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Regulatr Council Meeting 1-22-01 Page 3 at the same time we have tried to play some catch up and there is still some catch up that is left to lot of the development in the north end of the Village and as you all know S.O.M. Center Road is a project of some longstanding and we expect to break ground at least halfway through this year, and that is going to be a project that is going to take many months to complete. Part of that project is to complete a water line that is replacing old and adding new water line along that entire route and completing a loop for pressurizing [lines] arid providing really a redundancy safety system that we have elsewhere in the Village that we have not :enjoyed in the north end of town for some time. If you talk to our Fire Chief, he will tell you that this is something that at times has kept him up at night thinking about some of the scenarios involved with not having the kind of water pressure or redundancy system that is needed. Obviously with the development of Progressive, (one of the primary users in the area is that business) but it also would be providing to other residential areas that lie along S.O.M. and Highland roads and White Road as well. That is a major project, the bulk of which is being covered under either our funding for the widening of S.O.M. or also from some of the State Infrastructure bank funds and the 'IIF monies that we some as recently as the last few weeks, bear mentioning because I would suggest that as a we sit here now, even a few months ago we wouldn't have realized that we probably have three and do. And a The proj number ects of that we things have have , one come for back to the completion fore, of really in just infrastructure, the the last few completion of months and perhaps four projects that are pending that could qualify for Issue II funding. Issue II funding, as we know from experience, is a very competitive process and is devoted to big scale projects. have designated for completian of infrastructure projects. We also have found, however, in my neighborhood we were rather surprised to find out that part of our water line is so percolated (tuberculated is actually the word that is used) that the line needs to be replaced along that stretch. And we suspect, although we do not know, that it is possible that another one of our older neighborhoods (which is Seneca, Glenview, Bonnieview, that area of Beech Hill) that system may also be one that may be amenable to it. We do not know. We were aware last year that the number of breaks in that area seemed to be higher than normal. What often happens in these things is because we rely upon the City of Cleveland Water Department to do a lot of the diagnosing of problems, we are somewhat captive to what they do. The problem in Worton Park came to light almost inadvertentiy and we learned a few things from that and we probably can an-ticipate that there is at least the potential for other development there. And these are not cheap projects; they require a lot of money. We are right now applying for emergency funds. Council will be looking at that tonight for the water line that is on Worton Park. Again, this is a long-term issue. We found in the major storm at the end of August last year, which really was kind of a litmus test for a lot of existing systems, it woke up a lot of people in an area that a number of years ago was very resistant to switching over from septic systems to sanitary sewer systems. And I think that as time has gone by, experience has proven that that is an improvement that we have to look at seriously. And we had met in the fall and we are planning to put together an Issue II application which will be submitted in the fall (that is usually when they are submitted in September) for the Meadowood, Eastgate, a part of Thornapple, that neighborhood for sanitary sewer lines. And history has also shown that once we dig up an area, we try to kill a number of birds with one stone. And in all likelihood, we will be looking at certain storm water