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Ms. Burton expressed concern about drainage in her area, as a pond was created without an outlet. She reiterated there are serious drainage areas all over the City and they should be taken care of with one plan. Doug Fountain, 15255 Garnet Street N.W., Ramsey, suggested questions should be asked of Mr. Terry Hendriksen such as "did he receive a red tag during construction". Mr. Fountain stated that Mr. Clayton Berg, who was the building inspector for the City of Ramsey at that time, is present and maybe he should be asked about the permits, etc. Stanley Welsh, 15443 Ramsey Boulevard N.W., Ramsey, suggested leaving everything alone. "His (Hendriksen) feet were wet before he started his building. Forget it - let it go." Amy Hagen, 7041 ~ 156th Avenue N.W., Ramsey, stated "he's (Hendriksen) one person who built a barn on low land - why should the rest of us pay $28,000". She continued that, at one point, Mr. Jankowski had suggested that it was not worth doing the little ditch because it would not make the drainage eventually go into the Rum River. She noted that Mr. Jankowski had said that cleaning culverts was taken care of under the City's taxes so if this is part of the project, shouldn't it be already paid for with tax monies. Mr. Jankowski stated that cleaning of culverts would be paid for with taxes, however, this entails installation of culverts and that would not be covered. Ms. Hagen inquired how many culverts were being added to which Mr. Jankowski replied three. Ms. Hagen then inquired if that includes the one that has to be lowered to which Mr. Jankowski replied no, but the cost for doing such is included in the estimated project cost. He added it would not be proper to create that large of a conduit without doing the same thing to County Ditch//3. Ms. Hagen inquired if the pond north of his (Hendriksen's) pasture has been noted and added that she does not understand how this will all work. Mr. Jankowski indicated the benefit here is we are creating an opening for the water to flow out. Ms. Hagen stated there are homes flooding in Ramsey and we are worrying about some guy's horse pasture. She suggested looking at our priorities. Dan Goepfert, 7601 - 163rd Lane N.W., Ramsey, stated that the previous owners of his home stated they never had water problems. Now the ditches are plugged and there are water problems. He expressed a hope that this would take care of the water problem in the area. He inquired if it will change the water table in the area. Mr. Jankowski suggested you would need to have sophisticated calculations to determine if the Ordinary High Water elevation would be lowered. Bruce Bacon, 7363 - 175th Avenue N.W., Ramsey, explained how erosion can cause measurements to change from two to three feet below the original level. He stated that water qualitative issues are tied to longer range issues and we are concerned about expenditure and priorities. If water is flowing out quicker - it's getting somewhere else quicker. This area is kind of a local wetland and that's where the economic responsibility ought to lie. He suggested leaving water quality issues out of this. He added that it's not City Council/March 14, 1995 Page 9 of 15