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PrH IGEL LAW OFFICE TO: MIK1-; CAI-mON.CriY 0|- ORONO FROM: R.\(:IIIU.IC iI-]<^^iQ SUBJECT: RI;QL'1>"1 IOR \ ARIANCI- IOR Vti;il_\NO RTiSTOR-M ION;CUIJ.UM PROPliRlY DATE: 1/21/3004 Cullum Property Address: 785 Femdale Road North, Wayzata Legal Description:N Va of the NE Vi of Section 36, Township 118 North, Range 23 VC’est, Orono, Minnesota Site IdendGcadon:Tract B, Registered Land Sur\’ey No. 1031, Hennepin County, Minnesota As described in the Wetland Delineation Report, dated November 1,2002, the wetland consists of a Type 5 (PUBGx) pond in the western half of the property, surrounded by mowed Kentucky bluegrass lawn in all direcdons except to the north and southwest, which is dominated by common buckthorn and green ash trees. Based on a re^■iew of aerial photographs, the wetland appears to have been e.\cavated between 1953 and 1964, an assessment that was supported by observ'adons of the wetland during the December 14, 2001 and June 6,2002 site s*isits by Kjolhaug Emironmental Services Company, Inc. During these visits, the wetland was obser\*ed to consist of an open-water pon^ which had very little emergent vegetadon around the edges, and the uplands were mowed to the water’s edge. Water depths in the pond were assumed to be 1 to 2 feet. As shown on the attached grading plan, the applicant proposes to construct a small berm in the wetland along the western property line in order to provide substrate for the establishment of emergent herbaceous and woody wetland vegetadon. A break in the berm will maintain the existing drainage of the wetland toward the southwest in order to prevent changes to the pond’s water level. The berm was determined to be necessary because the water depths along the western propert)* line were too deep to allow woody vegetadon to become established. The proposed project would reestablish vegetadon around pordons of the wetland, and partially restore vegetadon to the inner pordons of the basin. TTie top elevadon of the berm will be no more than 1.0 foot abox’e the normal water level of die wetland; therefore, the project will result in no loss of wetland area. Althou^ the project will pardauy restore the excavated wetland, the placement of 2,135 square feet (sf) of M material for the construedon of the berm will be midgated through the creadon of 2,135 sf of new wedand adjacent to die e.xisdng wetland, and the establishment of 11,787 sf of nadve. O I