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eeo (9 Ramaeet 14100 ST. FRANCIS BLVD. N. W. ANOKA, MINNESOTA 55303 427 -1410 January 30, 1975 - 2 - the basis of the year 2050 population, but that facilities to which that sewage would be •discharged would be designed on the basis of an estimated year 2030 population of 14,900. The result of this manipulation of numbers is that it is proposed to size the facility which would receive Ramsey's sewage on the basis of a popula- tion Ramsey expects before 1990 and a reader of the narrative report would be led to believe that the system will be adequate for all of Ramsey's pro - jected sewage flow until the year 2050. We would point out to the Commission and the Metropolitan Council that the source of both the year 2030 and 2050 population projections tabulated in the report is the same agency that projected a 1985 population in Ramsey that was exceeded in 1973. It is our belief that a reasonable population projection for the year 2050 for the city of Ramsey would be at least 58,500. In the course of Ramsey's incorporation proceedings, an expert from the Metropolitan Council characterized the Council's latest population projec- tions as the population objectives of the Council's planners. The use of such totally unsupportable planning objectives for a facility as expensive and as permanent as an interceptor sewer system approximately 15 miles long without any of the controls necessary to achieve those objectives is extremely short - sighted. This is particularly true in the case of Ramsey which is at the extremity of the entire interceptor system and which is located upstream from the entire metropolitan area where an undersized sewerage facility will create the very problem the Metropolitan Council and Waste Control Commission are charged to prevent and eliminate. We would hasten to add at this point that we would not want to see any unit of government with the powers necessary to control the population of every one of it's governmental subdivisions within the limits currently being suggested by the Metropolitan Council staff. A second point of concern to Ramsey is the presentation of alternates for the Anoka segment of the proposed interceptor system. XII -30