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TNORPE 1135 WEST ! I I I .I BLDG., ~ MAIN STREET,, ANOKA/ MINNESOTA 55303, TEL. 421-2503 TO: FROM: RE: March 16, 1982 John Rutford, Referral Coordinator ~ ~! Metropolitan Council, St. Paul 55101 . Anoka County SWCD Board of Supervisors Anoka County - Draft Environmental Impact Statement County R~ f/ll6 Extension from CSAH #7 to TH #47, Bridge Construction over the Rum River - Ramsey, Andover and Anoka - Metro Council Referral File ~1037~-1 I i I I I I The Anoka SWCD Board has reviewed and re-evaluated the Rum River bridge. construction project. The Board would like to point out some of their concerns and their choice of alternative sites. First of all, we want to point out that prime ag lands affected in this project range from no acres for alternative#A to about 6 acres for alternative #Da. Any alternative which removes prime ag land from pro- duction should be looked at from the standpoint of less food or other essentials being available for consumption in the future. Or, if the production from that lost land can be replaced by production from other farmland that is not prime land, the production will Cost us more in other finite resources, such as, energy and soil erosion. We agree the acreage pf prime land involved in any of the proposed routes is not large. But~ we do not believe the total future impact of all the little projects in this county can be ignored any longer. Each project must reduce its effect on loss of prime ag lands to the absolute minimum if we are ever going to appreciably slow the loss of our most productive land to projects like this which will remove this land from production for the foreseeable future. I I