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To preserve or build new? BY SHANNON GRANHOLM EDITOR
LINO LAKES — Whether the City Council should try to preserve one of its oldest structures or build new was a main topic of discussion at the council’s Dec. 2 work session. The topic first came up in September 2018, when Mayor Jeff Reinert asked if there was anything the city could do to save the farmhouse, built in 1893, at 509 Birch St. near Rice Lake Elementary School. In December 2018, the council authorized the preparation of a feasibility report by WSB and Oertel Architects for future Wellhouse No. 7, which included reviewing site and geologic data, developing a design concept, preparing basic wellhouse plans, constructing a test well, analyzing test pumping results and preparing a preliminary cost estimate. During the drilling of the test well in March, the well collapsed and was not able to be completed. In June, the council awarded the bid for a second (screened) test well. Jeff Oertel of Oertel Architects and Greg Johnson of WSB attended the Dec. 2 work session to present the feasibility study. “The second test well was successful. It is going to be a high producing well and would have minimum interference with adjacent wells. The water quality would be similar to other (city) wells,” Johnson explained. Now the council has to decide if it should try to repurpose the existing home as a wellhouse or build a new wellhouse. According to the feasibility study, the concept would be to retain the front portion of the house and demolish the rear section. The back section would be removed and the brick reused, if possible. The remaining front of the house would be secured and relocated to a different spot at the same address. Before the move, a new foundation would be constructed at the structure’s new location. The farmhouse would then be set in place and new well equipment would be installed. The original portion of the house would be renovated for storage and the upper floor abandoned. Existing window openings, however, would be used for ventilation. Oertel explained some advantages to repurposing the home into a wellhouse: it would include more space (roughly 30%) than a new building and would SEE WELLHOUSE, PAGE 9
Polar explorer witness to melting ice BY SARA MARIE MOORE VADNAIS HEIGHTS EDITOR
When polar explorer Will Steger heard the news, he couldn’t believe it, but knew it was real: The 1,250-square-mile ice shelf he had crossed in Antarctica by dog sled had collapsed into the sea. “It caught me by surprise,” Steger told an audience gathered at the Shoreview Community Foundation’s annual dinner last month. Steger also spoke at an environmental awareness event Nov. 21 at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi. Steger had been standing on the ice shelf a decade before. It was the moment when Steger knew it was time to focus his energies on education, not just exploration. “That was my wake-up call,” he said. A portion of the Larsen B Ice Shelf — about the size of Rhode Island — broke up over a month’s time in 2002, during Antarctica’s summer. The ice shelf had been stable for an estimated 10,000 years. Steger believes the collapse is due to climate change caused by increased carbon dioxide levels. The monthly average carbon dioxide concentration has risen from about 310 parts per million (ppm) in 1960 to almost 400 ppm in 2015, according to Mauna Loa Observatory data from Hawaii. Steger has explored polar regions since the ‘80s. He traveled to the North Pole by dog sled in 1986, traversed Greenland without dogs
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Polar Explorer Will Steger speaks at an environmental awareness event held at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi last month.
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The monthly average carbon dioxide concentration has risen from about 310 parts per million (ppm) in 1960 to almost 400 ppm in 2015, according to Mauna Loa Observatory data from Hawaii. At right, Polar expedition members use kayaks to cross open water.
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