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Council Minutes of 4/21/98 replaced. If we do not have the window of time to do the work, we will do it at a later date. Susan Morrow, 6195 Stafford Drive, has flooded six times in the eleven years she has lived in the home. She lives right next to where the storm drain takes the water to Stearns Road. There are three drains in her back yard: one goes to Lorain Road; one does not connect to anything; one drain is on top of the main drain that takes the water to Stearns Road. When the rain comes down hard, the street floods and the back yards flood so much that ducks can be found swimming in the yards. The front yards are flooded, which was a problem that was supposedly fixed three years ago. City employees do come out, but the situation has not been resolved. Dean Kohler, 6181 Stafford Drive, is Mrs. Morrow's neighbor and agreed with her comments. He has flooded seven times in five years. Mr. Kohler said that nothing ever seems to get done about the problem. Mr. Nashar said he had visited the area several times and thought that the city had corrected the problem. However, the report concerning the rains of April 16 and 17 indicates that the main in that area was full. He has asked Mr. Bohlmann to videotape the area to look for blockages that could be causing the problems. Mrs. Morrow expressed frustration because it seems that nothing is being done. Mrs. Saringer asked where the water was coming from. Mrs. Morrow said it was coming through the foundation. Mr. Kohler said he also gets water coming up through the drains. Mr. Bohlmann said that he, Dennis Long, Larry Griffith and an Engineering inspector walked the ditch Friday afternoon. All of the open part of the storm channel is open. He does plan to videotape the area as requested by Mr. Nashar. Several minor obstructions were found from Bretton Ridge east along that ditch line--but nothing of any serious consequence. However, the height of the water was alarming. On the east side of McKenzie Road the storm channel runs between two houses and into a back yard. The whole storm channel is depressed because of debris and somewhere along the line somebody installed a 4 foot diameter concrete pipe for the length of about 100 feet. The amount of water that was flowing in the storm channel backed up at that point and, in turn, backed up the entire ditch and that, in turn, covered the storm sewers at Somerset and Stafford. Consequently, some streets and basements were flooded. The Engineering Department put the information on a SWMM (Storm Water Management Model). The costs will be estimated, and he will come back to Council to discuss funding to correct the problem. Mr. McKay asked about a time frame. Mr. Bohlmann said before the end of the year. Mr. Nashar said he had been told that on Stafford some of the storm drains coming out of the homes are not pitched correctly. Mr. Bohlmann said one was dug up today and it was found that one of the problems, which is a small contribution, was that there is about 15 foot of the storm line going from the house to the street that was totally mudded and rooted up. Also, the elevation was not inverted going back to the house--it was rather flat and didn't have the correct percentage of flow. In these situations, the residents need to install a sump pump to push the water out. However, he does not believe this is the main source of the problem, which he does believe is on McKenzie Road. Once the videotaping is done, he will have a better idea of the problems. There is ^°""° some sediment under the Windsor Drive culvert, but that should not cause the amount of 8