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Laura Oakden <br /> From: Maria Marks <mcmmarks@gmail.com> <br /> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 3:46 Pl\,1 <br /> To: Laura Oakden <br /> Subject: Re: Wetlands Excavation permit request <br /> Hello Laura, <br /> Should we assume the answer to be "No" for the additional unanswered questions of my prior e-mail? <br /> 1. re: MCWD comment period ending 2/14. ?No notification? and/or No comment from City? <br /> 2. ?No reports available from the City Engineer that has "preliminarily reviewed and provided comments for <br /> the project as it pertains to drainage?" <br /> follow-up question: Who is to conduct the full review as required before issuing Grading and Land Alteration <br /> Permit? Will there be reconciliation of the inconsistency as to where spoils will be placed? (per City document <br /> dated 2/18, berm creation east side of property versus east and southwest corner of wetlands?). This seems <br /> impactful given the stream that appears to run from this area to the adjacent Wetlands. MCWD has not <br /> produced any documents or assessment on these features. One might this this would be of interest to the <br /> MCWD? <br /> 3. ?No documents or communications indicating assessments/calculations/field study to assess questions of <br /> water fill and maintenance levels and the impact to surrounding and adjacent Wetlands? <br /> follow-up question: If the agencies thought responsible for actively assessing impacts to ecology and hydrology <br /> have not been required to submit or have not offered this type of data, would the City pursue such information <br /> before making permitting decisions? (If the City has documents and/or communications that address the <br /> specifics of such impact please forward as these have not been made available previously.) <br /> ?No City interest in assessing likelihood of increased population of mosquito and/or waterfowl as potential <br /> vectors of disease and best practice to proactively minimize impact? <br /> (Representatives of applicant have misrepresented pertinent information to this discussion in their reactionary <br /> "consultation" with MMCD on multiple occasions when this concern had been raised by community members <br /> previously. Thus any reported response to date would likely be invalid.) Useful determinations and advisement <br /> would be dependent upon actual engagement and transparency with an agency such as MMCD once final <br /> design objectively meets Construction Guidelines. <br /> follow-up question: Our understanding is that DNR has no authority over this Wetland. How,then, is their <br /> general comment (absent "delving into the details" relevant to the guideline consideration)the basis for <br /> approval of the proposed plan? If they lack authority in this case and location, how then would they have <br /> oversight of artificial introductions into the Wetlands such as "stockpiling of fish" deemed in the City <br /> communication packet as under domain of the DNR?? <br /> Thank you, <br /> Maria&Jamin Marks <br /> 1 <br />