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Council Minutes of 9/6/2005 Director and got no reply. Has lived on Ambour Drive since 1959 when first built. He called Safety Director this morning asking for a reply to letter. He has offered to go through the history of flooding on Ambour Drive. When he first bought his home, he had a floor drain. The city plugged all the floor drains and the residents had to cement over them. Now they just have sanitaries under the wash tubs. When storm lines flood because they are inadequate, the basements flood and they choke the sanitaries. No sanitary can handle that much water because it's all storm water. Mayor O'Grady said he did not say there wasn't notification of storms, there was no pinpoint notification. There was a general alert for the State of Ohio and the northeastern region of the country. Based on that, we don't call people in for overtime. As to the letter, neither he nor the Law Director have it. He will get a copy from the Service Director. He will be happy to have Mr. Myers came in and talk to them about the flooding history of Ambour Drive. 13) Ken Hayes, 23968 Ambour Drive, said he started when he was about 10 or 12 years old carrying buckets out of his parent's basement. Unfortunately, he now has both houses to bail out. Had three pumps and was unable to pump enough water out it was coming in so fast. This time, he probably lost about $7,000 in his basement. He called the city that Saturday and asked them to get somebody out to help the older neighbors on the street, and he was told somebody would be out. He is still waiting. Some of the residents have check valves. Before check valves were put in, he never had water. The retention put in the park right behind his house did not help. He still gets water-raw sewage. Is a health issue. He has been carrying water out of basements on Ambour Drive for 35 years. He bought pumps on his own so he can pump it out- still no answer from city. 14) Jim Burns, 3978 Dover Center. About 15 years ago, the EPA was talking about mandating the treatment of storm water. He is wondering where they are with that or have they backed off. He is concerned that someday, perhaps in 50 years, the sanitary and storm is basically going to be the same system and have to go through the treatment plant. Service Director Driscoll answered that the EPA requires us to have a permit, for two years now, to discharge storm water into state waterways. What the EPA regulates is the quality, not the quantity of storm water that we discharge into the waterways. They do require us to set goals and record the measures that we take to clean up the quality of the water. Some of those measures also help with the quantity-help with flow of storm water. 15) Jerome Barrett, 24125 LeBern Drive, spent his whole life working in wastewater treatment. What the Mayor said, a lot of people don't want to hear it, that the amount of water that came down in that amount of time, there is no system in the world that is going to be able to handle it. However, North Olmsted is the only community he knows of in northeast Ohio that uses pumps to pump sewage into the streets. When Dennis Long was environmental engineer one problem he identified in Ward 2 was a section of Fairview Park comes into our sewer system. Fairview is only allowed to discharge so much flow into the interceptor coming down Clague Road. Mr. Long identified that Fairview was putting in double the flow that they were allowed to. That would cause a backup on the Clague Road sewer. How much of an impact is that having on overflows using the pumps? Mr. Barker brought up an issue which disturbs him-the Hall ditch 21