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r <br />A. <br />B. <br />C. <br />D. <br />E. <br />The applicants propose to fill 1.2 acres of wetlands under the concurrent <br />jurisdiction of City of Orono, the DNR, and the Minnehaha Creek <br />Watershed District as the City's designated local unit of government under <br />the Wetland Conservation Act. An additional 1.1 acres of wetland subject <br />to City of Orono and MCWD/WCA protection but not under DNR <br />authority, will also be filled. <br />The majority of the wetland impacts are a result of filling the long narrow <br />wetlands occurring in the ditch area between the existing County Road 15 <br />roadway and the railroad tracks to the north. In addition, there will be <br />minor impacts to the larger wetland located at 1410 Shoreline Drive, and <br />minor impacts to the wetlands just west of the West Femdale Road entrance <br />at 1195/1205/1225 Shoreline Drive. <br />The impacted area of the three non-lineal wetlands which will experience <br />some filling is small compared to the total area of those wetlands. Wetland <br />No. 1 (as designated in the applicants' plans) at 1410 Shoreline Drive is <br />10.1 acres in area, of which 0.12 acres will be impacted. The area of <br />Wetland No. 7 at 1225 Shoreline Drive is approximately 0.8 acres of which <br />approximately 0.02 acre will be impacted. Wetland No. 8 is approximately <br />1.3 acres of which 0.05 acres will be impacted. A much larger percentage <br />of the linear wetlands between the roadway and railroad tracks will be <br />impacted, experiencing significant filling which will leave those wetlands <br />narrower and likely appearing more like road ditches than wetlands. <br />Wetland replacement for the 1.2 acres of impacted DNR wetlands will be <br />via the creation of 1.3 acres of new wetland in the Painter Creek watershed <br />adjacent to County Road 6 in the City of Independence. The 1.1 acres of <br />impacted WCA protected wetlands will be mitigated per BWSR and <br />MCWD requirements at a site in Excelsior at some future time, and the <br />applicant is required by MCWD to pay $38,626.00 towards that regional <br />storm water ponding facility. <br />The project results in 1.2 acre feet of flood plain storage loss, which will <br />be mitigated on a one-to-one basis by removing the roadbed of the <br />Page 2 of 7.