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where Dellwood Avenue would be if it were constructed. It drains through a small swale and is picked up in an existing catch basin shown in green, crosses Josephine and goes out to the lake. This is what is here today. To correct this flood- ing, it is necessary to have greater capacity outlets. This is the reason why the small 12 inch would be abandoned and a 27 inch pipe would replace it and a 30 inch pipe out to almost the exact location of the outfall. No change in the location would be in the outfall at the northern perimeter and catch basins in the area to pick up the water (inaudible) and also to provide for better drainage in the area and do a better job of keeping our city streets in better shape. In conclusion, as you see here, shaded in the brown, would result in an expenditure of slightly over $200,000. In order to get a handle as to just what the shape of the receiving body is, which is Lake Josephine, and what sorts of water would be coming to this area, we hired an environmental analysis group in Roseville and these people did samples. They sampled the lake, both in the existing outlets and at a location approxi- mately here where there is an exis'ting 60 inch outlet which serves another residential area further to the south. They also sampled in the lake and they sampled some (inaudible) water in these ditches to determine if the ditches were indeed serving to clarify the water in any way as it's dealt with today. Some of you have heard this before, particularly if you were (inaudi- ble). They found many things. They found that Lake Josephine is in a transition phase; that it's not the same as a northern lake somewhere that has no pollutants. They found that this lake is in fairly reasonable shape today. I guess it's all in how you measure it, but at least for urban lakesj that it would probably take ten years on a continuation of ten years before you would get noticable measurable changes. I'm not saying it's impossible to tell, but by the measuring devices it would be probably 100 years before the lake would not grow fish and you shouldn't swim in it. This is just what they found. They also found that the storm water from these outlets that are there today, and from the water that would be coming in if we had the catch basins, is of a more contaminated nature which is typical of urban areas, particularly residential where you have the run off of nutrients, salt on the street, dirt. These things are going to the lake and are of a lower quality than what is in the lake today. In determining what we should 4