The comments were made during a lengthy discussion Tuesday night with a property owner who requested the city's help in mitigating stormwater runoff in his lake. Frank Helm, 901 Ozark Street, told alderman that water runoff had caused siltation in a three-acre lake on his property as well as erosion of the spillway and the lake's bank. Helm has raised the issue before and city officials have toured his property and inspected the damage. Helm said the city allowed a storm water pipe to be placed on his property. "I can't get from one side of my property to the other because of the erosion. It's a direct result from the storm water coming off Ozark," Helm said. Christopher Graville, Marthasville city attorney, told Helm that stormwater runoff is one of the city's biggest problems but that the city lacks the funds to address all of the problem areas. He said that the city is working on an updated and revised city code book that could include a "master list" of all the affected properties. He said that the city could then develop a plan to mitigate the problems. "So I'm supposed to wait and watch my property erode away?" Helm asked at one point. "Frankly, from what I've seen the city is not responsible for all of the siltation," Graville said. "When these subdivisions were built they contributed to the problem. You've been reasonable and I think the city has been as well. Are we going to take full responsibility for it? Probably not. I think we need to put a process in place to develop a master list of all of the sites that need to be evaluated. I don't think there is going to be an immediate solution" "I know the city has some liability in this but a lot of the responsibility has to be on the developers (who built the subdivision). I don't think you can point the finger just at us," Marthasville Mayor Dale Verges said. "I know you are not satisfied with our response but you're not the only property owner that has problems with stormwater runoff." Graville said he and city officials have been working on codifying and updating city ordinances for almost a year. He said a revised city code book could be approved by the board in July. "Updating the code book is the number one priority of the mayor and the alderman," Graville said Wednesday. "It will be a register of all 270 ordinances the city has passed including a model traffic code. It will be updated and codified with Missouri law. It won't include planning and zoning or property maintenance and building codes. But it would represent the first step toward those goals." "We do understand your concerns and we're sympathetic to your situation. We're not going to turn our backs on you either but you're going to have to be patient," Verges told Helm. Graville said he would inspect Helm's property again before next meeting to determine the extent of the erosion problem.