Agenda - Council - 09/13/1982 - Special

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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ME TROP. OL I TAN COU N C I L Suite 300 Metro Square Building, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 MEMORANDUM August 30, 1982 TO: Metropolitan Waste Management Advisory Committee FROM: Environmental Planning (Lynne Takemoto) SUBJECT: Evaluation and Recommendation for Anoka County's Candidate Landfill Site P, Ramsey Metropolitan Council District 12 Metropolitan Council Referral File No. 10246-3 INTRODUCTION Anoka County has submitted to the Metropolitan Council for review a proposed candidate landfill site tn the city of Ramsey. The site is one of four pro- posed by the county as candidate sanitary landfill sites as required by the state Waste Management Act (WMA). The site has been certified by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) as intrinsically suitable for use as a solid waste landfill. A fifth site was not certified by the MPCA as suitable for either a sanitary or demolition landfill. AUTHORITY FOR REVIEW The WMA (Minn. Stat., sec. 473.803, subd. Ia) requires each of the metropolitan counties to adopt, for submittal to the Metropolitan Council, an inventory of four proposed sites in the county suitable for disposal of mixed municipal solid waste and one proposed site suitable for demolition debris. No site may be adopted by the county as part of its inventory unless the MPCA has certified the site as intrinsically suitable for its intended use. The Council is required to review each site for consistency with its Solid Waste Management Development Guide/Policy Plan and to evaluate candidate sites in accordance with guidelines set forth in the WMA. Sites approved by the Council remain in the county's inventory. PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Ramsey site (Site P) is approximately one mile north of Hwy. 10 and just west of County Rd. 57. Figure I shows the proposed site boundaries.* Anoka County has proposed to acquire a 119-acre site which includes 95 acres as fill area and 24 acres as buffer. A surrounding off-site buffer of 129 acres has also been delineated. l~ne site is within an i~dustrial area in Ramsey. At present the site ts essentially undeveloped; sand is being excavated from a portion of it. The existing and planned use of lands south of the site is commercial-industrial. Approximately 700 feet southwest of the site is the Gateway North Industrial Airport (private). Land to the west is planned to be industrial. The Anoka *Site boundaries as adopted by resolution of the Anoka County Board on Aug. 24, 1982.