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�A .. . . • <br /> � <br /> C ITY of ORONO <br /> Post Oftice Box 66•Crystal Bay,Minnesota 55323•Municipal Officee <br /> • <br /> � - � � On the North Shore of Lake Minnetonka <br /> September 27, 1990 <br /> C1air Rood <br /> 2215 Kenwood way <br /> Wayzata, Mn 55391 <br /> RE: Proposed Cleanup/Tree Removal./Grading <br /> Dear Mr. Rood: <br /> The general cl.eanup work which you have commenced in various <br /> areas of your property can for the most �art be handled via a <br /> staff-issued 1.and alteration permit. Our site inspections on <br /> September 17th and September 24th verified that your property <br /> indeed has been used as a neighborhood dum�,ing ground for <br /> decades. The concrete debris, railroad ties, cans, bottl.es, and <br /> old tires, all constitute debris that is not considered cl.ean <br /> fil.]. and by today's standards woul.d not be a].Iowed to be dumped <br /> anywhere except a sanitary landfill.. <br /> While we wish to alXow you to proceed with the cxeanup, the fact <br /> that the areas of concern are very near a City-designated <br /> wetland, requires that we proceed with caution. Before we can <br /> issue a I.and alteration permit for you to continue, you must have <br /> the boundaries of the wetXand defined and staked by a surveyor. <br /> Orono's wetland protection ordinances do not allow any fill.ing, <br /> grading, dredging, exca�ation, hardcover or structures, within <br /> wetXands or within 26' of the boundary of wetl.ands (Municipal <br /> Code Section 10.55, Subdivision 8). <br /> �ve believe that the ordinary high water mark el.evation of this <br /> wetland, which appears to be an enclosed basin, is controZ led by <br /> a culvert that extends northward underneath the railroad tracks. <br /> This cu].vert may be blocked by debris near its inlet, which may <br /> be on your property but which also may be on rail.road right-of- <br /> way. We have recently determined that this cul.vert runs under <br /> the house at 3329 Crystal Bay Road and outlets at the J.akeshore. <br /> Much of the debris appears to be on railroad right-of-way or on <br /> other properties which County records indicate are not under your <br /> ownership. Whiie we wholeheartedly support your efforts to cl.ean <br /> up the property, we cannot grant you permission to clean up other <br /> peop].e's property without their approval. I woul.d al.so note that <br /> the wetl.ands boundary survey by Gronberg in 1988 suggests that in <br /> order to stay out of the wetlands area during debris removal on <br /> BUILDING&ZONING-473-7357 • ADMINISTRATION&FINANCE-473-7358 • PUBLIC WORKS-473-7359 <br /> ASSFSSINC FAX-473-0510 <br /> i <br /> I <br />