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� On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Mike Gaffron <MGaffron(c�ci.orono.mn.us> wrote: Rachaelle— I sent this to you last Friday—don't know why you didn't get it. Here it is again. Mike Michael P. Gaffron Assistant City Administrator/Long Term Strategy City of Orono (Street Address) 2750 Kelley Parkway (Mailing Address) P.O. Box 66, Crvstal Bay , MN 55323 Phone: (952) 249-4600 Fax: (952) 249-4616 From: Mike Gaffron Sent: Friday, October O5, 2012 10:18 AM To: 'rachaelle48(a�hotmail.com' Cc: Melanie Curtis; Jessica Loftus Subject: Re: Buffer - 420 Deborah Drive /Pool Permit Rachaelle - Mark Perry has discussed the issue of wetland classification with Catherine Bach at the Watershed District (MCWD). Here is my analysis of the situation: Your wetland is currently classified as a Preserve management category, which requires a 50- foot buffer. Because your proposed construction activity meets all the Code criteria that triggers establishment of a buffer, the 50-foot buffer is required to be established. Those criteria are: 1) the area of the pool construction drains toward the wetland; 2)the amount of grading activity associated with the pool exceeds 50 cubic yards (it's actually more than 100 cubic yards); and 3) the pool results in a net increase in the square footage of impervious surface that drains toward the wetland. Unfortunately there is no provision in the Code that would negate any of these factors just because the pool is 350 feet from the wetland. Your wetland delineator, Wayne Jacobsen, staked out the edge of the wetland approximately 16 feet south of the rock wall. The City's consultant wetland expert, Mark Perry of Bolton & Menk, was on the site and he agrees with Wayne's staked location of the wetland boundary. We discussed the possibility that the current classification of the wetland as a Preserve category might be incorrect. The only way to get it changed to some lower category would be to perform a"MnRAM Assessment" which must be performed by a wetland expert. Catherine Bach indicated MCWD will not perform the MnRAM assessment, but would review an assessment performed by someone else. You would have to have your wetland delineator do the MnRAM assessment. Your goal in having that MnRAM assessment completed would be to have the wetland reclassified to a lesser management category than Preserve, such as Manage 1, Manage 2, or 2