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Authorizing City staff to execute The Heights - Intercommunity Wastewater Agreement (St Paul-Maplewood), as prepared in collaboration with the City of Maplewood.
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WHEREAS the CITY OF SAINT PAUL, a home rule charter City under the laws of the State of Minnesota, (hereinafter referred to as “ST. PAUL”), and the CITY OF MAPLEWOOD, a municipal corporation of the State of Minnesota (hereinafter referred to as “MAPLEWOOD”); and
WHEREAS, the proposed The Heights development will generate new wastewater flow volumes that are proposed to discharge to St. Paul and Maplewood sewers; and
WHEREAS, the new wastewater flow from The Heights project which is located in St. Paul, will be metered with other wastewater flows from St. Paul at existing Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (hereinafter referred to as “MCES”) flow meters; and
WHEREAS, St. Paul and Maplewood previously executed a Joint Use Agreement on the 12th day of September 2005 regarding the transfer of ownership of a portion of MCES Interceptor 1-SP-214 from MCES to St. Paul and the conditions of joint use of the interceptor by St. Paul and Maplewood, attached in Exhibit 1B; and
WHEREAS, St. Paul and Maplewood previously executed Document No. 654 in April 1988 regarding intercommunity flow from Maplewood Districts 34 and 36 through St. Paul sewers tributary to MCES Interceptor 8566-371, attached in Exhibit 1C; and
WHEREAS, both St. Paul and Maplewood contribute flow to the interconnected sanitary sewer systems between The Heights site and existing MCES Interceptors 1-SP-214 and 8566-371 as depicted in Exhibit 2; and
WHEREAS, the parties wish to memorialize the changes to the Joint Use Agreements, dated the 12th day of September 2005 and April 1988, to account for wastewater flow volumes from the future The Heights development in St. Paul and existing wastewater flows from St. Paul and Maplewood; and NOW THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the City Council hereby authorizes the appropri...
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