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f • 1 follow storms of the calibre the City experienced. this ,summer and 2 in 1978 . 3 Mr. Hamer told the Council he expected to be able to pay for the 4 liners from the savings-,his department had experienced because of 5 the -lower costs for gas- and oil earlier in the year. 6 Council Action 7 Motion by Ranallo, seconded by Makowske to accept the quotation of 8 $2 , 804 . 50 from the Water Products Company for the purchase of 71 . 9 manhole cover liners. 10 Motion carried unanimously. 11 Mr. Hamer indicated he would not be attending the Council ' s budqet 12 work session the following evening,m but wanted them to have a '13 general feel for some of the costs the City might be facing if the 14 other steps he was-proposing were taken. - On a map of the . City' s 15 sanitary and storm sewer_ installations the Public Works .Director' 16 pointed to the areas for which he is seeking engineering advice 17 related to taking corrective measures . He expanded on his other 18 proposals which had been mentioned in the August 19th staff 19 meeting notes with the following suggestions : 4W0 *Feasibility of 48 Inch Storm Sewer Line to be Studied 21 Mr. Hamer had provided Coundilmembers with copies of proposals 22 from Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, Inc. and Reike Carroll Muller to 23 study the feasibility and costs of constructing new 48 inch pipes 24 and backups from Harding Street behind the .Northgate Office Park 25 building, along Coolidge to hook up the Highway 88 storm sewer 26 lines s. He indicated he expected this would divert all the storm 27 water from the industrial park area and ditch lines as well as 28 from the new lines- on Coolidge which drain the area from 29th. 29 Avenue N.E. , just before the "big dropoff where the existing 30 lines have been backing up even with less than two inches of 31 rainfall. The study would also indicated just how much flow from 32 the shopping .. center area could be diverted to the holding pond 33 planned - for the new redevelopment project. 34 *Feasibility of Retention Pond in Landlocked Area West of Silver_ 35 Lake Road and Between 30th and 31st Avenues To Be Studied 36 Mr . Hamer said the . very large backyards in this area are con- 37 stantly flooded and their owners might welcome a project which 38 alleviated that. He indicated: 39 . *one *of the largest back yards is on Harding Street and its 40 owner might be willing to sell part of his land to the • 41 City for ' an outfall easement; 17