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2 (Inaudible) directly associated with the street. These two lots are only included in the storm drainage portion. This particular project most recently was petitioned for by 48% of the abutting street property. This has been a long running historical (inaudible) and since I have been with Roseville there have been two petitions that have come in. The problem in the past has been that there was no way to pick up the storm water. This water simply ran down the proposed street, got into Josephine and went into (inaudible). The completion of the Lake Josephine diversion project that picked the water up all the way to Josephine and Hamline, came down (inaudible), came to Dellwood Road and to Little Lake Josephine (inaudible). We now are in a position to consider this improvement because at long last there's a storm water outlet which would allow it to go to Little Lake Josephine. Also in existence in this street is a sanitary sewer which is in the same general direction, put in several years ago, but has not been utilized because the property doesn't have a street on it. The plan would be to build a regular 32-foot roadway, 7-ton design, asphalt paving, concrete curb and gutter, put a cul-de-sac on the end for emergency vehicles. The major complication with the roadway is that there is a layer of peat that is three to five feet thick, and is, in some cases, as deep as ten feet below the existing ground. We looked again at several alternatives of what to do about that peat that's under the ground. Looked at some varying alternatives, looked at the possibility of putting filter (inaudible) in, had some soil experts come in and give us their professional advice, and it was their advice that no mat ter what we did, we could expect that road to sink as much as half a foot once we paved it. I guess we didn't want to take the gamble on what happens when the road goes down half a foot in the future so our road recommendation would be the roadway would have to be excavated out to get rid of the peat, which is very expensive, but I guess we really see at this point no viable alternative to doing that and it's really going to be up to the property owners involved, and if they wish to have the improvement done (inaudible). MR. POPOVICH: The total published cost of this improvement was $217,610. It was petitioned for by 48% of the property owners involved. There are three aspects to it - the watermain and water services would total $37,357 and it worked out (inaudible) with credit given for the trunk sewer that was put in sometime ago, at the rate of $25.76 a foot.