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bottom of the lake and we feel it would be a real attribute to the whole area. From there, we would expect the water to set at about an 888 elevation, which is just a speck higher than Bennett Lake routinely sets. To look at the next sketch dowu - this with the pipe coming in is what we talked about before, which came from Brooks. You'll see a slight slope down into the pond we just discussed earlier and then there would be a weir or an outlet structure that would control the water coming out and going to Bennett Lake where it could then be pumped away. p~ you see, there's approxi- mately a six foot pond proposed. That means that when it rains, Bennett Lake is sitting somewhere in this elevation - this is about 888 - the water obviously is going to go up, just as it does today ~n that area. With the elevation being proposed for the top of these banks, however, the water can be retained, essentially, in the pond area rather than spilling out allover the backyards, particularly now that the backyards are higher. It gives you that much more ponding ability. Further, since we were going to keep a very gradual slope toward Victoria in the design, when these really heavy rains come and the water comes outside of this lower section of L~e pond, it will then have a large area to spill out into in the park where designs can be done to accommodate this water without it being a particular problem to the park itself and allow much more ponding, again without it being in the backyards. By having a control facility, once Bennett' Lake goes doy,'l1 again or the rains are done, we can let the water back out to Bennett Lake. Today we can't. You'll notice in- the dash line here it shows a hump - exaggerated for pictorial purposes - but the hump is indeed there. That's one of the reasons that when the water got so high in 1978 that it got over the hump and got into the pond area, but once it got down just a few inches, it no longer had a way for the water to get back over the hump and get out again. It was trapped there for the weeks we talked about. That essentially is the gist of the storm project itself. I'd like to talk fairly quickly abo'l,lt the proposed M.S.A. project that would accompany, this potentially and then about Aglen. Again, the reason for doing this is to try and give you an overview of what is potentially in the works for this section of the City. I think most of you were here a few minutes ago when we talked about Oakcrest. This is an M.S.A., street on Brooks and on that portion of Transit east of Brooks. Small volumes again ',- only 725 vehicles near Lexington and only about 325 vehicles over here in the Transit section. Once again, very low for these sorts of roadways. The existing width .is about 30 feet. I'd have to say that in this case the pavement condition of that roadway - the best I can say for it is that it's terrible. It's frankly the worst M.S.A. roadway in the City. It's really in atrocious shape. The right-of-way is the standard 60 feet. The roadway is primarily toward the middle of the right-of-way except for this north/south section of Brooks where it is off-center and the existing pavement is toward the east by some six to ten feet - it depends on where 8