Agenda - Council - 01/14/2003 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I I ,I I I I I I I I ! I I I i I ! I I acquire fee and easement interests in certain State-owned lands adjacent to its Sunwood Drive right-of-way to enable construction of the public street extensions; and WHEREAS, the City initiated the action captioned above to condemn the lands described on the attached Exhibit A (the "Premises") which it deemed necessary for the public street extensions; and WHEREAS, the State consented to the City's condemnation; and WHEREAS, the Premises are a portion of the lands commonly identified as the Anoka/Ramsey Closed Landfill (the "Landfill") for which the State has assumed various responsibilities, including responsibilities for environmental response actions, under the authority of the Landfill Cleanup Program, Minn. Stat. § 1,15B.39 et seq., and that Agreement entitled "Landfill Cleanup Agreement Between Waste Management of Minnesota, Inc. and the Commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Pursuant to Minn. Stat. §§ 115B.39- 115B.46," recorded with the Anoka County Recorder on March 11, 1998, as document no. 1326786; and WHEREAS, the State, as part of its environmental response actions, is treating the groundwater beneath the Landfill which involves, in part, a State-owned water treatment building, a State-owned sanitary sewer line, and a State-owned water discharge line (the "utility lines"), which utility lines serve the water treatment building; and WHEREAS, the Sunwood Drive ROW proceeds generally west-to-east, bisects lands owned by the State at the Landfill, and is located between that part of the Landfill where waste was deposited (which is north of the Sunwood Drive ROW) and the State's water treatment building (which is south of the Sunwood Drive ROW); and -211-