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/ " '"........ '.' ... ',,"'.~ .... -t. 3 . vote and we knew we would lose it beeausethlngs Uke that are never decided by voting. The verypeopfe against it, after the " sewer came in, were the ones very ple..,dwithit. One man invited me at McCarrons Lake to see the sewer COnnection and I had known him for many years. I went inside the house and he said look at the toilet how it flushes and he said before this I cut down the volume of the water in the bowl from eight gallons to five and from five to three and then it wouldn't -flush . I said, would you have voted for it and he said no, I would have voted against it. Rosevillewould have voted three to one agllinst s._wer at that tiM. The Council went against it. The subseqUent ad~iriistration supported it and right now they are finishing Imp~ovemept Ne. 2 and they're. going to start No. 3 and by next year I understand 95% of Roseville . will have sewer. I attended a meeting of the Governor's last month. Only the Mayors were invited and I happened to go because I thought I'll see what went on. I was about to see the names of some of the villages close to us that are or have contamiftation from 37% to 83%. Meunds View where we hav.the Edgewood Junior High School and the wells are enly 35 feet deep and cesspools 25 feet and it's all sand and we have a heavy contamination of that area. Also there were places like Coon Rapids and Spring Lake Park. Blaine in Anoka County. Those are the villagu .the State Board of Health had gone over and inspected. Our area just got sewer started today. They started digging today. I live in Arden Hills 3 next to Nazareth Hall and I think we should just go right ahead and support and Council and this is . one of the items you have to have. Vou can't life here the same kind of a life that the city peepl. do. Vour bouse. are close to