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,�r , <br /> The investigation area is located in a wooded area within a residential landscape. The investigation area <br /> is located to the south and east of Heritage Lane, north of Shoreline Drive (CSAH 15) and east of South <br /> Brown Road (CSAH 146). The investigation area is also surrounded by moderately spaced single-family <br /> homes and wooded areas near Lake Minnetonka. <br /> Definitions + Methodology <br /> This investigation was performed in accordance with the US Army Corps of Engineers 1987 Wetland <br /> Delineation Manual, the 2010 Midwest Regional Supplement, and all applicable supporting documents <br /> for areas meeting wetland criteria for a routine wetland delineation in accordance to the Minnesota <br /> Wetland Conservation Act and the US Army Corps of Engineers Section 404 Program. The following <br /> definitions, diagnostic environmental characteristics, and the methodology used is based on the <br /> mandatory technical criteria for the identification and delineation of wetlands. <br /> As defined in 33 CFR Part 328, Section 3,the term wetlands is defined as: Those areas that are inundated <br /> or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that <br /> under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated <br /> soil conditions. The frequency and duration of saturation may vary by geographical region, and is largely <br /> dependent upon climatic conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar <br /> areas. <br /> Wetlands have the following general diagnostic environmental characteristics: <br /> Hydrophytic Vegetation <br /> The wetland vegetation criterion is satisfied when the prevalent vegetation consists of plant species <br /> adapted to inundation or substrates periodically deficient in oxygen as a result of prolonged <br /> saturation. Specifically,this includes plant communities that under normal circumstances have more <br /> than 50% of the composition of the dominant species from all strata ranked with an indicator status <br /> as obligate wetland (OBL), facultative wetland (FACW), and/or facultative (FAC) species. <br /> The indicator status for individual plants as defined by the updated 2016 Minnesota National Wetland <br /> Plant List are identified and described in the following table: <br /> 1080 & 1090 Heritage Lane Page 2 <br />