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SVOBODA ECOLOGICAL RESOURCES <br />Providing the Sharper Edge in Satural Resources & Environmental Consulting <br />Scplembcf 3. 2004 <br />Ehc Vo^strom <br />20840 Channel Dnvc <br />Orono. MN 55331 <br />SER Project Name: 2316 Casco Point Road <br />SER Project No: 2004-104-03 <br />Project Location: A portion of the SE '/. of the NW % of Section 20. T IPN. R 23W. <br />City of Orono. Hennepin County, Minnesota <br />Project Description: Wetland Classification. Identification. Delineation and Slaking <br />Services <br />Dear .Mr. Vogstrom, <br />As requested. Svoboda Ecological Resources (SER) personnel visited the above referenced <br />property on August 31,2004, to examine the site for the presence of ajeas meeting wetland <br />critena. Cnteria for determining jurisdictional wetlands are as described in the I9S7 U S. Army <br />Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual (1987 Manual) as required by the Minnesota <br />Wetland Conservation Act. ’ * ' * <br />The project site is a small irregularly shaped one-acre lot separated by a small flooded inlet <br />e.xtcnding in a northerly direction through the center of the property from Cannan 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 funher w est <br />The incline begins to level off after an approximate 12-fool increase in elevation. An abandoned <br />single family home exists at the top of the hill on the western most portion of the property. The <br />project site is bordered by Casco Point Road on the western end, private properties on its northern <br />and southern sides containing single-family homes and Carman Bay on its east-southeastern side. <br />The property lies within the SE V. of the NW Vi of Section 20, To^fnship 117N, Range 23 W, City <br />of Orono, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Figure 1). <br />METHODS <br />National Wetland Invenlory-(NWl) maps, Minnesota Department of Namral Resources (DNR) <br />Public Waters maps. Soil Survey of Hennepin County, arid aerial photographs were reviewed prior <br />2477 Shadywood Road • Exctlaior, MN 55331 <br />(952) 471-1100 (Ofrict) • (952)471-0007 (Fax)