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Utilities and Taxes <br /> The Municipal Water System, with two City water towers, buys water from <br /> Roseville which in turn is supplied from the City of St. Paul. St. Paul draws water <br /> from the Mississippi River, wells, and lakes in the Rice Creek Watershed District. <br /> The pumping capacity is 3000 gallons per minute, and its storage capacity is <br /> 1,500,000 gallons. The average daily demand is 950,000 gallons with a peak <br /> demand of 2,100,000. Tap water hardness is 5 ppm. The industrial water rate is <br /> as follows: <br /> Summer $2.09/1,000 gallons <br /> Winter $1.99/1,000 gallons <br /> The Sanitary Sewer Service is part of the Metropolitan Sewer District managed by <br /> the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission. The rate for industrial sewer usage <br /> is: <br /> $2.69/1,000 gallons of water usage <br /> . Natural gas and electricity is provided by Northern States Power. Rates are <br /> comparable to those in neighboring suburban communities. <br /> Telephone is provided by US West and waste hauling is provided by a wide <br /> variety of companies. <br /> Minnesota real estate taxes are based on market value, which is considered to be <br /> the price the going buyer will pay to a willing seller in a free market. Tax capacity <br /> times the tax rate equals property taxes. Tax capacity is the value of the property <br /> under 100,000 times 3% plus any value over $100,000 times 4.6%. The 1994 total <br /> tax capacity rate was 132.230 and includes the City, County, School District, and <br /> other taxing districts. <br />