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MINUTES REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING APRIL 12, 1978 Page 6 Some years ago St. Paul started the St. Anthony Storm Sewer leg that was constructed as a tunnel all the way to the river. That comes up parrallel to Eustis Avenue and then swings across and at present stops at Como and Stella. St. Paul has provided sufficient capacity for draining this area into that, but there has been no participation by the City of Falcon Heights at the present time. I believe the University has paid a part of their connection charge. Basically what we are looking at then is a major line picking up the area north of the Hermes Green House area, the area south of Falcon Woods, down parallel to Lindig Street which will also pick up the area that now floods at the north end of Lindig Street and picks up over along Fairview Avenue, east side of the University property, all along Larpenteur Avenue, brought down by varying size pipe, which as it goes down increases in size all the way up to a 72" pipe. Down through the University property and fairgrounds and then would connect down at Como and Stella. This study has gone on for quite some time, I think Mr. Nilsen, you remember about 15 years ago Toltz, King and Duvall did the study for St. Paul and it has been kicked around for a long time and up until the present time with the possibility of this grant it has not been .economically feasible for the City of Falcon Heights to enter into the storm sewer program in this area because of the extreme cost. A rough breakdown at the present time, to drain this area, it is estimated now that the Falcon Heights share is $106,000, the University approx. $560,000, the State Fair- grounds $200,000 and Ramsey County $100,000, giving us a total cost of $1,500,000 in round numbers. I've got Falcon Heights share at $636,000 if we were to receive a grant of $750,000. So if we take the grant or if we receive the grant of $750,000, it would still leave $424,000 for the City to pay. If that entire cost was taken up, we have looked at the possibility of utilizing the Minnesota State Aid funds that the City does have available. We have checked with the State Highway Dept. and have received their approval on a tentative basis to use a part of the money that we have available in that system on this particular project. We would be utilizing the State Aid monies off the state aid system, but because of the state aid roadways that are in that, there is some drainage off those roadways. There is also the county state aid road we could reduce, that amount that ~f`alcon Heights would be required to pay would bring it down to approx. $255,000. The area that Falcon Heights is lokking at, contains 1,350 acres, breaking that down per acre it appears to be approx. 3.1~ per sq. ft., on an average 10,000 sq. ft lot, the assessment would be around $300 to $310 per average lot. This is all based on receiving participation on the same basis from the U of M, Fairgrounds and Ramsey County.