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~ .+y. Council Minutes of 06-21-2011 Childs gave him before he passed away. The sewer system was designed in the early 1960's and it's ill-designed and mal-installed. The city should take action against the company that designed and installed the system. He asked how many millions of gallons were bypassed this May at the sewer plant. Mayor Kennedy said he would get that number for him. Crabs asked what the EPA fined the city for that and Mayor Kennedy said they didn't fine them. The city is mandated to fix some of these problems by the end of 2014 and the city is in the process of working on this. There are two storm crews working to clean the sewers. This is a priority. Crabs submitted pictures of flooding for the Clerk of Council. Gareau asked if the Asst Superintendent of Collection and the Engineer come out to meet with Crabs; if there was any follow-up to his initial communication. Crabs said no. Gareau said that they are aware of it. Crabs made reference to the catch basins being too small and that the sanitary sewer will collapse because there is nothing supporting it. Mayor Kennedy said he will get him follow-up and answers to his questions. Crabs said there will be nothing to done to solve the problem in the lifetime of people sitting on Council. Gareau said the city is working on a $40 million sanitary collection system improvement and significant changes to the Waste Water Treatment Plant which are scheduled to be done within the next three years. This includes increasing capacity for some of the collection system areas and also increasing capacity to be able to treat the product coming down to the plant through intake and infiltration. There is action being taken including modifications to Walter Road, pump house improvements to Lebern and Dover Center Roads and a significant equalization basin improvement at Clague Park. Gareau also spoke about running cameras through the system. Crabs also referenced the mosquito problems and the County spraying parts of North Olmsted. He asked if the city is using BTI (larvae-cide). Gareau said they do use alarvae-cide and they did not aerial spray this year at Bradley Woods. Crabs suggested putting BTI in the storm sewers because mosquitoes breed in the storm sewers. Dennis Lambert, 25057 Carey Lane referenced Gareau's comments about using cameras, and he said they generally dye test. A camera does not need to be run to every house. He agreed with Gareau that it would be an impossible task to solve with Engineering. It's true that the WWTP is going to be upgraded, but the lines going to the sewer plant from all over the city are insufficient. He said he has yet to hear any attempt to connect for overflows to the Rocky River Sewer Plant which is downhill and does not require any extra pumping. Somebody in the federal government needs to look into this. The entire system needs to be looked at as aquasi-cooperative effort on a regional level. Scott Trayers, Cuyahoga Falls -owner of Play-It-Again Sports store in North Olmsted. He said he has been recently made aware of legislation regarding resale. It's a debilitating ordinance the way it's written right now. There are three or four issues that will make a store like his have to hire more people or turn away product. The record- keeping portion of the ordinances is everything in triplicate. When they take product in, they take a physical description, driver's license, etc. and individually tag every item. They also log each item in the computer. The ordinance requires not only that, but also handwriting an individual ticket for each person and keeping a log book. Every day they would be required to bring the paperwork to the police dept. There should be accountability, but doing everything three times is problematic. The ordinance also has a 5 ... ,~,~, ~.T