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, Soils Ordinance ORDINANCE NO. 77- CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY, MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING MINIMUM REOUIREMENTS FOR THE INCORPORATION AND RESERVATION OF ADEQUATE AREAS OF SOILS CONDUCIVE TO SE~VAGE DISPOSAL FROM SEPTIC SYSTEMS INTO LOTS OR PARCELS CREATED BY THE SUBDIVISION OF LAND. The City Council of the City of Ramsey does hereby ordain: SECTION I - PURPOSES AND FINDINGS 1.1 The City of Ramsey determines that in ~reas not served by sanitary sewer, the effluent from septic tanks 'shall be disposed of by soil absorption in properly Constructed and effectively operating absorption systems. 1.2 The City determines that protection of the public health, safety and general welfare including the protection of natural resources from impairment, pollution and destruction with which it is charged by Minn. Stat~ 1973 Section 116 B.01 are advanced by permitting soil absorption systems only where soil permeability, surface slope, freedom from flooding and distance from groundwater ensure reasonable absorption without pollution of waters, such lands hereinafter being described as Class I lands. 1.3 The City finds that lands within it have unfavorable 'characteristics for soil absorption systems; such lands hereinafter being described as Class II, Iit, IV and V lands. 1.4 The City adopts the standard requirement that sufficient area of Class I land be available within each lot or parcel for the construction of an adequately sized soil absorption system and the reconstruction or duplication of the soil absorption or final disposal unit of that system. In no case shall the area of contiguous Class I land available on each lot be less than as follows: 1990 Urban Area Transitional Area Rural Area 50%-0f lot area 25% of lot area 25% of lot area Ail areas shall be exclusive of public rights of way, including publicly dedicated easements. 1.5 The City adopts the Anoka County Soil Survey, '1977 (Soil Survey) and supplemental operational soil surveys as its official soil survey and makes it a part of this ordinance, and a copy of which is on file with the City Clerk. The Soil Survey is a guide to establishing land classifications as defined herein. Land areas mapped and described in the Soil Survey as being acceptable for soil absorption systems does not constitute an implied or express warranty that such land zs in fact usable for this purpose.