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Howard R, Green Company March 7, 2002 File: 815360J-0240 Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Elk River 13065 Orono Parkway P.O. Box 490 Elk River, MN 55330-0490 RE: PARK POINTE ADDITION Dear Council Members: City staff and Bryan Adams from the Elk River Municipal Utilities have had an opportunity to review the attached memo from Cascade 1 Land Company regarding the extension of utilities along 175th Avenue and trunk assessments to the Park Pointe Development. We have also had several discussions with the Developer as their memo was being prepared. Based on these reviews, we would offer the following comments relative to the three items listed in the Developer's memo: We agree that the Developer should pay for the lateral sanitary sewer proposed to be extended down 175th Avenue from Tyler Street to Park Pointe Addition. This is a lateral line, eight inches in diameter, and without it Park Pointe will not be able to develop because of no sanitary sewer service. With regard to the Developer's not paying for water service, we would offer the following comments: · The water line is clearly a trunk facility, being 12 or 16 inches in diameter from the trunk line on Tyler Street to the Park Pointe Addition. The trunk line will continue through the Park Pointe Addition northerly to the new water tower site located just north of Park Pointe in the preliminary plat of Eagles Marsh. · Given that there is a water tower and trunk watermain facility located just north of Park Pointe Addition, clearly Park Pointe can develop without the watermain being constructed under 175th Avenue. Without the loop from Tyler Street down 175th Avenue to Park Pointe, their water service will not have any redundancy. In other words, it will essentially be a long dead-end running through the Park Pointe development until such time that a loop is completed by extending water down 175th Avenue to Tyler Street or looping northerly back to Kliever Lake Fields Addition. · Allowing a development such as Park Pointe for a period of time to be served by a long dead-end watermain extended from the water tower raises some potential problems. First of all, should there be a watermain break, the development will be without water for a period of time. Typically, in a watermain break situation, an emergency repair can be completed within 24 hours. The likelihood of a watermain break occurring on newly constructed watermain is relatively Iow. There are also potential problems with the quality of water, especially as new Ltr 3-6-02 Council 1326 Energy Park Drive · St. Paul, MN 55108 · 651/644-4389 fax 651/644-9446 toll free 888/368-4389