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I'.1ARJORIE SUCO"<'o 1974. I'lidland Hills Hoad: I don't know if I was allm".1ed to speak \'lhen I don't live in this immediate area. COUNCILMAN ANJJr.m;:-;ON~ You're going to pay the greatest share of it so you might as well talk. ~mYOR DEMOS~ Very little goes on the general taxes. rm. KULIG ~ Ca 11 a huddle. J:-1RS. SUCO::c,7 ~ In our area of Roseville - Rosewood Lane and Hoselawn - severa 1 years ago ~;Je had three very beautiful natural drainage ponds. He've got this same kind of study and storm sewer proposa 1 for our area 0 'I'he same thing where they wanted to "manage" the water level - prevent excess water in times of heavy storm and drainage. As of today, they manage that water so beautifully that, number 1, they lowered the level to ,-"hat it was naturally each year. Of course, it would raise or drop depending on the weather, but they initially lowered it so when we did have a drought, we now have the destruction of three ponds. The one at the corner of Cleveland and Roselawn virtually dried up this summer and I really feel that if the natural level of that pond had been kept as nature moves it up and down, that would not have been virtually a drought ridden, barren ~rea. In fact, it's an eyesore now, which was once a most beautiful place. The pond on north Rosewood Lane ~!'Ja s dra ined severely and tHO or three lots were developed. That pond is nothing but a mushland of maybe a circumference of 50 feet. A third pond which is up by Skillman is again nothing but a mushland. Those three areas in the neighborhood have been destroyed. Now, is this what we mean by managing the lake levelo I think that's something that should be checked in too Secondly, you report that you surprisingly haven't found oil in this pond or this lake. I predict you haven't found oil because you've had natural sheet drainage, and as water runs across any kind of material for a long period or a long distance through grass - through anything - droppings of oil are going to be pulled out of that water, but the minute you channel ito immediately through your pipeso (inaudible) that's \}hy you haVE' to go to a filtration center there because you I re rushing tha-t ~'}ater to'-vard the lake and there's no natural dropping away of these foreign bodies, and I think these are things that really should be looked into. All I can say is, I get emotional when I think of the destruction of three beautiful ponds in our neighborhood through what was called manage- ment of the water level. 32