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Home My WebLink AboutCanal Signatures I a e when you can repair the canal fora loss and environmental dam g fraction of the cost? air and keep the We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead rep canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: r Email/Phone # (optional): V signature: . z Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when 1 contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project ...desPite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage- and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coii exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: 9eS rt,vl lfV 11 C Address: l.~ ✓ - Email/Phone # (optional): ~J 1 Z 9~ 3 32 ( Signature: CI-)4 c ,,<~,Tj(~ ~7~'e-L ✓.r r~~t ~yl L~' C~-Csc.~; C('t ,t- ,l f `3 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utillties_ If this report as It states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable` residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? e s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when'i contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree t , loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: Oy" p ~ Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: y Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities_ If this report as It states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have 1 funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? a. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance,, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to nd addressing our concerns. Name: //`~1A(~ JD~WpN q Address: / 6k, (~l~ PP/YL o`er / 7 5010 Email/Phone # (optional):_ IT GWYI q ee-3 ~ I. COM Signatu Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: t? '~Q ✓ 0 t'~ (iv S V-) I, Address: a ~CMt Vz- Q Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: I ~ Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over ti others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? i 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why - 2 million dollars i in the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: -0- k1ld El-~:' Address: Email/Phone # (optional): !~:k 4 VAffo0 COM Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over i i others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. i Name: \\j t~~51 CA- 4~4~~ Address: Email/Phone # (optional): CJ~~ ~~2 22~ e S('-(C'q I~ A)54K!]~? -a( 700, 0&1 Signature: ' g Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? ~I I 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: C, ti's PS l~ r e- Z- Address: I Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: 7 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Na me:-'f~l U ah K- Address: (1Jf}- yo 0C) Sf Q(L Email/Phone # (optional): IL o6-L CaNck'~ 1 w"-n Q~D La Signature: akkbo i Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any L potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department Hof Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low ceitainty of outcome shout be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and Ion ter impacts to ad'acent properties exists from construction impacts and oten ial canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience tempor, ry disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, quipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic d lays, dust and interruptions in utilities_ If this report as It states is only curs ry, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on prope owners? z. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of 00 privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, hoLv much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have I funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when'll contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Bjnr'1 `f ~iA-rrtJ C4 Address:G I "JO Uk~'QA-~~ D~2. °I75~0 Email/Phone # (optional Signature: I Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: only a cursory review was performed, therefore only,a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? z. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when.) contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option. exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for respo ding to and addressing our concern . l~r Name: I l 1 Address: \ 4 Email/Phone # (option Signature: T ~Z Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have I funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when 1 contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashla nd-Phoe nix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli.in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. 1 1~~C~ Y~ Name: Address: tflc" CZ C~ V\" Q-C~ LAI, Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1, Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exlsts from construction impacts and potential canal allure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? s. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have r funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: 3 C' T2- Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: i ICf Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The nal it Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 1, J -n otified-in 5. 1 a-beiA-thisp e ? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: 1D,25 Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as It states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have i funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? $843,310 s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. Anew liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: Email/Phone # (optional):_R-'Zdl /awf- Signature: ' Jh Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? s. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over i others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: /"1Qa/y y oygne!! Address: RQ d. Mrfuwr"m) Aw,, SWCmd, ok I75 Q Email/Phone # (optional): _-541 - 41- 5304 Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively loan certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities_ If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? i. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of_ privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? s. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to.the project? a. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coii issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and kee the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, an we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: Q2 S Email/Phone # (optional): J 2 DlQ Signature: ~ mac, fa_~_ f.~ ~ Gl%l2i[~' cMt>'-,~~„-rte//'' Q , ~ s~2 y~~✓~✓/~~YZ~Gg~ . Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was perfort-ned, therefore cr,ly a relctively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts t adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? I 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our t x dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-; million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired owners? $543,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home I 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified it writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and th- stated it by chance, an they when project was not disclosed to me. I found out about contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they y did no know about this pipe project-despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all, residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being when we utilized? have already spend another $4-:6 million dollars dep ei~g lthe ean drinking canal eking water to Ashland? spent 14 million on a project that 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and E soli would along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A newliw~ with curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal y pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive taxes and up it,a, exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. ~ 6n 4 V;~6 Name: - Address: S60 -C) Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as It states is only cursory, where-is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up-in until utilities are restored? " . _'_..a_ as co woPeft~- GINFRPM46f the disruption %o %hek4hms?