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.AXEQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />i. <br />1 <br />The residents 66 the north side of Transit, West of Victoria,, haVe written the <br />council <br />requesting that they have the opportunity to review their <br />storm drainag <br />pro-blem <br />that affects the rear of their lots. <br />The basic problem is <br />that the rea <br />port-ion <br />of their lots was originally all part <br />of the Bennett Lake <br />area and�.,as <br />such, is <br />wet and swampy. This has not been • <br />constant situation, <br />however.._ in <br />tilat in <br />other years, the water has evaporated <br />or percolated in the <br />ground3or <br />Clonlehow <br />been dissipated. <br />The very wet year we have experienced,particularTy with t4e extremely <br />heavy rains in late June and in July that resulted in water being considerably <br />higher than normal and of much longer duration. The owners are coming to the city <br />to seek relief to their problem-and have-the city somehow solve, it. <br />It would, therefore, seen that whil-e the very real Droblem exists, I't is not one <br />that the city created, or one which the city should'assume responsibility to unila- <br />terally correct. Solutions appear to exist to construct facilities to solve the <br />probleom, but these would require a storm sewer project and the assessments that <br />itiould go with it. <br />