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358 7 The report shows that the entire Vine Brook drainsge area comprises about 980 acres , of which 311 acres must be drained to be usable . In the opinion of the Planning Board , the presence of this large area almost in the center of the town constitutes in its present condition a standing threat to the present andprospective valuations throughout the center of the town . It is too much. to expect that this will remain permanently without building . Unless it is properly drained , it and its bordering lands cannot go to a type of development that will be to the best interests of the Town . Left in its present condition , it wi l l invite a type of development that will be prejudicial and a menace to the Town , resulting in depreciation of present valuable property . It is clear from the report of Metcalf & Eddy that it would be est for the Tovm if the entire project could be undertaken as a single niece of work . The cost of doing it all at once would be substantially less than otherwise ; the task of assessing betterments wol - ld. be much simplified , and the entire cost could be recovered by betterments more easily than would be possible if the work is undertaken in sections . It is believed , however , that the magnitude of the project is such that notwithstanding the economies and advantages to he derived from undertaking it all at once , it is probably better to trIke it up in sections . Because Vine Brook is the only means for draining the bus i rye s s center of the town and because it has already reached its capacity and in its present condition is likely soon to causd flooding from the surface water received from the center alone , it thus cons titins P present threat to existing valuations , as well as -the key to increasedvaluations in the business center and else - where throughout the drained area , and it would seem to be a Town project to deepen and increase the capacity of the trunk line portion of Vine Brook from Vine Brook Roadto below Sheridan Street , the cost to be borne by the Town as n. whole , independently of betterments and the larger area back of Vine Brook Road . This trunk ' line section of the brook kg) aged %n e1145.n een a se oer`f Jim osr hb vast a 'a to the north and south . The Town, having been responsible for maintaining this level , wouldseem to be shouldered with the responsibility of removing it . The indirect benefits from increasedvaluations will undoubtedly bring back to the Town more than the cost of the deepening . To undertake to cover this by any scheme of betterments would be so complex as to be probably impracticable . The datafor doing this work is already in the report of Metcalf & Eddy . It is believed to be well within the range of possibility that the houses that wouldbe built within the drained area within a period of tan years would furnish , together with the land that would be drained , an annual tax return of 25% or more of the entire cost of construction of this section . It is believed by the Planning Board that this section must be built in any event and wholly irrespective of the action of the Town with respect to the larger areas to the south and north . It is hoped that the Town will approve and adopt the entire plan proposed by Metcalf & Eddy and. that ,