BOARD02205

• Board Meeting Date: 3/10/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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In this plan it requires that we set up abate-
ment dates for all of the known polluters at
that time. We wrote to all of the known
polluters at that time, feeling they were in
the best position to tell us when they could
accomplish this task. We set a deadline of
five years. In other words, June 30 of '12.
The commission moved this up a year to June
30 of '71, feeling that there always would
be some stragglers. This is true since we
have now mOved back to the end of this year.

Our response on this first letter wasn't
too gratifying. I think about five percent
responded. We wrote again and still the
response wasn't too good, so I and the staff
sat down and worked out abatement dates and
then informed them of their respective dates.
I don't know whether we did a good job of
guessing or what but there have been. I think,
only five that have requested a change in
abatement dates. This is going back to '67.

If all they needed was disinfection we
put them early on the schedule. The more
complex the problem, the later we put them on
the schedule. We are coming now to those on
Our schedule that are classified as destitute
communities,and it's pretty hard to get blood
out of a turnip. Even though there is state
grant money and federal grant money, they
still need additional money say from F.H.A.,
from HuD, in order to accomplish their abate-'
merit schedule. Even in this case we are
working quite closely with the federal agen-
cies and have been able to get abatement and
get moneys for these communities.

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The prime example I think is Redcliff
where, I believe, the cost of the treatment
facilities and sewer lines was 3,2 times the
assessed valuation of the town. So we have
worked with F.H.A., we have worked with E.P.A.,
the Four Corners Commission, and they are
going ahead now.