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5 ~~YOR DEMOS: 2073 Hamline - there's a lot of water. Would the placing of a curb along there help keep the water that ordinarily would drain there out of the lot? MR. HONCHELL: That's my understanding. Some of the water is coming off the road itself and for that (inaudible) coming off Belmont and off Eldridge. There's no way to control the water today. It merely runs off the sides of the roads and goes to the lowest area. We could extend the existing storm sewer facilities to every low spot on Hamline, but it's better to bring the water to the low spots. MR. WUSSLER: Can't you put catch basins on the upper part of Belmont so it would get the water there? MR. HONCHELL: The existing ones on Hamline. MR. WUSSLER: (inaudible) there are on Harnline but there aren't on Belmont at the corner of Hamline and that's where the water stands. MR. HONCHELL: We could extend each of those Hamline catch basins out to where the low spots are. That's not really included as part of this improvement, and what we're waiting for is to have the county re-do Hamline and control the water and bring it to specific places. We can look at that and see if there's a way we can help you, but at this moment I'm not sure we can solve it all. MR. WUSSLER: There's good drainage from the fourth or fifth house from Hamline down that street, but it's just on the corner, about the first three or four lots where they do have the problem. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: Isn't Hamline due pretty soon? MR. HONCHELL: The county has a master plan. They have Hamline scheduled to be done, but it's not next year. It's down the road a ways into probably, I think 1984 or maybe 1983, but they have it scheduled to be done. ~ffi. JOSEPH KAZEK, 1427 West Eldridge: I'm totally in favor of the project. In fact when the petition went by I was kind of flabbergasted because I thought (inaudible) the chuckholes are usually repaired but I happen to have probably the lowest spot in the street and I think Mr. Honchell (inaudible) my wife had never met but they know each other on a first name basis this year. I have had a big lake in front of our driveway and you always had to run clear around it or get your feet wet, and in the winter when it freezes there are ruts there (inaudible). I've been complaining about it for several years. Not as much as I did this year, but I think my wife put a little more pressure on this year. (inaudible) a little more asphalt or whatever and it drains a little better, but it still needs a new street very badly.