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i <br />i <br />I <br />1 <br />I <br />I <br />] <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />1 <br />I <br />I <br />f <br />i <br />I <br />I <br />\ <br />presently in use. Prevailing practice by the regulatory agencies has been to determine the <br />presence of hydric soils and hydrophytic vegetation. If one or both of those indicators are present, <br />the presence of suitable hydrology is assumed. The presumption is that the hydrology characteristic <br />is more difficult to determine by casual visual observation and therefore is not used routinely. <br />The project site was searched for areas satisfying the 3 indicator characteristics of wetlands. Areas <br />possessing those characteristics were more closely e.xamined to determine the appro.ximate edge of <br />the Jurisdictional wetland. <br />Field Procedures <br />Wetland classification follows the methods described in Cowardin et. al. (Cowardin. L.M.. V. <br />Caner, F.C. Golei. and E.T. LaRoe. 1979. Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats <br />of the United States. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Office of Biological Services. Washington <br />D C. Publ. No. FWS/OBS-79/31. 107 pp.) and as used in the National Wetland Inventory being <br />completed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. <br />The site was examined on August 17. 18. 19 and 20. 1993 for areas meeting wetland criteria in <br />accordance with the Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands <br />(Federal Interagency Coimnittee for Wetland Delineation. 1989. Federal Manual for Identifying <br />and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. U.S. Environmental <br />Protection Agency. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service. <br />Washington. D.C. Cooperative technical publication. 76 pp. plus appendices.) and the Corps of <br />Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual (Technical Rept. Y-87-1. January. 1987). Procedurally. <br />both methods are generally similar e,xcept that the Corps mt :hod requites that soil inundation or <br />saturation occur within the root zone (generally within 12 inches of the surface) during the <br />growing season and that all 3 wetland parameters be present. In the i989 Manual, if only one of <br />the characteristics is present, the presence of the other 2 is inferred. <br />Wetl'nd edges were delineated ... accordance with the foregoing procedures. The edge of each <br />wetland was marked with 4-foot lath sequentially numbered and flagged with orange wetland <br />boundary" flagging tape. <br />I