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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, August 21, 2023 Page 6 With that, that's the presentation I have. I would be happy to try and answer any questions the Mayor or Council or the audience may have. Tom Egan 1035 Worton Park Drive I think somebody needs to look at the high school water coming from the back. It had to be almost 2-3 feet deep coming across that concrete pad in the back there. They made a 3 foot trench and it just went berserk from that point forward. The high school is our culprit that's causing it on the Woodlane side. Mr. Blair stated, as part of the work that Tom is looking at is that. We discussed it with them. We put in three water level meters in the neighborhood. There's one right at that concrete that exits the basin. There's one on Woodlane Drive. There's one as it exits Worton Park Drive and goes into Progressive Insurance's property. We do actually actively monitor that. We get readings approximately 10-30 seconds. We do have the measurements over there from what happened during the August I Ith and 12th rain. We also recognize that that basin is in need of some work. We want to try to work with the vegetation that's in there and do something with that. Basically it's just designed to be a dry detention basin so it provides some capacity for retaining water and stormwater. We are working with your engineer's office to address that. While the upstream area with the high school and the fact it is a culprit, it's not the sole culprit. You also have the branch that goes straight through the middle of the neighborhood and extends further upstream. Basically through the Worton Park Drive neighborhood and the neighborhoods up above, there's really no stormwater control measures that were installed when these areas were built to manage that water. That's what we are trying to do now, basically take into account that those are not in place and get the logistics and the finances to do something without totally wreaking havoc with the impact on the neighborhood. We are trying to adjust all of that. With our study, we are looking to manage it to try to prevent as much as possible any first floor invasion of buildings and roadways. I appreciate what you said, Mr. Egan. That's one of the things we want to look at with the flooding you mentioned. There is a basin at the high school and then there's a very narrow cinderblock channel that's very restrictive. In fact the walls are actually starting to collapse. It goes into a culvert in front of your house and it goes to that crossing. We do have a plan to try to address that. We are in talks with the property owner to see if we can try to acquire the property and if we can do that, then what that would allow us to do is to relocate that stream, get it out of that cinderblock lined channel that's falling down. We can widen it and bring it over to the south and route it in a way that we can get a different approach as it goes under Woodlane Drive. That would hopefully address the concerns with Woodlane Drive and with the restrictions we have with that open stream site and the culvert. Again, you are going to see lawn flooding. I can commiserate with everyone. I live in Olmsted Township. They killed all of my development. We get a lot of lawn flooding. What we want to try to do is address the roadways and buildings as much as we can and then deal with lawn flooding. That's on a second tier than the infrastructure is. Mr. Meyers asked, have they entertained trying to put a retention basin at the school along the east side?