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Council Minutes of 11/5/2003 taken from your property and put somewhere else. Hopefully, it would end up in Lake Erie. Now as far as the second phase of the Clean Water Act of 1964, the EPA has said they want to retain as much water as possible on the individual properties where they are generated-point source water shed management. So they are actually advocating collecting ponds on properties to retain the water. The EPA said they have certain guidelines to be complied with and certain tazget dates that need to be looked at. Their first date was October 2002. They have extended some target dates. As far as the guidelines aze concerned, if you want to go ahead and install pipes and those kinds of things, you do so at your own risk. Once the city plan is in place, the EPA could require the city to tear out pipes that aze in conflict with the plan. Mr. McKay said he does not agree with the EPA ideas that businesses should retain water in parking lots until it can run out at a slower rate. We tried that years ago, and that's what got us into the $38 million debt to fix all the sanitary sewers in our city. He doesn't know why they are advocating this when they know it doesn't work. Dennis Lambert, 25057 Cazey Lane ^ He was involved with sewer work when on Council. (Fairview Pazk) He is not familiar with most current EPA regulations, but their main focus is inflow and infiltration-leaking water from storm into sanitary sewer systems and sewage going into the natural lakes. If fundamental sewers aze now in place that have been there for about 50-70 years, what you do with a ditch is not part of what is going on. Whether you dump water into a closed or open ditch, it's going in the same place- the same sewers that were there before. This is not jeopardizing anything. The real issue is do we want a plan for the city to install the sewers and culverting ditches the way it should be done with street work and doing it properly? Mr. Limpert noted we are dealing with the federal government and regulations. One other thing they are encouraging is percolation or infiltration into the soil as opposed to keeping it in the pipe. Charles Dial, 27959 Gardenia ^ He asked what the fuel issue was with regard to the sale of the library site. Law Director Dubelko said the issue resulted from negotiations. A point that the school board wished to address in the negotiations for the sale of the library building was a supposed or an alleged claim that the school board had against the city relating to alleged increases in administrative fees charged as part of the price of the diesel fuel that the school board buys from the city. That was brought into the negotiations, and so the legislation will provide for conditions of the sale: (1) the payment of $550,000 for the purchase of the building; (2) execution of a release on that issue- that the school board will release the city from any and all liability for any of those alleged increases that may or may not have been correctly charged in the past. Mr. Dial felt the city should use acounter-negotiating ploy and suggest that the schools f nd another source from which to purchase fuel. 12