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Continuing easterly then along Brooks, again a set of basins is proposed to pick the water up, ~ore basins as we corne to ChatsworL~ and Brooks, there will be more basins as we go along Brooks Q~til eventually we come to just north of Transit where again we meet the main outlet into the pond. Before I get into the pond, I'd like to talk a little bit about a small facility we propose to take care of this sheeting along Lexington Avenue that goes directly into the lake, through a facility that, while it won't solve all problems because it's fairly small, should help in reducing the siltation problem and the bad material being carried by the siltation in that water. If any of you are familiar with the area near Lake Josephine and Little Josephine, immediately up Lexington, facilities somewhat similar to this were constructed and, according to the Rice Creek Watershed, this is the most successful facility we have in ,that entire area as far as producing an identifiable benefit. It's not a cure-all, but it does help. If we could now go to the pond. This isn't a purely engi- neering drawing we're going to be discussing. It's more of a visual aid. In other words, it's not drawn exactly to scale, nor are the directions exactly correct. The idea is to help you understand what's going to take place in the area. If right about here was to be Transit - you'll notice it's somewhat high in the picture - the ground slopes off toward Central Park and toward the ponding we had talked about earlier. You'll notice the bottoms of the homes are somewhat lower than the street and then the ponding area is somewhat lower yet than the homes. The thing' lId like you to note though is that this dash line. shows that the ground continues to fall as it gets into the park and if you would twist yourself a little mentally, then if you were to assume that this would suddenly be Victoria over on the extreme right of the screen, this then goes fairly flat for a ways and goes up quite fast as it approaches Victoria. The proposed ponding would be to fill in some of these back- yards so that the backyards themselves would be above elevation 891.5. That was the 'highest the water got in 1978 when we had two gigantic storms. It was therefore felt that this was a reasonable elevation for the future because this area is built up, except for half a dozen lots up near B-2.' There won't be much change in the water drainage pattern. We also hope we're not going to get those 1978 rains again very soon,. If the probability is right, we have 150 years to wait before it hap- pens again. Unfortunately, it doesn't work quite that regularly and as scheduled. So we propose to fill the backyards, put black dirt on top of that and then sod them so that the ya~ds would no longer be the recipient of Bennett Lake's overflow. We then would dig deeper than the existing ground with a gentle slope to an elevation of roughly 882 so that we could have an ar~a that could have water standing permanently. The reason for this is that this is much more aesthetic, most people feel. By having this depth of water, it prevents the sunshine from coming all the way down to the bottom and causing particular plant growths which cause everything to turn so green on the 7