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St.Paul, Minn.,55112
7/2/79
City Council
City of Mounds View
2401 Hwy. 10
St.Paul, Minn.,55112
Dear Councilmembers:
At the most recent Council meeting I indicated that significant
material had been left out of the minutes of the June 11 Meeting relative
to comments that I made on development of the George Halvorson property.
However, T wanted to refer again to the memorandum from Lundquist Arch-
itects, Inc., before commenting further.
On page 2 of the memorandum dated May 30, 1979, Lundquist Architects
apparently claim that the soil under the projected buildings will take
approximately two parts of runoff water for each part of rainfall on the
roofs of the building -- one part because the roofs retain the rain wat-
er, and one part evidently because the land under the buildings is shel-
tered from rain. If this reasoning were to be accepted, then, in the
usual situation where rain is not collected on the roof, one part of rain
water would be taken by the soil under the building for each part that
falls on the building roof. This is a neat piece of arithm tic, but not
one that squares with the well recognized and accepted principle that
impervious surfaces contribute virtually all of their rainfall to total
runoff without regard to the condition of the underlying soil.
Sincerely,
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Neil W. Loeding
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