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to the lake themselves. They simply go down a slope and then the water rlli~s over the bikepath, over what is ever in front of it for the most part, except for one minor culvert there, carrying any erosion with it that may be, in its way and deposits all of this directly into Bennett Lake. Tnis obviously doesn't do any- thing good at all for the lake or the property in between, in- cluding the bikepath and the edge of the park. These flat por- tions along Brooks in this area also, unfortunately, tend to pond the water more than routinely because they don't have good grades on the street and they don't have good crowns on the street. QUite frankly~they don't have that great of material under the street. So you do have a potentially hazardous condi- tion and I guess some of you can probably relate ~uch better than I do, but I suspect in these periods that there's been standing water, which is probably frozen' at night~ in the road itself. I'Ve observed it in the past, although I didn't drive down it today. Also, there's standing water at various times in the spring and summer and any time after a rain. This is not only a hazard to driving, but it's also very detrimental to the roadway in that that water tends to go through cracks that are in the street, get under the road, soften it, weaken it, and it deteriorates that much faster. Another area of problem is in the Oxford/B-2 corner where there are no in-let facilities and the water has historically gone ,along simply into the county ditches and simply gone onto vacant land. The land is no longer vacant. More building is being proposed and there is no place now for that water simply to percolate into the ground the way it used to. Waters are, building up in this location and it will be even worse as the ~hole area gets developed. There are no pick up facilities to get rid of that water today. B-2 and Nancy Place - the general area - the water comes along B-2 in the ditch section, goes through a facility on the south side and a pipe down to Transit Avenue as best it can, but particularly over on the north side there are some severe pocketings of water that occur. They're rather major and one of the gentlemen earlier had, said that there's no water there but I've seen it, we've got pictures of it, and other people we've talked to say why don't you stop letting that occur. There are pockets of water that are fairly significant in this area and there's 'no way right now to get rid of that water. The Nancy Place area, near Grandview - we would like to have some pick up facilities to clear the water away from the inter- sections as we do in our standard intersection design to try and again extend the life of any of the roadways in the area. T'ne area 0 f Lexington Avenue, opposite Oakcrest - if you can see - shows an existing storm sewer going directly out to Bennett Lake. Most of the water that comes through that large pipe has some ponding occurring back to the west. In fact, sometimes there are two or three ponds to go through before it ever gets to Bennett Lake. There are segments, how- ever, of this water - all through here - that's running in 4