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SVOBODA ECOLOGICAL RESOURCES <br />Providing the Sharper Edge in Natural Resources & Environmental Consulting <br />September 3. 20D4 <br />Enc Voystrom <br />20840 Channel Dnvc <br />Orono.MN 55331 <br />RE: SER Project Name: 2816 Casco Point Road <br />SER Project No: 2004-104-03 <br />Project Location: A portion of the SE '/i of the NW ‘4 of Section 20. T 117N. R 23 W. <br />City of Orono. Hennepin County, Minnesota <br />Project Description: Wetland Classification. Identification, Delineation and Staking <br />Services <br />Dear Mr. Vogstrom, <br />As requested. Svoboda Ecological Resources (SER) persorjtel visited the above referenced <br />property on August 31.2004, to examine the site for the presence of areas meeting wetland <br />criteria. Criteria for determining jurisdictional wetlands are as described m the 19S7 U S. Army <br />Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual (1987 Manual) as required by the Minnesota <br />Welland Conservation Act. <br />The project site is a small irregularly shaped one-acre lot separated by a small flooded inlet <br />extending in a northerly direction through the center of the property from Caiman Bay in Lake <br />Minnetonka. The lot is sparsely wooded on the western side of the property but becomes denser <br />along the periphery of the flooded inlet. The property is relatively flat closest to the basin but has <br />an approximate 15 percent incline on the w estern side of the property which extends further w est. <br />The incline begins to level off after an approximate 12-foot increase in elevation. An abandoned <br />single family home exists at the top of the hill on the w estern most portion of the property. The <br />project site is bordered by Casco Point Road on the w estem end, private properties on its northern <br />and southern sides containing singlc-tWrily homes and Carman Bay on its cast-southeastern side. <br />The property lies writhin the SE •/* of the NW ‘/. of Section 20, Township 117N, Range 23W, City <br />of Orono, Hcimepin County, Minnesota (F'gurc I). <br />METHODS <br />National Wetland Invcnlory (NWi) maps, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNK) <br />Public Waters maps. Soil Sur\ey of Hennepin County^ and aerial photographs were reviewed prior <br />2477 Shadywood Road • ExceUior, MN 55331 <br />(952) 471-1100 (0»e») • (952)471-0007 (Fax) <br />1