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<br />MR. HONCHELL~ The general benefits are that the water is <br />generally going to be of a higher quality as it reaches that lake, <br />the ability to better control how that water goes up and down in the <br />lake as an aid to the wild life, and the additional use of that <br />lake property around it. As you probably know, the Ramsey County <br />Open Space people are actively acquiring a large amount of property <br />along that northern portion and the city picked up approximately <br />ten acres at the time of the PIK expansiono and the outlet facili- <br />ties as was previously mentioned, and at the south end cleaning up <br />the quality. <br /> <br />I~. MILLER: I think perhaps the majority of the people <br />interested in the quality of the water would be the immediate <br />residents on the lake, of which there are not too many. As far as <br />the fluctuation of the lake level, I think I've been here as long <br />as most anybody in the audience or on the Council - the lake level <br />has gotten out of hand, I believe, twice in the 29 years I've been <br />here. The first time the road was considerably lower, and it was <br />built up. Since then it got out of hand once, and for only a short <br />period of time. I'm not sure we have a control problem there. <br />(inaudible) perhaps for wild life. <br /> <br />~ffi. HONCHELL: Our figures, which have also been reviewed <br />by the Rice Creek Watershed that have overall review of these <br />things, are that, indeed, this lake, should there be a large <br />storm of the 25 or 100 year frequency, have problems at sustaining <br />and getting the water out. Maybe another way to explain it is with <br />this facility we would have the facility of getting rid of the <br />extra water we don't want in two, three, four days instead of two, <br />three, or four weeks that the water would be standing at the <br />higher elevation, and I think there would be considerable problems <br />if the water was up higher than the couple feet (inaudible). <br /> <br />MR. MILLER~ I think we're grasping straws at the hundred <br />year storm bit. <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL~ That's accepted nationally at this time. <br /> <br />~~. MILLER~ It seems like a helluva lot of money to be <br />spending when very little really ever gets flooded. <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: Partially it's flood control and management. <br /> <br />9 <br />