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August 25, 1995 TO: - —'im Bingham FROM: J.R. Medlin SUBJECT: STORMWATER STRUCTURES AND MAINTENANCE Hi Tim, I know the following is not in the requested format, however I find that I'm not comfortable I can give coherent answers to the questions in the manners requested. I believe this to be due to the amount of unknowns and assumptions needing to be made in the form as well as many aspects of the stormwater program itself. I still have issues with the lack of Eugene specific information available: 1. I don't understand the scope or size of proposed "regional" facilities. I bring this up because my replies to the following questions could be drastically different if I knew we were dealing with one or one hundred of these. The same goes for the on -site facilities. Looking at our drainages I fail to see where you can place regional facilities of any size that wouldn't likely result in an unacceptable level of disruption of the existing uses of the lands. I've heard a lot about the dual purpose land use of combining detention/retention basins with parks, but in the case of Eugene I haven't seen anything proposed which wouldn't require the removal from park use of major portions of the Amazon or Westmoreland parks. I would find this exercise problematic if there were truly no places that we could have a reasonable expectation to gain approval for the placement of these regional facilities. 2. I don't understand the magnitude of the existing water quality problem. Not understanding this, I can't explain the program to customers. I find it very difficult to be supportive of a program I don't understand and am unable to explain the need for in specific terms. 3. I don't understand where the program is going. There are no defined goals, instead a philosophy of performing the "best management practices ". The definition of these 1