Ada officials figure that 54 million gallons of water fell inside the 2-mile square village limits on Tuesday. In a 30-minute period Ada experienced 1-½ inches of rain.

David Retterer, Ada mayor, reported that figure at Wednesday’s Community Improvement Corp. (CIC) meeting.

“A lot of people are calling the village about the rain. The projects we’ve handed in the past 20 years have enabled us to put in a lot of drainage,” he said, adding that without those project there would be lots of water with no where to go.

“Now we can get rid of water and we believe we are doing it responsibly,” he added.

That the village has received some complaints that the village and ONU are dumping water into area townships is “clearly not the issue,” he said.

The mayor also said, “We have seen water on Lincoln, Lima and Hays for a short period of time. Those streets are water retention areas. I’m pretty proud of what Ada has done and I can’t imagine what yesterday (Tuesday) would have been if we had not put these street projects into place.”