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2 SITE CHARACTERISTICS General Site Characteristics The site is currently composed of four adjacent parcels, three of which are zoned Rural, one zoned for PUD. There is one home on the site, a large wetland area, mowed fields, several small ponds, and a private ditch. The site is bounded by the Northpointe residential subdivision to the north, rural single- family homes to the south, highway 35E on the east, and agricultural land to the west. Soils SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database from Natural Resource Conservation Service) soils data indicates the presence of the following soil types: The wetland area soil is Rifle mucky peat that is hydrologic soil type A/D, very poorly drained, with a water table varying between a foot below to a foot above ground level. For dual class soil types, the first letter applies to the drained condition, the second to the undrained condition. In this case, these soils have a low runoff potential when drained, and a high runoff potential when poorly drained. The rest of the site is comprised of Hayden fine sandy loam, Nessel fine sandy loam, Kingsley fine sandy loam, and Braham loamy fine sand which are moderately well drained to well drained soils that are in hydrologic soil type B. These soil types have a moderately low runoff potential and unimpeded water transmission through soil. Land Cover Pre-settlement land cover (Marschner) was oak openings and barrens, aspen-oak land, and wet prairie. Current land cover is: wet meadow, cropland, oak woodland, spruce/fir trees, floodplain forest, ponds, seasonally flooded altered/non-native dominated emergent vegetation, medium-tall grass altered/non-native dominated grassland, and altered/non-native deciduous forest. Rare, Unique or Significant Resources No rare, unique, or significant resources have been identified at this time, but if any wetland impacts are proposed, a survey for these resources should be performed. Most of the site appears to have been used for agriculture, so disturbance would be expected to have altered any native plant communities on the site. There are opportunities for wetland restoration associated with this project.