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and picked up drainage from roughly our western boundary over to Highway 88. There was another portion just to the west of Walnut and various leads across the roadway opposite and in front of the Williams Brothers pipeline. Ariother segment beginning at Briggs Transport and going down to just past the railroad, where it empties into a large ditch section heading to the north that already existed, and several pick-up points in front of the Standard Oil parcel, again with a line being constructed over to Long Lake Road where it empties into a basin. Finally, as part of the improvement portion, a pick-up of the water coming down Long Lake Road, which went into a line that went across (inaudible) with several pick-up points corning from the transport area. This particular project is one of an ongoing phase, I guess you'd say, of improvements overall in the area. Many years ago there was a trunk type of assessment, ranging from just over $100 for some parcels to just under $1,000 for others, that collected some of this in a fairly general way, and then took it into a ditch that was constructed along the railroad. All those parcels that were involved in that prior assessment are given credits toward this assessment, reducing their cost. Further, the costs involved in this are only the portion that the County did not pay for in regard to storm drainage. "Although you see all of these lines on the map, Ramsey County, through its funding, paid a goodly portion of it. We are not attempting to gain any of those .funds through assessments. We're only speaking of the funds that the County asked us to pay as our share of the cost of these facilities to accommodate drainage from the parcels themselves. They oversized the pipes and they put in various behind-the- curb pick-up facilities in some cases to take the private water. There are several meandering ways the water eventually gets to these locales, some of them wandering down the railroad right-of-way and then down Long Lake Road, others, such as this parcel, ultimately flowing down what will be a new pipe being constructed right now on Anthony Drive to where it will empty. out actually in St. Anthony and go into this pipe, which was oversized to take care of all of this area. So the actual assessment being levied for storm drainage is less than even the typical prescribed amount of $1,990 per acre, which would routinely be assessed for this, such as the improvement you just heard a second ago over near Lexington. This is actually a reduced assessment. I know the people from Ruan are here, so perhaps I'll jump ahead to questions that they have. This assessment that we're talking about tonight is to pay for their share on the oversizing of pipes in County Road C. As you re- call from last winter, there will also be a storm sewer built up to St. Anthony and that is a totally separate and distinct improvement project, having really nothing to do with this. In one case, it was the construction of a trunk to receive the water when it gets there. Now a lateral is being built up St. Anthony Drive under a separate project and yes, there will be assessments for that one too. 2