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; , 07/02/2021 08:57 6514079523 SIMPLY BOOKKEEPING : PAGE 01 ~ Marl Nelson From: Sent: To: SUbJect: okanke@juno.com Thursday, June 28,2001 9:27 PM sbi@mninter.net Question Hello Mar;, You were so helpful with our park issue. last Summe.r I thought 1 would run Our most recent problem by you. Since moving into our home (7847 Center Street) we have experienced a ffood of water in our baCkyard each Spring. This Spring was extremely bad. So had that our basement flooded. We tafked with our neighbors (7833 Center Street & 1825 Cenrer Street) and they too had extreme water problems this Spring. So my wife and I set out In early April to see if there was something that could be clone to alleYiate this problem. We read books, contacte.d the Citv of Centervll/e (Paul ?, the city planner) and had numerous landscape desIgners give us their thoughts and quotes. The City of Cem:ervllle told us to fill in our baCkyard and use drainage. tile to move the water to the back of our yard. From there the water would drain across our neighbors backyard and into a marshy area. We took rhis plan and presented it to 5 different landscape designers. All 5 said this plan of acUon woulcl not work. In fact all 5 said this would only cause more problems for us and our neighhors. This option would kill most of the trees On the western edge of our yard, but most imporrantly, if we build up our backyard there is a strong possibility that instead of channeling the water away from our hOlJse WE! will be sendIng ;r directly towards our house. The engineers with the City of Centerville failed to notice that the area they want us to channel the water to has a higher elevation than our yard. Another issue with this option pertains to 1825 Ce.nter Street, The water draining from the surrounding homes evemua"y ends up in a marshy area adjacent to 1825 Center Street. As water fills this marshy area it floods into our neighbors baCkyard. The predominant solution offered by these landscapers was to have a ditch run across our backyards and into a sedime.nt pond. We would then use drainage tile to channel the water from our yards into that ditch, The City of Ce.ntel"ville owns wooded property that runs the extent of our hackyards. Therefore we are asking the City of Centerville to fund part of this project. Mainly the ditch running the length of our yants ancl also somewhere for the overflow to go hesldes into the backyard of 1825 Center Street. There is a drainage ditch that runs from Centerville Road to approximately half way up the northe.rn portion of Center Street then 1