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October, 2021 <br />Volume 15, Issue 6 Gem Lake News <br />Special Interest <br />Articles: <br />•Well Situation <br />•City Budget for <br /> 2022 <br />•City News, Page 4 <br />Upcoming Recycling <br />Dates: <br />•October 6 <br />•October 20 <br />•November 3 <br />•Tip: put out <br />your bin the <br />night before <br />for 7 a.m. <br />pick-up. <br />Gretchen Artig-Swomley, Newsletter Editor <br />The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will host a <br />Zoom call for Gem Lake residents who wish to learn <br />the latest information available on city wells that have <br />shown slight contamination from a chemical <br />substance called 1,4 Dioxane. <br />A total of 15 wells in a small area of Gem Lake have <br />shown traces of this substance. Although this <br />presents a low health risk to humans, it is still <br />concerning. The MPCA has been working closely with <br />the city to determine the source of the contamination. <br />They are hosting the call at the city’s request on <br />Thursday October 14 at 7:00 p.m. <br />It is thought the organization will be able to present <br />the very latest information on testing that has been <br />conducted in various areas of the city, and around the <br />Water Gremlin site, which is located in nearby White <br />Bear Township. There is no data that currently <br />connects Water Gremlin with this well problem, <br />although no conclusions have been reached yet. <br />(Continued on page 3) <br />Meeting on Gem Lake Well Situation is Oct. 14 <br />A Gem Lake Workshop on Stormwater Flow on <br />Scheuneman Road has been scheduled for October 12 <br />at 7:00 p.m. at Heritage Hall. You are invited to attend. <br />After epic snowfall several years ago caused some <br />flooding issues on Scheuneman Road, the Gem Lake <br />City Council decided to hire the engineering firm SEH to <br />study the matter. The goal was to determine if anything <br />could be done to easier improve water flow in the future. <br />The firm SEH did fairly extensive mapping of the area <br />and took into account that the streets are semi-rural, <br />mostly without curbs and gutter systems, some houses <br />are older and are at grade level and the topography of <br />generations ago generally still exists. <br />(Continued on page 4) <br />Stormwater Workshop on October 12