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Regular Council Meeting <br />5-19-03 <br />Page 8 <br />Roll Call: AYES: All <br />NAYS: None Motion Carried <br />Ordinance Enacted (as amended) <br />OPEN PORTION - RegardinLy items under Old Business <br />Rick Christian, 510 S.O.M. Center Road - said a couple of Fridays ago I had to call Mr. <br />Buckholtz about 1:30 in the morning and I don't think he'd be too happy but my basement <br />flooded. Since the project started on the west side and they went back with bulldozers and filled <br />in a lot of area back there that used to be swamp land, now we have 4 what look to be lakes <br />along S.O.M. Center Road. I thought they were supposed to be building water retention facilities <br />there to collect excess runoff water and let it dissipate slowly. Instead of letting it dissipate <br />slowly, it is now collecting in lakes. When it rained the other night, there was about 2' over the <br />storm sewers and my sump pump couldn't pump out against the weight of the water running <br />through the storm sewers so it just backed up into my basement. This is all due to the fact that <br />this water is laying there and the water that runs down through there now has no place left to go <br />but into the storm sewers directly. Several years ago we had a nasty storm and I was out of town <br />at the time and my sump in the basement started to back up. And my wife had the great idea of <br />getting buckets and dumping it into the slop sink in the basement which ran into the sump. She <br />spent hours doing that. At 3 a.m. the other day I saw a police car and bulldozer or front end <br />loader going down the street up by Progressive. I wanted to see what they were doing so I drove <br />up there and watched the bulldozer push water back and forth for over an hour. I don't know <br />what they thought they were doing but wasting taxpayers' money for gas to run that front end <br />loader because the water was going up one side and running back down-when he hit a high <br />spot, he'd push it the other way and the water would run around. And he went back and forth for <br />over an hour pushing water. I want to know what's going to be done for water problems that we <br />are having on S.O.M. now. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked where do we start? I saw the lakes, Rick, I was up there. I <br />thought they were created to hold that water, retain them and let them out slowly. (He addressed <br />Tom Cappello and asked,) Tom-do you know what the plan is? <br />Mr. Cappello said my understanding is that those are wetland mitigation dikes that they've <br />installed. I am not sure exactly what will happen to those when they do develop that parcel. But <br />essentially those were put in as a mitigation to develop the land that Goldberg owns. <br />Mayor Rinker said wait; let's get something straight. Is there a cause and effect there or not? <br />Mr. Samac said indirectly, they are retaining some water. But they are not there for the purpose <br />of specifically retaining water to keep it out of the storm system. They are there strictly as a <br />mitigation of another wetlands further to the east on that property. <br />Mayor Rinker said I have understood in general what they wanted to do on the site to develop it <br />but that's part of their responsibility. But as far as Mr. Christian is talking about is there a <br />cause and effect to what he's talking about or do we not know the answer to that yet?