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<br />7.2.1.4Estimated Cost <br /> <br />Approximately $500 - $1,000. Costs will include City staff time, mailer printing and postage costs, and <br />handbook printing costs. <br />7.2.1.5Goals Achieved <br /> <br />Through the MDH handbook, well owners will be educated concerning the proper operation and <br />maintenance of wells. Proper operation and maintenance of wells will reduce the potential risk of these <br />wells becoming pathways for contaminants to travel from the ground surface to the source water aquifer. <br />Success criterion: Notification of well owners in the DWSMAs by mail that information on the proper <br />operation and maintenance of private wells is available <br />within one year of MDH approval of the WHPP and tracking of the number of well owners to whom the <br />notification is sent. <br />7.2.2Promote the Proper Sealing of Unused, Unmaintained, Damaged, or <br />Abandoned Wells within the DWSMAs <br />City staff will promote the proper sealing of unused, privately owned wells within the DWSMAs. As <br />indicated in Table 3, the highest priority will be placed on those wells that are completed in the source <br />water aquifer from which the Ramsey municipal wells pump and areas under current and near term <br />development. <br />Proper sealing of unused wells can be promoted by periodically mailing a reminder to owners of wells <br />, in the <br />Ramsey Resident newsletter, and working with the ACMWPG to post reminders on the Know the Flow <br />website. The reminder will include a notification of the low interest loan program available through Anoka <br />County for the sealing of unused wells and a link to the section of the Know the Flow website that has <br />information related to sealing of unused wells. Proper sealing of unused wells at properties on which new <br />development approval process. <br />7.2.2.1Source of Action <br /> <br />City staff <br />7.2.2.2Cooperators <br /> <br />ACMWPG <br />7.2.2.3Time Frame <br /> <br />The first reminders to owners of wells identified as high priority will all occur within two years of approval <br />of this Plan. <br /> <br /> <br /> 22 <br /> <br />22 <br /> <br />