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a. <br />b. <br />c. <br />d. <br />e. <br />f. <br />The proposal involves expansion of the 5th and 18th tees and creation of <br />ponds in the adjacent lowlands. Both projects are part of the Lakevievv Golf <br />master plan which the City first reviewed in 1995. <br />The adjacency of the tee expansion and pond excavation results in an efficient <br />land alteration process; materials from creation of the ponds will be used to <br />create the tee boxes, resulting in a balancing of excavation work on the site <br />and little (if any) importation/exportation of fill. <br />The areas proposed for excavation to create new ponds are not Orono <br />designated wetlands and do not appear on the National Wetland Inventory. <br />The pond near the 5th tee expansion will be approximately 6' deep at the <br />center, and somewhat triangular in shape, being approximately 100' in <br />diameter and approximately 6,000 s.f. or 0.15 acre in area. This project <br />involves the movement of approximately 1,000 cubic yards of material. <br />The 18th hole improvements involve the excavation of a pond approximately <br />60' wide and 200' in length or 12,000 s.f. in area, expansion of the 18th hole <br />tee boxes, and general filling in a low area near those tee boxes and adjacent <br />to the 9 acre pond in the east central portion of the course. The 9 acre pond <br />is listed in the City protected wetland inventory as a Type 5 wetland, and is <br />primarily open water. While no filling of the 9 acre pond is proposed, the <br />proposed grading will be within the 26' wetland setback, hence technically <br />a variance is required. This portion of the course has been maintained in <br />mowed grass, and the proposed filling will have no significant added impact <br />on the quality or quantity of runoff to the 9 acre pond. <br />Neither proposed pond excavation involves impacts to existing wetlands. The <br />creation of ponds at these strategic locations on the course will potentially be <br />of benefit to the watershed in general by creating more runoff storage, <br />allowing sediments and nutrients to settle or assimilate prior to runoff <br />discharging to dovsnstream areas in the watershed. <br />Page 2 of 6