GREEN: Citywide storm water problems flooded City Council on Tuesday as residents voiced their discontent with what they termed a lack of noticeable action to resolve water woes, including raw sewage.For 90 minutes, the council heard residents’ pleas, in civil tones, for assistance with storm water that has flooded some homes as many as six times in 11 years, costing residents thousands of dollars to repair damage and replace furnishings.Many items were irreplaceable, including business records and a destroyed wedding album, speakers said.In noting some acute water-related situations throughout the city, Mayor Dick Norton told Service Director Randy Monteith and City Engineer Paul Pickett to provide plans for relief and also to prepare cost analyses.“I’d like to identify some near-term solutions and seek to find funding solutions,” Norton told the audience. Council President Joel Reed urged the administration to find three or four firms that could investigate current problems and detail how to deal with future developments.He also suggested reducing by about half the Parks and Recreation Department’s capital budget of 7 percent of income tax collections and use those funds for storm water relief and infrastructure.Rebecca Morse, of Mars Road, said drains couldn’t take the water that raged through her and her neighbors’ properties from devastating rains this spring. She said the water was coming across East Caston Road, adding, “This time we really got hit hard.”She said she received $3,000 in restitution but probably will have to pay a contractor $10,000 for repairs.Dana Stahl, of Jupiter Road, flooded three times in 11 years, blamed a retention pond and spillway in the Kings Ridge allotment for water coming across East Caston. She urged the council to declare the area a flood plain “so we can get some cheap flood insurance.”Pickett said the problem in many areas is probably the result of error in design of the entire storm-water system.Ward 2 Councilman Dave France suggested changing city regulations for new subdivisions to be more strict about the discharge of water affecting those downstream.Monteith said the Service Department has been studying the problem and documenting storm-water issues. He and Pickett will offer new projects to deal with these problems in the upcoming capital budget review.“This is a community problem,” High Tower resident Ken Knodel said. “It’s now time for the city to address our needs. We want to protect our assets.”He urged an immediate review of the residents’ requests, approval of funds to correct problems and addressing maintenance problems immediately. He also suggested holding construction bonds longer, possibly for five years after a development is completed.“I’ve had enough,” Lorraine Prewitt, of Melanie Drive, said. She said the city has been told repeatedly about flooding issues, “and I want restitution” for damage her property has sustained.She spoke of tens of thousands of dollars in damage, including destruction of her wedding album. She said she can’t use the lower level of her home because it gets ruined time and time again.Spade Road resident Tom Stiles said he has been flooded 11 times in the past six years, with flooding also causing him problems with raw sewage.Another resident of Spade Road, Dana Beezley-Smith, said she has been flooded 13 times in six years. Neighbor Rick Lambes said the flooding has been more intense since a neighboring development, Mayfair East, was created. Beezley-Smith questioned why a pond that the Mayfair East Homeowners Association owns was allowed to be built, saying it enhances the problem.“The sound of the flooding is frightening,” she said, “but I’m more concerned that we are going to lose a child” to flooding.