CLRSD votes to begin dissolving the distict!
See our new website www.cleer-mn.org dedicated to lake quality and a clean environment
All townships have withdrawn!
Survey results are final! Click HereUpcoming action items:
BCWD/CLEER Douglas County Septic Compliance Plan Click Here
Upcoming meetings
- LaGrande Township meeting – 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month – 4:30pm
- Miltona Township meeting – 1st Monday of every month – 7:00pm
- Moe Township meeting – 1st Monday of every month – 7:30pm
- Leaf Valley Township meeting – 2cnd Thursday of every month – 7pm
- Brandon Township meeting – 3rd Monday of every month – 8pm
- CLRSD Board Meeting - 1st Thursday of every month - 7:30 p.m. Leaf Valley Town Hall
How did we get here?
Please Read: Excessive Engineering and Regulatory Overkill and City Sewer Fraud
To sucessfully end the sewer project requires immediate action.
Call your township board supervisors. They have the power to stop this project! Some are keeping track of how many call for and against.
Here is the list of townboard supervisors by township:
Leaf Valley
Jay Baldwin (218-943-4797)
Mel Bump (320-834-2194)
Dan Jost (329-834-6059)
Miltona
Gary Anderson (218-943-6100)
Jerome Haggenmiller (218-943-1841)
Don Henning (218-943-1281)
You also need to contact your representatives.
We cannot stress enough the importance of doing this. Below is contact information for the people that need to hear you. Letters and phone calls are the best to use as emails get ignored at times.
Suggestions of what to include in your letter:
- State that you are objecting to this project on Lake Miltona or your lake.
- State the facts of how it affects you personally.
- Request their help to stop this project.
Sen Amy Klobucher
1200 Washington Ave. S. Ste. 250
Minneapolis. MN 55415
Lori Swanson
Attorney General
1400 Bremer Tower
445 MN Street
St. Paul MN 55101
Gov. Tim Pawlenty
130 State Capitol
St. Paul MN 55155
Torrey Westrom
273 State Office Bldg.
St. Paul MN 55155
Mary Ellen Otremba
445 State Office Bldg.
St Paul MN 55155
Minnesota Polution Control Agency
520 Lafayette Road North
St. Paul, MN 55155-4194
MPCA
Holly Christensen
714 Lake Avenue Suite 220
Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
Multiple formats are provided for your convenience.
All documents under each heading are the same, just different formats. Your browser should handle one of the formats
EIS Topics.
EIS Topics in portable document format(pdf) format
EIS Topics in word(doc) format
Send EIS requests to:
MPCA
Holly Christensen
714 Lake Avenue Suite 220
Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
CLEER Thank you letter to Bill Ingebretson and Torrey Westrom
CLEER Thank You letter in portable document format(pdf) format
CLEER Thank You letter in word(doc) format
CLEER Thank You letter in rich text format(rtf) format
CLEER sent this letter to the attorney general requesting a copy Of the letter sent from them to our townboard that is missing regarding conflict of interest.
CLEER Attorney General letter in portable document format(pdf) format
CLEER Attorney General letter in word(doc) format
CLEER Attorney General letter in rich text format(rtf) format
CLEER has sent this letter questioning the economic feasibility of the project.
CLEER economic feasibility letter in portable document format(pdf) format
CLEER economic feasibility letter in word(doc) format
CLEER economic feasibility letter in rich text format(rtf) format
Updated notes from July 17th, 2008.
CLEER 07/17/08 notes in portable document format(pdf) format
CLEER 07/17/08 notes in word(doc) format
CLEER 07/17/08 notes in rich text format(rtf) format
CLEER petition letter sent July 18th, 2008.
CLEER Petition Letter in portable document format(pdf) format
CLEER Petition Letter in word(doc) format
CLEER Petition Letter in rich text format(rtf) format
CLEER has sent the above petition letter along with the petition signature sheets to the addresses below:
Mary Ellen Otremba Torrey
Westrom Bill Ingebrigtsen
445 State Office Bldg. 273 State Office
Bldg. State Office Bldg, Room 123
100 Rev. MLK, Jr. Blvd. 100 Rev. MLK, Jr. Blvd. 100 Rev. MLK, Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155 St. Paul, MN 55155 St. Paul, MN 55155
Douglas County Commissioners
CLRSD ALASD
Douglas County Courthouse P.O. Box 30 2201 Nevada Street SW
305 8th Avenue West Garfield, MN 56322 Alexandria, MN 56308
Alexandria, MN 56308
Miltona Township Board Leaf Valley Township Board Carlos Township Board
%Gary Anderson %Dan
Jost %Kevin Gorghuber
17458 E. Lake Vermont RD NE 14934 Diedrich SH. RD NW 9319 Park LN DR NE
Parkers Prairie, MN 56361 Miltona, MN 56354 Alexandria, MN 56308
MPCA MN Center
For Environmental Advocacy
520 Lafayette RD N. 26 East Exchange
Street, Ste. 206
St. Paul, MN 55155-4194 St. Paul, MN 55101
CC:
Brandon Township Board Amy
Klobuchar Bev Bales
% Donald Buse 1132 7th Street NW 8170 E. Lake Carlos DR NE
6709 CO. RD 15 NW Rochester, MN 55904 Carlos, MN 56319
Brandon, MN 56315
Gov. Tim Pawlenty Lori
Swanson Dana Barsknecht
Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau Attorney
General 8429 Whiskey Lk Dr NW
130 State Capitol 1400 Bremer Tower Brandon, MN 56315
75 Rev. MLK, Jr. Blvd. 445 Minnesota
Street
St. Paul, MN 55155 St. Paul, MN 55101
Moe Township Board
%Fredric Krafthefer
4738 W. Mill Lake Road SW
Farwell, MN 56327
Updates will be posted on our blog at no-clrsd.blogspot.com
You can also post comments here. Facts and information about the CLRSD sewer project
We will add more facts as they become available.
Did you know that in Miltona township, a survey was sent out by the township board to the citizens to see if people were for or against the sewer project.
The surveys came back and it was 60% against and 40% for. The board said it was 60% for and 40% against because they added all
people that did not return their surveys as yes votes.
The initial project estimate was $30,000,000. As of 01/01/08 the new estimate is $53,000,000. Since then the price of fuel has went up a lot. Even if people could afford
$53 million, do you really think that will be the final cost?
Click on this link CLRSD cost estimate to see what the CLRSD thinks you will be paying. Remember, the hookup fee is extra and will cost thousands of dollars.
Only 7% of septics on lake Miltona were failing. We are not sure how many septics are on lake Miltona exactly, but even if there were 500, that would only be 35 systems.
At 10,000 per system, this problem could have been fixed for $350,000. Over 100 time less than the sewer project.
According to the CLRSD EAW submitted to the MPCA, the discharge plant will be discharging 340,000 (.34 million) gallons of treated sewage water per day into the Long Prairie river putting several freshwater muscles
in peril(according to the MN DNR). The phosphorus discharge is surpassing the recommended limits. The CLRSD's way to mitigate this situation is by trading with another source in the Lake Pepin water basin.
We are a group of concerned citizens that have formed CLEER, a not for profit organization to fight the unnessesary runaway CLRSD sewer project.
We need your help. It costs money to fight the CLRSD. They are well organized and have lobbyist and a public relations firm
representing them. CLEER is a not for profit organization and your contribution should be tax deductible. We suggest a donation of $200, but anything will help
including donating your time.
Make checks payable to CLEER.
Send your donations to:
Terry Stanley
2981 N. Lake Miltona Drive NE
Miltona, MN 56354
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