-~ --p ivacy?-If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? i 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this 'ect? Why our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this pro1 Y spend 4-6 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-6 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million an a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as rv~r- the E.coli issue~• E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: 560 le-iraci At"J M, Email/Phone # (optional): ' C C'VM Signature:_ i 7-0 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory revieuv was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? s. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s'. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when j contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coll would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. Anew liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: ~ 7 f y~- Address: p ~.~9e-(l e r- Email/Phone # (optional):_~ Q r+ S trl"Pee Signature: v I 24 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities_ If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? I 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: *'/4RL vVDLI`C~ Address: S~10010, OX Email/Phone # (optional): 6V`7U~`o635 Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any - potential impact to the homes along the proposed "route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. i Name:-,Mmq V U e0 e Address: d Pin44 , A A5blotd, nk T75 Email/Phone # _ (optional): J "t C~~ _ Signature: ?,WtzLA-J-n w3PO i Z~z Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners of 1071 Wildwood Way, which is along the proposed TID pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 3, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Onlya cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long-term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? Although the canal is already underground on our property, we were told that up to twelve trees would need to be removed. This would markedly lower the appeal of the setting and thus lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? I Z'f Dear council members, Regarding my concerns with the proposed closing of the TID canal... I purchased my home in 2013, and choose this home because of the proximity of the canal. The TID borders 220' of my lower lot line. There are many trees on my property that will be removed if the canal is piped, The down slope is well over 30 degrees and I am concerned about erosion and the breakdown of the slope of my property and how that will adversely affect my home that lies above it. I am concerned that the costs for this project are extensive, and disproportionate to the reasons stated by the proposal which are leakage, and e-coli. Piping the canal will not stop e- coli from entering the water as the obvious miles of TID that lie open up stream of the proposed promect. Repairing the canal is less expensive and less invasive and repairing the canal will absolutely minimize leakage, and is the only viable option in my opinion. strongly urge the council to vote no, with the proposed closing project of the canal for the reasons mentioned above. Please consider patching and fixing the canal. then wait a few years to see the leakage numbers come in. Lastly, my mediation and spiritual practice is rooted in the connection to water, another reason I purchased this home„ and is an important part of my life, if the TID is closed I will loose that. Thank you for the consideration to not close the TID James Sheridan 825 Waterline rd Ashland, OR 97520 t I Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty o outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and Iona term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal ailure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities_ If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a~budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have r funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when] contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: r~- Address: ` % ~~~0, Email/Phone # (optional): I Signature: I 2( Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1, Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively ,ow certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiocent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have i funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when,l contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coll would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. i Name: -7%/g ~ s' KPPV ~ef(2 A Address: ldz) °St Email/Phone # (optional): eo-n I<ee-U6 1 _'17 Signature: • V~L- Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. in the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory revf - w was per j'br i'iicl therefore v.Ny a relatively low certalnt o outcome It: should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding; is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when l contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents'who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The-stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal, are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thankyou in advance for responding to and addressing ou7- r Address: ncerns. Name: 1,011-MIII-Al S~~ ) /L.4!!22- /j Email/Phone # (optional): Soy/cs`~itrly tv-,rhvVQtier Signature: it Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i, Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering Ik Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty o outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and Iona term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as It states is only cursory; where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 4. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when') contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coll exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: Email/Phone # (optio al):_ `2- Signature: 1 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i, Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty o outcome should be expected from this review. The potential forboth short term and Iona term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities_ If this report as It states is only cursory; where is the report that studies the.actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project?: 3. Have•you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my propert y value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: U Email/Phone # (optional):- QG D yfG E- ' CD 1Y Signature: 'S &I'VI 0VW &Ja v C-) Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the rePort they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? z. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before, it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Steil Address:d9eD 46xan 1x3ty J45iit-.Ak2b Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you f ~ pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: R4-1-47`ozo Address: 1~12 7561 Email/Phone # (optional): `""~v~ Signature: -Z Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: A12- 344 5-7-- 4-~f/-Z-4'm L'~"'/` `~75 20 Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: acs? Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? s. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over r others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: ►/1✓1 S Address: ~J,,lfip Email/Phone # (optional): Goy \J I\J Signature: n h Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: ~ l Address: Email/Phone # (optional : ^ Signature: ` J J Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over J others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you M pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. I 6.VZZ71 Name: Address: Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: 34o Dear City Council members, I We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and lonq term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? s. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you J pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: G~ In S L Address: Email/Phone # (optional):C~^ Signature: i Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over I others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project-despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: C- Address: C) Email/Phone # (optional): ht t~ Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: ~(Aepof Address: (7--, G) C> Email/Phone # (optional). V1,~~ c_C Q_~~ c, Signature: - Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Jennifer Downs Address:-880 Pinecrest Terrace, Ashland, Oregon Email/Phone 541488 4872 G Signature: 1113 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s: Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree --I ' I I To Pipe or not to Pipe the Ashland CanalP Informational Meeting Facts and Discussion Saturdays in August *August 10, 12-1:00pm E.co/I Issues *August 17, 12-1:00pm Cost Issues *August 24, 12-1:00pm Citizens' Alternative Place: Ashland Library Basement Meeting Room Y. t Organized by the Citizens' Alternative City Councilors and City Staff are being personally invited. GO TO: ashiandtrails.conVkeep-the-canal/ Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name. ✓ Address: V, 0 /Y Email/Phone # C (optional). Signature: 2 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project-despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: >'~L-" M" , Address: 130 We [-d Email/Phone # _ (optional): -7 515;-/ Signature: 43 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you 1 pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address:- 1--1AJeCICEV Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: (/eL t Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have A` funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree F loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for /responding to and addressing our concerns. ELEn~ Name: Address: ~ZOD ~iN~G,p~s~ T~eRE Email/Phone # (optional):/ ~Og~D 6 a l2 yrta~ c~vU Signature:c ,t~ 1 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? s. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have f funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: w To Pipe or not to Pipe the Ashland CanalP Informational Meeting Facts and Discussion Saturdays in August *August 10, 12-1:00pm E.coli Issues *August 17, 12-1:00pm Cost Issues *August 24, 12-1:00pm Citizens' Alternative Place: Ashland Library Basement Meeting Room .Y t iN SF i +Y' fl ` a aT ^rx was BM Organized by the Citizens' Alternative City Councilors and City Staff are being personally invited. GO TO: ashiandtrails.com/keep-the-canal/ I V ~0 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you I pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. I Name: enl Address: &I' T' _ A Email/Phone # I0 ffv1 ~ i COi✓I (optional): Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: A _I7 I k" n I dldM&& Address: b ozo (,Ai Uwo0~ F-P, A-54 [uACam(') it q-757 I Email/Phone # (optional): dQ1,'i;Q (JM.rt~ Signature: Lie Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 204 i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities, If this report as It states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners?. 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put,property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coll exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coll would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. p O Name:5/~- 1\ Address: 1 ~1U/G Email/Phone # ptional): Signature: I I Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Mernorandum. In the introduction of the, report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities_ If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding. is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? s. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the. affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have i funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? I 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coll would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: L-61 V c In l LAAalo Lyn Address: L"L> n Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: ? i i Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performers, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? s. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have I funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when 1 contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project-despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance f=esponding ddressin g our concerns. Name Address: Zl `S Z- Email/Phone # (optional): -7 ~ 3 ~~z Signature: /l` 4 S1 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? a. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: q I' 1C) V~-TOw CC1( Email/Phone # (optional): f f Signature: / S-z Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over f ' others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? i I s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you ~ f pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: a : i I i Dear City Council members, ~I We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you r pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: ZZIX/ IV/t OK-)ZOLL Address: 3,129 Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project-despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: ( Address: I) I\ / ✓ Email/Phone # (optional): I Signature: I Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: 13 " " - / r~ /(5 Address: -'7 ~ I ke'r- f Email/Phone # (optional): Signature:'+J' Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore onlya relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities: If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: ~~~~`T1 . rV D L--c Svt> Address: l z~ Pr--Ds-p¢c t Email/Phone # (optional): /VELcort,) C M► n/c~ Ne, 1 Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: i Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i, Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have i funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my prope arch 2 9, and the project no I c e s now i nd? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 01 TV- 4 \A-95~1-oRm) X30 ~ ak~ '0oV-AC'- 1~ 'Fir, 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: Address: ~2& Email/Phone # (op ' nal): i Signature: i C~ a Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you l i i pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: t a . Address: " ~ ~ , ~ ~ ~ a - Email/Phone # (optional): 411 Signature: c~ c Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. r Name:- Address: Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? I 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. r~d Name: Address:- Email/Phone # (optional): f~'Gtr1L/I t,~ iIn4', l~ kl- Signature: } ~ 7 J Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? z. