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III. UTILITIES PLAN <br /> 410 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 /> B. 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 <br /> have 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 <br /> (street maintenance, fire, office space), and park and recreation. <br /> 4111 <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 <br /> ditch system. <br /> C. CURRENT STATUS <br /> The City currently provides sanitary sewer, storm sewer and water to a portion of its residents. <br /> The status of each system is as follows: <br /> 1. Sanitary Sewer <br /> The City's wastewater treatment plant was originally constructed in the early 1960s. It is <br /> located between U.S. Highway 169 and the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks near the UPA <br /> power plant. It was reconstructed in 1978. In 1994, the City undertook the first phase of a <br /> major upgrade. With these improvements, the City constructed a trickling filter tower which <br /> restored the plant's original hydraulic design capacity to 1,040,000 gallons per day. The plant is <br /> currently 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 />