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WIDSETH <br /> 11410 SMITH <br /> March 3, 2015 NOLTING <br /> Brainerd/Baxter <br /> 7804 Industrial Park Road <br /> PO Box 2720 <br /> Baxter,MN 56425-2720 <br /> Honorable Mayor and Council Members 218.829.5117 la <br /> City of Pequot Lakes 218.829.2517 la <br /> tY q Brainerd@wsn.us.com <br /> 4638 County Road 11 <br /> Pequot Lakes, MN 56472-0361 WidsethSmithNolting.com <br /> RE: Proposal for Engineering Services <br /> Design of Row Irrigation, Wastewater Improvements, and Permitting Assistance <br /> Pequot Lakes, MN <br /> Honorable Mayor and Council Members: <br /> As you know, the City has been working with the Minnesota Department of Transportation <br /> (MnDOT)on their 4-lane improvements to Highway 371. These improvements will impact the <br /> City's present wastewater system's pivot spray irrigation effluent discharge field. <br /> The City has also been working with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency(MPCA) on these <br /> potential modifications to the City's discharge field. Any significant changes will require <br /> modifications to the City existing discharge permit(called a National Pollution Discharge <br /> Elimination System, or NPDES/ State Disposal System, or SDS, Permit). <br /> To provide information to the MPCA as soon as possible so that we can meet MnDOT's <br /> schedule, we will need to proceed in the near future with the design of a new row irrigation <br /> system. <br /> Following are our tasks—as best as we understand them from the various agencies involved: <br /> NPDES/SDS Permit Application <br /> The MPCA is suggesting that since the City's present SDS permit expires in the latter part of <br /> 2016, instead of modifying the City's present permit and then turning around right away and <br /> reapplying for a new permit, the City just start the new permit process with whatever modified or <br /> new discharge system the City wants to pursue. <br /> We will meet with and provide information to the MPCA and assist the City in applying for this <br /> new permit. <br /> Field Survey& Base Map <br /> Office research on horizontal and vertical control, Gopher State One Call, setting control in the <br /> field, boundary survey, topographic survey, and base map preparation. <br /> Engineering I Architecture I Surveying I Environmental <br />