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over t others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you 4 pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name:- Address:- 1~ S Nis vii SI I~s~(~acy~~ o `f SZ() Email/Phone # (optional): C'~ C~-~~ ms`s . coxr~ Signature: 6"UV~L Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you III i pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name:- Address:- )00 A15 p 0z Email/Phone # (optional): f Signature: t ~ ccL - Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances ...which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? i I 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: L. S r(jGc O [ Q l~ Address: :Z7 G~/~ l G Otit)e I ZSd-~O Email/Phone # (optional): 0a,(s l<o~i~21''(~ C)JCo-~^ Signature: rl Y Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners =he proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September S, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over III others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: 'e cj /tee , 14 Address: Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: L,_~-► Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners aghe proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you f pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. ~t 'SCE Name:-7 J.- Address: LRZ ~ N Ao Email/Phone # tv 0, l optional): ~ Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name. Address: Email/Phone # I C1 ail a (optional): q c ~ „ c ©k4 Signature: CQ~ Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. i. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adiacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: V" UGCx Lp1N-e- " Address: "l C(D f 1*r-'(6w-T`ea'-C - Email/Phone # (optional): wAAX Ar-Ct ~o n I1 /0" k ils4 W41Y 1 6-0 VVI Signature: I Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: 2-r- Address: L lk'C4 Email/Phone # (optional): v `~0 e t Signature: s ~ Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September S,2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? i. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project-despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you r pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name:- V- 0\oo NU-11~ Address:- Email/Phone # (optional): Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over i others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. s Name: Address: q(os iDi 1,kkgc -e~,f 1 I°~V cJ2- Email/Phone # (optional): ~V C:i 1 Signature: J ' u~~t( r 713 Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances... which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over r others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? s. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? I 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you i , pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to ar&,addressing our concerns. Name: ? Address: CJ' Email/Phone # (optional): Signatu III Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty o outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? 2. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over I others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. Name: r` Address: s-C ~L~ziS 1~G% Email/Phone # (optional): r Signature: Dear City Council members, We are the homeowners along the proposed pipe project route, and have questions and concerns we would like addressed prior to the vote on September 5, 2019. 1. Where are the engineering and structural studies done that assess any potential impact to the homes along the proposed route? The Department of Public Works only provided the Adkins Engineering & Surveying Technical Memorandum. In the introduction of the report, they state: Only a cursory review was performed, therefore only a relatively low certainty of outcome should be expected from this review. The potential for both short term and long term impacts to adjacent properties exists from construction impacts and potential canal failure. Properties along the canal will experience temporary disturbances which include increased construction vehicle activity, equipment and laborers. Properties will experience increased noise, traffic delays, dust and interruptions in utilities. If this report as it states is only cursory, where is the report that studies the actual and real impact on property owners? i. Is there a budget with funds set aside to compensate property owners for the loss of driveways, landscaping and trees? If utilities are disrupted, are there funds to put property owners up in comparable residences until utilities are restored? Are there funds set aside to compensate property owners for the disruption to their lives? For the dust, noise, stress, loss of privacy? If our homes are damaged by the construction, how much funding is set aside to repair homes or in extreme cases buy the properties back if they are structurally damaged due to this project? 3. Have you conducted any assessments as to property values? The canal is a water feature on my property (and one reason I chose this home over others), and if covered up and replaced by a dirt road it would lower my property value. Are you conducting property value assessments for the affected homeowners to determine if they would lose value? Do you have funds set aside to compensate those property owners whose homes are devalued due to the project? 4. How is this project being funded? Will Ashland residents be paying for this with our tax dollars? Will our utility bills go up to fund this project? Why spend 4-12 million dollars on a pipe, when the canal can be repaired for $843,310 in much less time and without all the liability to home owners? 5. Why have property owners along the project route not been notified in writing of this project? I purchased my property in March 2019, and the project was not disclosed to me. I found out about it by chance, and when I contacted the realtors involved in the sale, they stated they did not know about this pipe project... despite the fact it impacts 86 homes in Ashland? Why has this project not been widely publicized, as it affects not only property owners but all residents who enjoy walking along the canal? 6. The recent Talent-Ashland-Phoenix (TAP) water project was completed with a price tag of $14 million dollars, why is this option not being utilized? Why spend another $4-12 million dollars piping the canal when we have already spent 14 million on a project that delivers clean drinking water to Ashland? 7. The stated reasons for the need to pipe the canal are water loss/leakage and E.coli contamination, yet repairing the neglected concrete liner in the 7,160 feet of open canal would solve the water loss/leakage issue as well as the E.coli issue completely. E.coli exists at the source, Lake Hyatt, and along the 30 miles of open canal before it reaches Ashland. Hence E.coli would simply continue to be transported inside the pipe. A new liner with a curb would prevent leakage and also reduce E.coli in the canal. Why would you pursue the pipe option when a much less expensive, less invasive option exists? Why destroy Ashland residents properties, raise taxes and utility bills, remove a beautiful and widely enjoyed water feature and cause tree I loss and environmental damage when you can repair the canal for a fraction of the cost? We encourage you to vote no on the pipe project and instead repair and keep the canal. Our names, addresses and signatures are below, and we thank you in advance for responding to and addressing our concerns. I ke,,J /4-, Name: t~ ay Address: G.:.,: ~a ~4 Email/Phone # (optional): w l r Ca~- Signature: