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<br />before the Council then, or the Commission that was handling it, <br />and said I was putting up a home, spending some good money for <br />it, and I would like to benefit from the sewer. At that time <br />they said they would, but they would not come all the way down in <br />front of my home like everybody else and that I would have to <br />run my line from my house, which is on the northern side - I'd <br />have to come from in here, not over here - and run it all the <br />way across my property line. I said if they brought it down to <br />my property line, I would go that far and spend the extra money <br />to hook up to it. At that time we did ask about Mr. Grubbs' <br />property and they said no way would they spend the money to pick <br />up the other property. He would have to continue doing what he <br />is doing today. With that option, he didn't pursue it any <br />further. The people - I forget who the lawyer was at that time, <br />I think it was probably Mr. Bell - thought that the Village was <br />obligated, since I was putting up a home, under construction, <br />and I had my permits already in and had started construction - <br />they figured the Village was obligated and that they would run <br />the sewer that far for me. Thereafter they did, but they said <br />they definitely would not go any further than that. Right now, <br />since at that time they said it wasn't feasible to do it, I <br />don't know what has changed in l7 years to make it feasible now. <br />When Mr. Honchell said that it's at a level two and a half feet <br />below ground, that he could pick it up, I venture to say - with <br />the winter we had here, with below zero weather for l5 days or <br />so - that two and a half feet is not enough to keep anything <br />from freezing. I am sure that each of you live in homes that <br />have sewer - if it was two and a half feet below ground - you <br />wouldn't be very happy with it in this climate. It would <br />probably work down in. Florida, but I don't think you'd live <br />with it here. That ground, I'm sure, freezes to a depth of <br />more than two and a half feet. I think it's totally unrealistic <br />to expect somebody who l8 years ago wanted to hook up and was <br />told he could not, now to expect him to hook up to :a sewer and <br />live with a condition, not knowing from winter to winter whether <br />he's going to have frozen lines or not, when in fact today he <br />is living with a sewer that he spent some good money on just a <br />few years back to accommodate his needs. <br /> <br />COUNCILMAN KEHR: Mr. Honchell's statement was not two <br />and a half feet below the surface of the ground - it was two <br />and a half feet below the lower floor level. That puts you at <br />about six and a half to seven feet below ground. <br /> <br />MR. MODJESKI: There's no basement in his house. <br /> <br />MR. HONCHELL: The land does slope away from the street <br />toward th~ home, as I recall, which would make it more than two <br />and half feet. <br /> <br />COUNCILMAN JOHNSON: How deep is the line at your property? <br /> <br />MR. MODJESKI: I honestly can't tell you. I'm hooked in <br />in my basement. I'm down eleven blocks - I have one block extra <br /> <br />4 <br />