Agenda - Council - 03/25/1986 - Laserfiche WebLink

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City CouncS1 Of Ramsey Minnesota ]5]53 Nowthen Blvd NW Ramsey, Minnesota 55303 Attn : CITY COUNCIL I I ! I I i I Gentlemen: I wasn't at the meeting but I read an account of it in our local paper. The waste manaoement corporation came to the meeting to explain their vertical expansion program. Their program would make the landfill higher allowing them to put steeper slopes on the site and make it more contamination proof. It is my understanding that it would be in their best interest to make the landfill as contamination proof as possible. I think they could move the material on top of the landfill to create the slopes they mentioned in the new plan without vertical expansion. They could also put on the proposed cap to stop water infiltation without a vertical expansion. I feel that it would be a sound financial investment for them to act responsibly in preventing contamination in as much as they will be held responsible for any contamination. My other desire regarding the landfill is that the City of Ramsey engages in viaorous neoociations with Waste Management Corporation to have the landfill site prepared so that it can, in the future, somehow can increase the tax base in Ramsey. I don't want it to be forever a blight. In other cities in the United States they even build on top of landfills. If that isn't possible, an agreement could be entered into now that the site will be made into to a park of some sort. I feel that Waste Management should do the improvements to the site to make it useable as a park as a minimum to repay the City of Ramsey for the landfills mountainous, less that appealing presence.