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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES FEBRUARY 7, 1989 PAGE 2 City Attorney Knaak asked to review the attorney's credentials and Contract Agreement. 6. Downs Lake Study, (Al Dornfeld/Barr Eng.--Karen Chandler) The Down's Lake Flood Study, prepared by Barr Engineering for the Valley Branch Watershed District, was presented by Karen Chandler, Engineer for Barr Engineering. Report Summary: When Down's Lake reaches elevation 891 to 891.6, water begins to flow west into the Eden park area. Under present conditions, Down's Lake, Eden Park Pond and Durand's Pond could all. reach elevation 892.9. Down's Lake will. recede to 891.4 within 10-15 days after beginning to run out to the south. But Eden Park Pond and Durand's Pond will remain at this high level for an indeterminate amount of time because they have no outlet. This high water level would cause damage to the Vogue and Wilfong homes and five other accessory buildings. Road access will also be cut off to 34 lots in the Eden Park and Packard Park subdivisions because of street flooding. Eden Park Pond and Durand's Pond need an outlet, either to Down's Lake (if Down's Lake is fitted with an improved outlet) or to Lake Elmo which has an outlet. Floodproofing of homes, ramifications and cost of the two options were presented. Debra Wilfong, 2229 Legion Ave. N, saw no advantage from the system proposal. Dave & Ann Bucheck, 2301 Legion Avenue N., were disenchanted with the proposal. The cost does not advance their position and were opposed to implementation of the plan. They voiced their concern on future development aggrevating the solution. John Townsley asked how many times has the pond outreached its boundaries to pay this amount of money to rectify a situation which may not happen. Tim Mandel, 2479 Lisbon Avenue, felt this would benefit the property owner of many acres of land not the small landowner. Bob Schmidt, 2295 Manning Avenue, stated he was probably the oldest resident in the area and remembers the pond flooding only once in 34 years. Al Dornfeld, VBWD, explained that no plan was proposed by the Watershed Dist. This was just a study of the Downs Lake Flooding that was requested by neighborhood residents from the Eden Park/Downs Lake area of Lake Elmo. Mayor Dunn stated the City will stay active with the VBWD to work toward a solution to benefit the propertyowners. City Engineer Larry Bohrer handed out his review, dated 2-7-89, on the Down's Lake Flood Study.