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Regular Meeting - September 10, 1958 right-of-way near Little Canada Road and Centerville Road along the new highway right-of-way, the danger of flooding i.n the area West of the new highway near the intersection of County Ditch No. 7 and the waterworks right-of-way would be mater- ially lessened. Upon studying grades and design as worked out on the highway maps, the engineers ahowed that the highway grade is 20 ft, higher at the South end of the section in question than what it is at the point where it intersects County Ditch No. 7. Because of this great difference in grade, tlxe only way i;he water could be drained Southward would be by means of an extensive and very costly under- gx•oxtnd storm sewer system. This expensive project, the engineera maintained, could not be ,justified to the Highway Department staff or to the Thxited States Bureau of Roads. The engineers did, h<nvever, say that they would install 60" concrete pipes for both Ditch No. 7 and the waterworks right-of-way ditch where these ditches go under the Highway. The engineers also agreed to lower these pipes if the Village Council decided i;o do any ditch work that. would regztire a steeper ditch grade than exists now along Ditch No. 7 and the waterworks right-of-way ditch so as to increase 'the potential :Clow, There was considerable discussion lasting for more than an hour about this whole drainage problem. T'he affected property owners were in favor of having the V111age undertake some work to improve Ditch No. 7. A suggestion was made that possibly the Village could provide drainage Southward along Edgex•ton Street so as to substantially reduce the potential water flow through Ditch No. 7, The Council agreed to take the matter under advisement and to study the possibilities of working out these problems so as to give the Highway Department further information before the actual highway construction is completed to the point of installing the 60" pipes. submitted: Upon motion by Vitale, seconded by Loeffler, the following resolution was "WFIEREAS, the Commissioner of Highways has prepared plans and specifications for the improvement of a part of Trunk Highway No. 390 renumbered as Trunlc Highway Number 35 within the corporate limits of the Village of Little Canada Bridges 9096 and 9097 be- tween 310 feet south of Little Canada Road and 820 feet northwest of Jct. T.H. 49 (Rice Street) and also Bridges 9196 and 9197 over N.P. Ry. track,; and "NHEREAS said plans are on -file in the office of the Depart- ment of Highways, Saint Paul, Minnesota, being marked, labeled, and identified as S.P. 6280-14 (35_390) 6280-19, Br. 9096; S.P. 62£30-20, Bridge No. 9097, and also Bridges 9196 and 9197 over N.P. Ry tracks, etc., which, together with the Minnesota Department of Highways Specifications for Highway Construction, dated July 1, 7.947, and Supplement No, 1 to the Minnesota Department oP Iighways Specifications for Highway Consi:ruci:ion, effective April 15, 1953, on file in the office of the Commissioner of Highways, constitute the specifications for said improvement of Trunlc Highway Number 390 renumbered as Trunk Highway Number 35; and "SYHEREAS copies of said plans and specifications as so marked, labeled, atad identified are also on file in the office of the Vi7.- lage Clerk; and "WHEREAS the term °said plans and specifications' as herein- after used in the body of this resolution shall be deemed and intended to rnean, refer to, and incorporate the plans and specifi- cations as in the foregoing recitals particularly identified and described. (continued)