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things causing your large algae growth and causing the lake to go downhill. We looked at numerous ways. One way we looked at was to say, okay, we're dealing with this area up here. Let's just think about this 55 acre piece for a minute. Instead of taking it out to the lake here, the way it does now, if instead we took it easterly along Josephine. Was there some way we could get it to this pond which does have a large amount of cattails and marsh grass and shall serve as a settling basin. We had two problems. First we had this large sewer that already exists and no way to get over it or under it, so we said we will have to intercept it. We found when we got to the pond that the pond is too high for the water. Water will only run down hill so we can't get into it. That means we would have to pump so we made an estimate of what it would cost to put in a very huge pumping facility at this location which would then pump this and give it enough force to get into the receiving body. We would also have to purchase this acre and a quarter of swamp here. It's private land but it naturally could be purchased at the right price, so we would use this as a surging basin, put in huge pumps and pump to this location. This would run the cost up to a rough $300,000 in addition to the storm sewer construction, this is another $350,000. We said, that's this 55 acres. Let's look at the other 15. We looked at this. We would have to inter- cept (inaudible) carry down here to become part of this system. Again we'd have to pump it because it wouldn't run uphill into this pond. This would increase the cost maybe another $20,000. So again we're talking in the mid $300,000 range and neither one of these looked particularly promising, especially because of the pumping station. We not only have a huge expense up front, but this would be quite an expense forever and ever. We said, that's one approach. Another approach would be to take the 55 acre site, carry it into the sewer much like last time, but rather than (in- audible) intercepting in this huge site, but we would go back to this location and intercept this sewer and carry it to a pipe across Lexington here because there we carry it by gravity. By taking this across this way we can eliminate this huge pumping station and we can use this small surging basin here to purify this smaller area. This is 55 acres versus 262 and then we can use this existing pipe as the input location for Lake Josephine, and using that approach we end up with a cost of about $125,000 added cost. 6