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. 1 . MR. MARCEL EIBENSTEINER, President of Royal Oaks Realty, Inc., Developer of Royal Hills: First of all, I have another question for Mr. Christoffersen on the storm sewer. The pond has an elevation of 962.2 and the street is at 962.5 - 5/10 off. Why can't I drain the pond onto the street and down the hill without bringing all the expensive storm sewer and catch basins - I'm going to move the whole storm sewer all the way down to the intersection, put in two catch basins and a pipe going down to the lower area, eliminate all the pipe in the intersection and all the way up to the ponding area, let the pond area overflow into the street. It would have to be only 5/10 off, otherwise just lower the street another 5/10 and then that pond would drain automatically down to the inter- section. I'm out to save money and I figure I could save $20,000 by eliminating the pipe from the pond to the inter- section. Is it necessary? MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: Yes, I believe it's necessary. This is roughly the area of the pond that. we're talking about and currently your street is coming in in this location, roughly in this vicinity, which will block part of the pond. You can see the natural drainage area that follows down through this area. It essentially drains down this way, down into a lower area. As this develops, obviously there will be a road sitting there as somewhat of a dam. It's not good practice to have water pond to the side, raised to an elevation that would slop over the curb into the street. That's not good practice. Another consideration could be - and we thought of this, but obviously we don't know the complete answer until we get into the design phase - it could be possible to create some fill to raise the bottom of this pond to where it's not holding water and the water runs off into that. low area, similar to the way water would run off of a lawn. That's acceptable. But to have water fill up in the pond and then slop over into the street that's unacceptable. MR. EIBENSTEINER: How about if I fill it up? MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: We don't know at this point in time. MAYOR WOODBURN: The question arises - what is "it"? MR. EIBENSTEINER: Fill the pond. I think if I filled it in, it would only have a depth of about two feet. . MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: That could be. As I say, I'd rather have . . . MR. EIBENSTEINER: (Inaudible) fill it in to two feet and . . . MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: (Inaudible) some elevations on the street. We don't have any complete data. We're still working with preliminary information right now. Rather than to not 6