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of more discharge into the lake will cause further (inaudible) quantities of water which can't be supported by the lake. We have 129 signatures, primarily around the lake, quite a few in the (inaudible). I haven't got a count of who lives inside and who lives outside. I think anybody that lives and uses Lake Josephine is certainly affected by further storm water run off. We had a meeting with the Rice Creek Watershed where Mr. Honchell presented his plan. I didn't take accurate notes but it seems to me the Rice Creek water hydrologist indicated the water running into the lake would be 72% - but I'm not sure that's accurate - 72% worse than what's in the lake today. It would only go up about 2 to 3 inches on a large heavy rain storm. Two or three inches would put the water in my front yard. 12 to 18 inches would put it in my living room so again I think we have to be very careful. Mr. Honchell indicated the quality of the water going into the sewer would b~ no worse. First, I have a picture of the sewer running into the lake. This is a sample I took (inaudible) during the storm. You can see there's a little bit of (inaudible) in it but basically it's pretty clean. The quality of the lake is not too good. This was off my dock about 20 to 30 feet from the storm sewer. In the height of the storm I took this sample. In addition - we've lived at that area 7 years now and over this period of time we have removed mufflers, which I real- ize can't get into the St. Paul sewer, tires, inner tubes - we1ve had it. Certainly the quality of the water has changed. I'm a chemist, but I think it's obvious to the eye that the quality of the water coming in would very seriously hurt the lake further. The environmentalist indicated to the people that people have been polluting the lake with their sewers. I don't think we can cor- rect every wrong that's ever been made but we can't duck our heads under our bills and (inaudible) we can see where the large 60 inch storm sewer enters the lake (inaudible) on County Road C-2 that that water shou~d be taken across Lexington and down into Little Josephine and then drained back. For some unknown reason - maybe Mr. Reiling - political pressure - I have no idea - the decision was to take it down into the lake without any settling at all. I think you can see we're talking about re-routing that water at a fairly large expense. I question (inaudible) how much you will have to spend in 10 years when you propose to take all that water, run it into the sewer, restore it so it's a recreational area for the people to use. I have this picture. You can see the seeds coming in from the trees. If you look out, you can see the sand, the (inaudible), the leaves and everything else that runs into the 17