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do about it, I think it was their feeling that picking these things up in storm sewer collection devices - namely catch basins - and moving them to the lake - this was not going to worsen the condition. It was not going to save or clean up the lake, but not going to destroy the lake. We looked around the city to see what we could do in the way of some entrapment basins - some sor~ of filters - some sort of sedimentation de- vices, and we found with what we had to work with there simply wasn't available land. (Inaudible) in and purchasing residen- tial property, converting those into sedimentation basins and try to grow vegetation and clean up the water and this was de- termined as an extremely high expense for solving this rather small area. It was, therefore, our conclusion this was not an economical solution to the problem. We then tried to determine if there isn't anywhere on the site - what else might be possible to help this receiving body - namely, Lake Josephine. Therefore, we looked at some other ways to try and aid this receiving body and lengthen its life. As I explained before, this is the small 14 to 15 acres in the north we talked about, served by the exist- ing pipe that goes out there now. This is the other 54 or 55 acres that is under review. This is the one where we propose to pick it up with a larger pipe and take it (inaudible). In addi- tion to this area (inaudible) on Lake Josephine is 262 acres in this area which is all storm sewered and goes out what is the equivalent of a 60 inch pipe at this location. Beyond that, we also have 180 acres draining into probably a 35 acre swamp or so for a little over 200 acres here. This one then comes in through a 24 inch - no, it's 36 inches - between this pond and Lake Josephine. All together, these areas inside Roseville make up approximatel~ half or 500 acres of 1000 acres that drain to Lake Josephine. In using the Rice Creek Watershed's analysis techniques of determining how much phosphates and other nutrients are probable (inaudible) coming off this land, we developed what size facili- ties would probably be needed in the way of cattails, marsh, settling basins, etc. to try and take out at least most of the worst pollutants. There is no way we can take out all of every- thing, but taking out at least the bulk of the worst things which are the phosphates, silt and other nutrients, these are the 5