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1 follow storms of the' -calibre the City experienced this . summer and <br /> 2 in 19.78 . <br /> 3 'Mr. Hamer told *the' Council he- expected to be able to: pay for the <br /> 4 liners from the.' savings his -department had experienced because of <br /> 5 the lower costs for gas and oil earlier in the year. <br /> 6 Council Action <br /> 7 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Makowske to accept the quotation of <br /> 8 $2 , 804 . 50 from the Water Products -Company for the purchase of 71 <br /> 9 manhole cover liners. <br /> 10 Motion carried unanimously. <br /> 11 Mr. Hamer indicated he would not be attending the Council ' s budget <br /> 12 work session the following evening,m but wanted them to have a <br /> 13 general feel for some of the costs the City might be facing if the <br /> 14 other steps one was proposing were taken. On a map of the City' s <br /> 15 sanitary and storm sewer installations. the Public Works Director <br /> 16 - pointed to the areas for which he is seeking engineering advice <br /> 17 related to taking corrective measures . He expanded on his .other . <br /> 18 proposals which had been mentioned in the August l9th .staff <br /> 19 meeting notes with the following suggestions : <br /> �20 *Feasibility of 48 ' Inch Storm Sewer Line to be Studied <br /> 21 Mr . Hamer had provided Councilmembers with copies of proposals <br /> 22 from Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, Inc. and -Reike Carroll Muller to <br /> 23 study the feasibility and costs of constructing new 48 inch pipes <br /> 24 and backups from Harding Street behind the Northgate Office Park <br /> 25 building, along Coolidge to hook up the Highway 88 storm sewer <br /> 26 lines . He indicated he expected this would divert all the storm <br /> 27 water from the industrial park area - and ditch lines as well as <br /> 28 from the new lines on Coolidge which drain the area from 29th <br /> 29 Avenue N.E. , just before the "big "dropoff" where the existing <br /> 30 lines have been backing _ up even with .less than two inches -of <br /> 31 rainfall. The study would also indicated just how much flow from <br /> 32 - the shopping center area could be diverted to the holding pond <br /> 33 planned for the new redevelopment project. <br /> 34 *Feasibility of Retention Pond in Landlocked Area West of Silver <br /> 35 Lake Road and Between 30th and 31st Avenues To Be Studied <br /> 36 Mr. Hamer said the very large back yards . in this area are con- <br /> 37 stantly flooded and. their, owners might welcome a project which <br /> 38 alleviated that. He indicated: <br /> 39 *one of the largest back- yards is on Harding Street and its <br /> 40 owner might be willing to sell ,part of his land to the <br /> • 41 City for an outfall easement; <br /> 17 <br />