial area to the south of the present landfill. Since the expansion of the landfill is down the center of the Industrial Park, we no longer have a usable industrial area - thus the big need for the sewer would have to be for the use of the leachate collection system proposed for the landfill. ! I I BOARD MEMBERS: DISTRICT 1 LAURENCE HUNTER, Hastings f DISTRICT 2 KEITH KUITERS, Clarks Grove D~STRICT ;3 WILLIAM KIRCHNER, Richfield DICTQ'F.T 4 MILTON K'~OLL. JR, Wn*~. R,.~.' I.~L~ .,.continued DISTRICT 5 LOUISE KUDERLING, Minneapolis DISTRICT 6 THOMAS RENNER. Elk River ' DISTRICT 7 ALLAN EIDE, H~tte~dal OISTPfCT B DAVID HARTLFY. Herrn~qlo',vn