GENOA – A lawsuit that has cost Genoa taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars ended with an agreement between the city and Genoa-Kingston School District 424 addressing flooding at the elementary school and surrounding houses.

After nearly a full year of negotiations, school district and city officials have agreed to work together to finish a detention pond. It will help prevent flooding that has occurred to homes on Hadsall Street and the corner of Hill Street and Sycamore Road, where the elementary school is located.

Under the agreement, the city and district will complete the final grading of the detention pond already in place, finish installing the restricter for the pond and regrade a swale along Route 23.