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C[1170F • Phone: (612) 784-3055 E` Fax: (612) 784-3462 "Quite Simply the Best" March 4 , 1996 • Dear Woodcrest Park Neighbor: The Mounds View Parks and Recreation Commission invites you to our next meeting,. Thursday, March 28 ,1996 at 7 : 00 p.m at City Hall. We wish to hear your ideas for Woodcrest Park. Let me share with you a few of the issues that must be taken into consideration with any improvement plans for Woodcrest Park. This information was obtained through a geotechnical study and soil borings performed at Woodcrest Park last year. 1. Woodcrest Park land has a very high water table, some areas within a 2 foot water table depth. This means that water tends to pool rather than sink into the soils. • 2 . Woodcrest Park soils are a high percentage peat, which means that the soil moves. Moving soils would require soil correction for any improvement such as athletic field, paved parking lot, etc. In the past even ice rinks developed large heat boils due to peat heat. Removing the peat requires soil corrections which is a very costly venture. 3 . Woodcrest Park land really was once the same wetland type area that is directly north of the park. Currently rain water flows through Woodcrest Park to the southwest corner where it flows into the storm water ditches and under the Silver Lake Road culvert. 4 . The open storm water ditch that is located along Woodcrest Drive is a city ditch that is connected in a storm water management system. The storm water ditch that is located along Silver Lake Road is a Ramsey County storm water ditch of which Rice Creek Watershed has jurisdiction. The City of Mounds View prepared an Outdoor Recreation grant for improvements to Woodcrest Park which included culverting the ditch along Woodcrest Dr. , re-grading the site for better run- off, and ponding run-off to an area in the back of the park. Improvements also included paving the parking lot, constructing a youth athletic field, and improvements to the park building. • Unfortunately the grant was not awarded. The cost of these improvements would have exceeded $130, 000 with much of the cost resulting in storm water run-off management. dePRINTED WITH � SOYINK_ 2401 Highway 10 • Mounds View, MN 55112-1499 ,gyred cede.