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<br />MR. WAYNE SERKLAND: TO the extent that they wouldn't <br />understand that and wouldn't see the reason that you see, we <br />might receive no benefit. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: This has been stated in our plan to <br />the Rice Creek Watershed for their approval. <br /> <br />MR. WAYNE SERKLAND: Have they approved it? <br /> <br />MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: Not yet. <br /> <br />MR. WAYNE SERKLAND: Is this project itself pending before <br />the Rice Creek Watershed District for approval? <br /> <br />MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: Yes. <br /> <br />MR. WAYNE SERKLAND: This project needs their authority <br />before it can proceed? <br /> <br />MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: Yes. <br /> <br />MR. WAYNE SERKLAND: I might just comment - one thing that <br />has come to my attention in the past year with regard to the <br />Rice Creek Watershed District, if there has been flooding in <br />this area, they in fact built a dam in the culvert, or the open <br />ditch that runs in front of the Tri-State Land Company's <br />property in order to restrict the flow of water coming through <br />that ditch to whatever criteria thev have - there was a dam <br />constructed. What its purpose was,-I'm confused as to. But it <br />certainly did not aid some drainage (inaudible). <br /> <br />MAYOR CRICHTON: Mr. Christoffersen, would you comment on <br />that? <br /> <br />MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: The purpose, I believe - I can't speak <br />for them - but I believe the purpose was to detain small amounts <br />of run-off to utilize the marshy area for water quality. Not <br />necessarily to dam it up, the whole back water for hydraulic <br />(inaudible). I might add that my last observation of the site, <br />the dam is no longer functioning because it's washed away. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />MR. WAYNE SERKLAND: That does not necessarily mean that <br />it would not be re-established. I simply point out that if <br />there were a dam, for whatever purpose it is constructed, serves <br />the same purpose. It stops the flow of water and Rice Creek had <br />created that dam. With regard to a drainage project such as . <br />this involving land owners such as our property - the Tri-State <br />Land Company property - there will be no benefit to any undevel- <br />oped property from the storm sewer project when you cannot <br />obtain a benefit by relieving your existing, or utilizing some <br />of your existing low and marshy land for development. This <br />project would appear to me to be for the benefit of accepting <br />the drainage or making a system that can accept the drainage of <br />parcels that were developed before the advent of the Rice Creek <br />Watershed District. With their rules and regulations, we are <br /> <br />9 <br />