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upgrades as well as collection system controls. Mr. Fahey then referenced the presentation which listed projects having checks by them, signifying the completion of the projects (the presentation can be found in the City Clerk's Office). Mr. Fahey continued, We are one (1)project completion away from being done with Phase One (1). Phase Two (2) includes the construction of seven(7) large storage tanks. Financially,the large projects represent eighty to eighty-five percent(80%-85%) of the budget. We are talking very serious money at this stage. The enormity of Phase One (1) is exemplified in the many lists provided in the presentation. They have all been a large community effort. There were fifty-eight (58)major CSO (Combined Sewer Overflow) collection systems projects totaling roughly$114 million. Phase One (1)projects totaled $34 million which brings us to $148 million already spent. The success is exemplified by the graph in the presentation. The graph shows the amount of annual overflow into the river, and the significant reduction of overflow since starting the project. Four-hundred and thirty-one (43 1) million gallons of overflow happened in 2016. Eight (8) years before that there were two (2)billion gallons of overflow in the river. The CSO real- time monitoring system implemented in 2008 significantly helped immediately the following year. Real-time control is how we started to divert overflow to different areas. The CSO is divided into basins. There may be one (1)basin that is full and another that still has capacity but until we had real-time control, there was no way to divert the overflow into basins that have capacity. There are two (2) data sets we have collected. The first data set is from 2004-2006 and the second is from 2014-2016. The E. Coli levels for the City are significantly lower. There's an average reduction of twenty-eight percent (28%) on the median E. Coli level at each monitoring point. There are four (4) main monitoring points. The water quality is going in the right direction. What we are meant to do next is change from the tactics that we've had so far in relation to the successes of Smart Sewer Networks and commence this large project. The plan as it stands is expensive and doesn't include any Smart Technology. Smart Technology is what has got us to where we are today with regard to our successes. The plan doesn't have any green- infrastructure either and not only does it benefit us in terms of the efficiency, but it will also help beautify parts of the City. This all goes full-circle with the biology and the aquatic life in the river. We do a fish survey in cooperation with the City of Elkhart by going out and sampling the aquatic life in the river. For the last twenty-seven (27) months, we realized that Phase Two (2) didn't include the same practices that have provided the previous successes. The way the project was structured allowed us to take a little bit of time, review where we were going, recalibrate the direction, and the results of that are being presented today. The Long Term Control Plan has many private and local companies that help through cooperation. The main finding after we commenced the work was the extent of the flaws with the current plan. The first thing we did was understand how the proposed expenditure of the $509 million became $861 million, based on having spent $148 million with$713 million to go. We have ten(10) years of data due to Smart Sewers and that data has been key to the success and savings. Mr. Fahey went through the slides of the presentation highlighting projects that have already been accomplished. 'Mr. Fahey then went on, We have considered every option to make the plan as lean and as valuable as possible. The Down-Spout Disconnection Program and the Basement Value Program were two (2) side projects that evolved from this, both of which were successful. Sewer systems can overflow into the river, but they can also go into somebody's basement. This plan is a holistic approach to solving that problem. The disconnection is very important. The Wastewater 4