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� <br /> � <br /> . 3 . <br /> Orono City Council 2 October 6, 1980 <br /> n n <br /> possible risks of damage to the area in which the sewer w��.l d <br /> C <br /> be put as well. This possibility of damage arises from toe�'o o Z <br /> areas . � � n <br /> � r <br /> Iu the first place, it is impossible to tell what the res t � <br /> of digging the sewer and piling the bottom on a 50-foot e e- � � <br /> ment strip during the course of construction will be on t� o rn <br /> swamp as a whole. Whatever the engineers and contractors ay, ;.� <br /> it is evident that it is impossible to tell because it is�hat � <br /> fact which makes the bid for the sewer as high as it is i�our � <br /> area. The obstacles to be met by the contractor in digging <br /> through. the wet area are so uncertain that the bid must be as <br /> high as possible to protect the contractor. And if in the dig- <br /> ging, or in the use of machinery and the piling of heavy mud on <br /> the soil along the trench, even for a relatively short period of <br /> time, the bottom or general drainage is damaged or the area <br /> flattened, it will be a very long time before it returns to its <br /> present state, if it ever does . One thing is certain, the area <br /> will not be returned to its present state regardless of any form <br /> of contract because the nature of the soil and the work done will <br /> prevent it. This wetland condition probably runs from at least <br /> the edge of the Jester' s land across that land, our land, the <br /> Eastman land and on up toward Highway 84 . <br /> In the second place, a fact which will have a bearing upon the <br /> matter mentioned in the previous paragraph, the land in that <br /> area is extremely unstable. It is so unstable, and unstable in <br /> such an uneven -fashion, that in the springtime it is quite com- <br /> mon for even a car as light as a Toyota to get stuck in soft <br /> spots in the driveway while other parts of the driveway remain <br /> hard and stable. It is so unstable that historically it has <br /> proved impossible to pave the driveway even after corduroying <br /> it with willow logs because the logs heave out of the ground and <br /> the driveway breaks up. As a consequence, the long stretches of <br /> pipe which will be used will be whipped up and down much as one ' <br /> might crack the end off of a whip, or bend a coat hanger until <br /> � it splits from constant bending. Of course, the contractors and <br /> engineers• will describe the tensile strength of the pipe being <br /> used and the flexibi•lity of the material, but even if true this > <br /> fact will simply transfer the pressure of the movement to the <br /> joints, and the area from one side of our lot to the driveway <br /> of the Eastman' s is a long area. Should it be that the engineers <br /> are wrong and the pipes or joints break, the accumulated sewage <br /> from Scotch Pine Lane down to the point of the break will flow <br /> into the swamp. That such a possibility exists can be seen from <br /> the situation which developed in the Wayzata-Ferndale area near <br /> the end of their system close to the Lindberg' s where another <br /> wetland area exists. And should such a situation develop, the <br /> damage is not such as can be corrected by spending a few dollars . <br /> When Mr. Luke was speaking of this possibility of breaking, he <br /> mentioned that at least on his land the•re was a large area suitable <br /> for drainage, but if the effluent is discharged into the wetland, <br />