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Lake Elmo council accepts irrigation alternatives memo for Oakland Middle School, then directs staff to block municipal-water irrigation in final plans
Summary
Council accepted the Stillwater Area Public Schools’ irrigation alternatives memo and separately directed staff to deny final construction plans that show irrigation hooked to city water, citing local water conservation concerns; council vote to accept the memo was 4–1.
The Lake Elmo City Council accepted an irrigation-alternatives memo the Stillwater Area Public Schools submitted for the Oakland Middle School expansion and then voted to direct staff to deny any final construction plans that include a hookup to city water for irrigation.
The council acted after a presentation from a staff member and questions from council members about water use, operational costs and the life of the school’s existing irrigation well. The school district’s team told the council their plan is to connect irrigation to municipal water, and that if municipal water were not available they would move to not irrigate the fields.
Council members pressed for more operational-cost analysis for alternatives including a new well, stormwater reuse and pumping from Rose Lake. The staff report and a…
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