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I I I I I I I I I i I I I I I I I METROPOLITAN COUNCIL Suite 300 Metro Square Building, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 MEMORANDUM March 12, 1982 TO:. Metropolitan Council FROM: Environmental Planning (Lynne Takemoto) SUBJECT: Preliminary Evaluation of Anoka County's Candidate Landfill Site Inventory, Site E, East Bethel Metropolitan Council District 13 Metropolitan Council Referral File No. 10246-2 INTRODUCTION Anoka County has submitted to the Metropolitan Council for review a proposed candidate landfill site in East Bethel. The site is one of four proposed by the county as candidate sanitary landfill sites as required by the Waste Man- agement Act (WMA). The site has been certified by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) as intrinsically suitable for use as a solid waste land- fill. A fifth site for demolition debris has not yet been certified by the MPCA. AUTHORITY FOR REVIEW 'The WMA (Minnesota Statutes, Section 473.803, Subd. la) 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 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 Site E is near the center of East Bethel. It is approximately one-half mile east of Hwy. 65, south of County Rd. 74. (A second site in East Bethel, Site R, has not yet received MPCA action as to its intrinsic suitability.) At present the site is primarily used for agriculture. It adjoins the existing East Bethel Landfill. There are six residences within 1,000 feet of the pro- posed fill area; a number of these homes are owned by the current landfill oper- ators. Booster .Park and the East Bethel City Hall abut the site on the north. A Type III wetland and Neds Lake are adjacent to the site on the south.