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5- i ^ I f arv "I t 1taRQNC^ CITYof ORONO Post Office Box 66*Crystai Bay, Minnesota 55323• Munidpai OfSeta On the North Shore of Lake Minnetonka September 27, 1990 Clair Rood 2215 Kenwood Way Wayzata, Mn 55391 RE: Proposed Cieanup/Tree Ramoval/Grading Dear Mr. Rood: The general cleanup work which you have commenced in various areas of your property can for the most part be handled via a staff-issued land alteration permit. Our site inspections on September 17th and September 24th verified that your property indeed has been used as a neighborhood dumping ground for decades. The concrete deb'.is, railroad ties, cans, bottles, and old tires, all constitute debris that is not considered clean fiJ.l and by today's standards would not be allowed to be dumped anywhere except a sanitary landfill. While we wish to allow you to proceed with the cleanup, the fact that the areas of concern are very near a City-designated wetland, requires that we proceed with caution. Before we can issue a land alteration permit for you to continue, you must have the boundaries of the wetland defined and staked by a surveyor. Orono's wetland protection ordinances do not allow any filling, grading, dredging, excavation, hardcover or structures, within wetlands or within 26' of the boundary of wetlands (Municipal Code Section 10.55, Subdivision 8). We believe that the ordinary high water mark elevation of this wetland, which appears to be an enclosed basin, is controlled by a culvert that extends northward underneath the railroad tracks. This culvert may be blocked by debris near its inlet, which may be on your property but which also may be on railroad right-of- way. We have recently determined that this culvert runs under the house at 3329 Crystal Bay Read and outlets at the lakeshore. Much of the debris appears to be on railroad right-of-way or on other properties which County records indicate are not under your ownership. While we wholeheartedly support your efforts to clean up the property, we cannot grant you permission to clean up other people's property without their approval. I would also note that the wetlands boundary survey by Gronberg in 1988 suggests that in order to stay out of the wetlands area during debris removal on NilLOING A ZONING - 473.73S7 ASSESSING ADMlNISniATION A FINA.sa; • 473-73SS FAX-47M510 PUBLIC WORKS - 473.7359