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Memo
To: Mayor Hicks and City Council
From: Tom Bakken, Building Official
Date: March 5, 2009
Subject: Contract with Dakota County
REQUEST
The City Council is asked to approve the Contract with Dakota County #10121
The Building Safety Department is requesting this joint powers contract be approved to
allow Dakota County to administer a Pump Maintenance Program that notifies owners of
Individual Sewage Treatment Systems of the requirement to pump their septic system
every three years. In a recent MPCA workshop I was made aware of the requirement to
have a septic system pumping notification program for the City of Hastings The need to
pump septic systems every three years is a State of Minnesota Law in Chapter 7080 of the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Of the 27 townships and cities in Dakota County, 23
of these jurisdictions have joint powers agreements to monitor this program. After
discussion with Michael Rutten, Dakota County Environmental Specialist, and other
administrators of Onsite Sewage Treatment Programs in the county, I feel that with
notification from Dakota County we will get timely and better compliance. The county will
monitor the Pump Maintenance Program and the City of Hastings Building Safety
Department will handle any enforcement actions if needed to ensure compliance with
septic pumping requirements and reports of non-compliant systems. The City of Hastings
currently has approximately 12 individual septic systems.