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this fairly recently constructed county pipe that simply gets collected from the front yards, goes into the pipe, goes out the pipe and dumps into Bennett Lake. This is detrimental to the lake. ~~ny of you are aware of the bubblers that the City has out in thl~ lake, the extensive work that the City has been doing trying to bring that lake back and make it a little better water facility. Dumping direct storm water into that is felt to be a bad thing to do. We would like to try and correct that. Water also flows,' _to some degree, over land and down this rather steep grade.if it gets high enough, at least in this location, and with that it's carrying whatever material it picks up along the way, including any potential erosion: I'm not sure how it flows through some of those driveways in between, but it is undesirable to have this magnitude of water flowing that far with no way to pick the water up at the higher end. There's a definite grade difference between here and here. This is much higher than it is down in that direction. Once all that water does get down, either through the pipe or over land, it then has to splash out on the streets and run over again to some outmoded box structures and then go through a corrugated pipe down into this wetland. Again, reports are that water stands several inches deep for several hours after most rains in here because it's simply not an adequate facility to carry it. It's splashing out on the street rather than carrying it in the facilities themselves. These facilities were probably put in either by the developer or the county - I guess I can't even tell you which. They've been there for a goodly number of years. 'They' re corrugated metal pipe, - many of you are used to seeing culverts in your driveways - you know how long corrugated metal lasts. It's begun to outltve its usefulness. There's already been some evidence, up in this area, of some failures in that pipe. We don't know how much longer those facilities will be able to serve. Lastly of the problems to be addressed is the fact that having this low wet area - it's not only a flood problem, but it's a maintenance problem in that it's difficult to mow, main- tain, use, beautify - do much of anything - in this portion of the park because the water inundates the area and makes it quasi- swampy. It's too wet for people to use and yet it goes dry at times so it makes ,it a little difficult for the wildlife even to use. It simply varies back and forth in an unregulated, unpatterned ma?Der. Those are some of the problems we know of. I'd like to also now try and go back and talk about some solutions. (Change Tape) . . . propose to bring a storm sewer pipe just outside the roadway, along the boulevard areas, up to the area of Oxford Street on B-2 to provide a means for picking the water up- at that location and solve that problem we spoke of earlier, and second, t~ find some means of allowing an outlet for some of this water, without simply running down the hills, by a facility near this lot line. It will also provide a way to intercept the water that's running down these hills before it 5