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I I I I I I i I I i ! i Alternative Waste Management Systems Study (to be studied) Character and Location Presently the MWCC is not responsible for waste- water treatment facilities outside the 1990 Urban Service Area (except for two small facilities they now own). However, in keeping with MWCC and Metro- politan Council responsibilities for sewage disposal and prevention of pollution in the Metropolitan Area, this study will review proposed state regulations for construction and maintenance of on-site disposal systems, identify pollution problems in the Rural Service Area, and describe general courses of action for local governments that are appropriate to Develop- ment Framework policies. The responsibility for specific facility planning and operation of treatment facilities still rests with the local units of government. Timing This study is included in the first phase of the MWCC's 201 Facilities Planning Program and is scheduled to start in summer 1977. It encompasses the On-Site Disposal and Rural Area Problems Studies listed in the Waste Management Policy Plan. General Planning Considerations Issues Included in the approval of the CAB facility was a condition that all communities scheduled to receive service through the CAB prior to 1990 must adopt a timing and staging plan for the area to be served by the CAB. This plan should be consistent with and an integral part of the 201 facility planning and Metropolitan Land Planning Act implementation process. Ramsay, as one of the affected communities, should build upon its recent comprehensive plan amendment in meeting this requirement. One of the issues it should deal with is its need and timing for service through the western connection' of the CAB as discussed above. A second issue to be dealt with is the need for future connections to the CAB. The CAB Study Committee recommended t~o extensions of the facility, one of which would be a northerly branchbd extension paralleling T.H. 47 to the city of Ramsey corporate limits to provide future capacity to that portion of the city lying within the Rum River watershed. Since this extension is not included in-the l~;aste Management Policy Plan, it is not included as part of the CAB as presently proposed. To obtain consi- deration of this extension, Ramsey should through its local planning process document future sewer service needs in the sewer element of the comprehensive plan. ~Vhen this plan is reviewed by the MIAfCC and the Council, a determination of the need to include the extension or other metropolitan facilities in the Policy Plan and hence MIA;CC Development Program will be made.