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. CITY OF ARDEN HILLS MEMORANDUM DATE: April IS, 1998 TO: Brian Fritsinger, City Administrator FROM: Terrance Post, City Accountant@ SUBJECT: TCAAP Water System Considerations On March 19, 1998, you and I met with Commander Fix of the Twin City Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP) at Mr. Fix's invitation to discuss the facility water system. I believe the basic purpose of the meeting was to gauge the level of interest on behalf of the City of Arden Hills in assuming operating responsibility for the current water infrastructure system. During the course of the discussion, a number of issues surfaced. Following is a list of them in no particular pri 0 ri ty 0 rder. 1. The existing infrastructure system is approximately sixty (60) years old. This aging watermain layout is not necessarily supportive of future TCAAP development locations. . 2. Maintaining the existing system is extremely costly for the facility budget. In addition to low volume and maintenance cost factors, infrastructure repair and replacement capital costs are increasing annually. ~ From the facility's point of view, the best outcome would be to sell the existing water ~. system to an outside vendor, purchase water at or below current costs from the vendor, and absolve itself from all future infrastructure replacement liability issues by having the vendor own the sixty-year old system. 4. From the City's point of view, the best outcome would be to add TCAAP to the existing City water distribution system and have TCAAP be responsible for the capital costs of the new watermains by means of a connection fee. 5. By means of a prior agreement with the City of Mounds View, once the City of Arden Hills begins supplying water to the facility, TCAAP transfers from a Mounds View sanitary sewer customer to an Arden Hills sanitary sewer customer. .