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Special Council Meeting <br />2-24-03 <br />Page 23 <br />? Mr. Brett said resizing the channels, replacing the channels up in the Upper 40. <br />Mayor Rinker said most of it is downstream from Merkel, Peirce. <br />Side discussions held. <br />Mr. Brett said it's above where the private drive comes up and then you've got that circular area <br />and then you've got where it's now blockaded from pedestrian traffic at top. It's blockaded at <br />the bottom; it's blockaded at the top and that's really kind of the area-that half-mile stretch of <br />the area of consideration---- <br />Mrs. Mills said where that big culvert is---- <br />Mayor Rinker said what basically happened, the drainage used to go pretty well southeast and <br />starting around 20 years or so ago, all of a sudden it cut out of that drainage and scoured a new <br />one and it's impacting further downstream in the Chagrin and the areas that lie adjacent to the <br />Chagrin. There's a whole wetland field in there that is being adversely impacted. It's getting <br />silted over--and these are the concerns that the Metroparks had. As I said, that wetland area and <br />the basin itself is a highly sensitive ecosystem based on the Park's position, whether you like it, <br />dislike it or not, that's a fact. And that's part of the Chagrin scenic waterway area that has come <br />under scrutiny from Columbus essentially. So, that end of the line is very, very important to <br />y them; so what this will do will be to safeguard that, allow any kind of remediation for what has <br />r been damaged so far and reverse what has been going on for years now and build a sufficiently <br />large culverting catch basin system in the original drainage area so that it won't happen again. <br />And once that system's down so the area's intact and it flows downstream as it used to and it <br />won't inundate like the Haffey properties and other downstream properties used to get and still <br />periodically have trouble. This will control all that stormwater flow that courses through that <br />area of the park. And once that's intact, the Park will come in and that's the $160,000 because it <br />will restore the trail systems and rather than building the road as it used to be decades ago, like <br />we say, we don't want a road anymore; all we want are the trail systems. But we are not about to <br />invest our money into repairing a trail system if we know that year in and year out if s going to <br />be subject to this. So you have to fix the stormwater infrastructure. So the yeoman's work is to <br />rehabilitate, to restore to repair the damaged stormwater infrastructure. <br />Mr. Marquardt said so the Village is now on the hook for $300,000 of this $1,500,000. And has <br />the grant been granted? <br />Mayor Rinker said no. <br />Mr. Marquardt said this is for the $600,000; correct? <br />Several people said right. <br />Mr. Marquardt said okay and an extra 150 is what the Park system is somehow throwing in? <br />Mr. Brett said 160.