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I I I ! I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I -$ - The site appears consistent with the immediate surrounding land use, zoning and planned use for the area. The site does not conflict with the Council's poli- cies and siting criteria respecting local land use and land use controls. Council policy requires that sites be ~isually compatible with adjacent prop- erty; specifically, residential and other nonindustrial uses are compatible only if there are barriers to reduce noise and obscure public view. The site is well screened on the north. Additional screening may be necessary for resi- dential development northwest of the site and along the eastern part of the site. Planned land uses to the south and west are industrial. Existin9 and Future Development Patterns Figure 3 shows the City of Ramsey's proposed Metropolitan Urban Service Area and "urban planning area" designations. Urban services are planned to be introduced in areas south and east of the site over the coming decade. There is also a possibility that services will be provided west of the site by the year 2000. The industrial land directly south of the site has locally been planned to receive sewer service in 1984. Ramsey is also in the preliminary phases of planning to provide municipal water service. Lands north of the site are not planned for sewer or water service in the near futures but will continue as low-density residential development areas. The Gateway North Industrial Air@orr is approximately 700 feet southwest of the site. No expansion of this small private facility is currently planned. It appears that the site would not adversely impact the area's existing and future development patterns. Environmental Impacts The proposed site is located within the Anoka sandplain, a series of glacial outwash plains. Well logs from the area show a 35- to 60-foot surface mantle of sand and gravel, underlain by gray silty till, with discontinuous layers of clay and gravel. The till depth ranges from approximately 100 to 150 feet. The first bedrock formation is the St. Lawrence, which functions as a confining layer and is not an aquifer. Underlying the St. Lawrence are Franconia, Iron- ton and Galesville formations which are aquifers used for water supply pur- poses. Figure 4 shows a geological cross section for the area. The majority of wells in the surrounding area are finished in the upper Fran- conia formation which is artesian. The remaining wells are finished in the glacial till. No water supply wells have been identified in the overlying sand mantle. The report, Evaluation of Water Resources~ Monitoring~ Sanitary Land- fills of Anoka Count~*i(from which much of the above information is taken), notes, t'hat it ~s doubtful that the surficial aquifer is used as a source of potable water. Local well codes prohibit construction of new wells in this aquifer and in the upper drift aquifer. Groundwater is encountered within the sandy mantle. Soil borings taken on the site recorded groundwater at depths ranging between 9.5 and 24.5 feet. Fig- ure 5 shows groundwater contours for the surficial aquifer. The surficial * Bart Engineering, 1981.