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STAFF REPORT TO:Mayor Keis and Members of City Council FROM:Bill Dircks, Public Works Director DATE:July 24, 2019 RE:County Road B2 Emergency Storm Sewer Repair There is a storm sewer pipe on County Road B2 that picks up flows from a small area around Abbott’s two properties on County Road B2. At some point in the past year or so that pipe detached from the catch basin and the slope has been washed out. The pipe drops approximately 40 feet from the road down to a pond south of the road. County Road B2 was a Ramsey County-maintained road until the late-1990s. There is an old corrugated metal pipe that was laid down the hill by the County many years ago and they had connected a few sections of concrete pipe from the catch basin in the road to the metal pipe. When the road was reconstructed in 2005, the catch basin was rebuilt and one section of concrete pipe was replaced and attached to the existing concrete pipe that connected to the metal pipe. The pipe and the slope it is buried in are very difficult to see from the street. Abbott has a decorative fence running along the boulevard and there is heavy tree cover on the entire slope. Staff was made aware of the washout by Abbott employees who had spotted it while doing other maintenance in the area. See below for a street view look at the area from 2011.