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S 1 -9- <br /> 2 -said he perceived there were a lot of people in St. Anthony <br /> 3 who had experienced the same problems with the rain last <br /> 4 Thursday night because both the sanitary and storm sewers <br /> 5 had been overloaded with 9 inches of rain falling on the <br /> 6 City in such a short period of time; <br /> 7 -reported his own drain tile is correctly connected to a <br /> 8 sump pump which directs the ground water around his home out <br /> 9 into his back yard; but <br /> 10 -said the water was seeping into his house from the front <br /> 11 yard and running down his floor drains; <br /> 12 -had concluded if this was true of a lot of homes in the <br /> 13 Village, it certainly would have helped to overload the <br /> 14 entire sanitary sewer system that night. <br /> 15 Mr. Hamer agreed that many homes had experienced surface water inflow <br /> 16 which had nothing to do with sanitary sewer backup from incorrectly <br /> 17 connected drain tiles . He also said there had been infiltration from <br /> 18 the overloaded storm sewer system into the sanitary sewer system. <br /> 19 The Public Works Director said the City had done two things prior to the <br /> •20 July 23rd storm which had helped the situation considerably: <br /> 21 *a bypass had been installed on Downers Drive through Wilshire <br /> 22 Park which directed sewage into the Lydia Street connection with <br /> 23 Roseville; and <br /> 24 *a second bypass was made on Anthony Road and Roosevelt Street <br /> 25 which directed sewage into the Minneapolis system.. <br /> 26 Mr. Hamer said, because of these bypasses, there had been less pumping <br /> 27 time on Wilson Street but when the sewage reached the Lydia connection, <br /> 28 it was overloaded and the sewage was forced down 29th Avenue and into so <br /> 29 many basements on that street that his department couldn' t keep up with <br /> 30 all the calls for assistance which came in. He added that many persons <br /> 31 whose basements had been damaged had failed to let the City know about <br /> 32 it until the next day. <br /> 33 Mr. Kremer said he perceived the Public Works and Fire Department had <br /> 34 nothing to apologize for after the way City crews had tried to do <br /> 35 everything they could to help after the crisis. However, the resident <br /> 36 said he wondered what the City could do to force disconnection of drain <br /> 37 tiles into the sanitary sewers. <br /> 38 Mr. Hamer told him it had not only been the sanitary sewers which had <br /> 39 been overtaxed. He said the amount of rain the City had received had <br /> 40 been demonstrated by the fact that the five or six acres of holding <br /> �41 <br />