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Regular Council Meeting 10-15-01 Page 3 Mayor Rinker said sewer and water pipes are two different entities. Even though your maintenance bill goes through the same administrative process, your sewer line is altogether separate from your water line. I have never heard of any asbestos in these lines. Mrs. Pollock said he [her friend] said that his pipes were iron and that they held asbestos in it. From hearing stories like that, you wonder when you look at stuff like this--is this really safe? Ten years from now are they going to tell us that it really wasn't that safe. Mayor Rinker said frankly we thought these were isolated events. We were surprised ourselves. I have lived on the street for a number of years- just about the same period of time that you have and we have had intermittent--I don't think anyone has had the concentration that you and Mrs. Neroni had--that is why early on the thought was perhaps it was something to do with the hydrant itself. I suspect it just happens to be kind of a strategic location that you are in the lines when they recirculate the water. What happens typically is that they shunt water in different directions that will agitate the pipes and it tends to collect, apparently, at your location. The bottom line is--our first goal is to get the Issue 2 Funding. We tried emergency, now we are trying it through the conventional procedure. We will know by January (and maybe even before then) whether or not we are successful with that bid. If that doesn't work, then all I can tell you is that our request will be that we budget this as part of an expenditure from the Village's General Fund if that's what we have to do because we just can't let it go by. Realistically the work would not begin until July. Mrs. Pollock said do you feel we should be paying this additional sewer maintenance costs on time when we are still dealing with this kind of a problem. Mayor Rinker said I guess the quickest answer is yes, you should because those service fees go to other functions of your sewer system that you are now hooked up to. Even though they put water and sewer on the same bill, the rates for the water are unchanged. Mrs. Pollock said this is a different charge. Mr. Buckholtz said this is a maintenance charge for the sanitary sewer. Mayor Rinker said the sewer and your water line are two different functions. Mr. Brett said what we ran into was that you have 3 entities here--you have the Village which owns the sewer line and is responsible for the water line but does not do operation or maintenance on either. The operation and maintenance fees for the water lines go to Cleveland Division of Water. The operation and maintenance fees for the sewer go to the Cuyahoga County Sanitary Engineer's Office. Let me give you the history as to why we ran into snafus on the manual charges on the operation and maintenance. When we first installed the Worton Park sewers, we met with the Sanitary Engineer's Office and, as you recall, we put out the first Sanitary Sewer Brochure and basically wanted to be able to sit down with the people from Worton Park and say, here's what's going on thus far; this is how we've worked through the process, this is what you have to look forward to with the transition from septic tanks to sanitary