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• III. UTILITIES PLAN <br />A. INTRODUCTION <br />The City is concerned with providing cost effective water and sanitary sewer and storm sewer <br />services to areas of the City designated for urban density development. Extension of such <br />services is intended for use as a tool to direct urban expansion in an orderly manner. <br />GOALS AND POLICIES <br />The following is a summary of the City's goals and policies as they relate to utilities. <br />1. GOAL: Provide and maintain adequate and efficient levels of public services within the <br />community. <br />POLICIES: <br />• Allow the extension of sewer and water lines only after presently serviced areas have <br />been developed to near capacity. <br />• Develop and maintain on a continuing basis a five year capital improvements <br />program and budget for the development, expansion, upgrade, and replacement <br />of municipal systems (sewer, streets, water, storm sewer), municipal equipment (street <br />maintenance, fire, office space), and park and recreation. <br />• • Provide storm sewers to those areas no longer adequately drained by natural <br />systems. <br />• Encourage the extension of sewer and water lines on a cost effective basis without <br />undue burden to the taxpayers. <br />• Coordinate with Sherburne County jurisdictional responsibility of current county ditch <br />system. <br />C. CURRENT STATUS <br />The City currently provides sanitary sewer, storm sewer and water to a portion of its residents. The <br />status of each system is as follows: <br />Sanitary Sewer <br />The City's wastewater treatment plant was originally constructed in the early 1960s. It is located <br />between U.S. Highway 169 and the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks near the UPA power <br />plant. It was reconstructed in 1978. In 1994, the City undertook the first phase of a major <br />upgrade. With these improvements, the City constructed a trickling filter tower which restored <br />the plant's original hydraulic design capacity to 1,040,000 gallons per day. The plant is currently <br />treating approximately 700,000 gallons per day, or about 70 percent of capacity. <br />The second phase of the current upgrade is scheduled for 1996 or 1997 and would raise the <br />. hydraulic design capacity of the treatment plant to 2.2 million gallons per day. The system <br />currently serves approximately 1,680 residents, commercial, and industrial users within its service <br />24 <br />