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October 16, 2001 Screening Plan Goal The primary objective is to ensure long-term buffering between the landfill and the railroad trail, using trees and other appropriate vegetation. To accomplish this, the plan calls for maintaining and enhancing the efficiency of existing trees and to improve efficiency of tree row in collecting blowing debris and improving aesthetics. Plant materials will provide year-around buffering and have year around foliage. Another objective is to establish a long-term buffering along the west edge of the landfill. Low maintenance and fast-growing tree species would help maintain tree rows that already exist and provide added windbreaks to voided areas of trees. Screening Plan Design Align 1 row of tree plantings and 1 row of shrub plantings along voids of trees on the west side, to include property owned by the City of Elk River. A selected spruce species will provide year-round foliage and a large, dense canopy to improve aesthetics and collect debris. Spruce plantings will be spaced approximately 30' apart. Planting stock: will be either potted or B & B with approximately heights at 5-fi. Recommended spruce include Norway spruce, white spruce or approved species. Align 1 row of dogwood variety adjacent to spruce. Dogwood is shade tolerant, have a self-suckering ability to spread and will provide a dense, ground level buffer. Space dogwoods approximately 5 feet apart. Recommended planting stock is barefoot in sizes of 18" up to 30". Other shrub species to consider include ginnala maple, viburnum varieties such as nannyberry, or false indigo. This screening plan is in correlation with Sherburne County's screening plan. Design Elk River Landfill welcomes the opportunity to work with the City and/or the Trail Group to develop an acceptable design, which would likely include the placement of conifers along the west and south slopes of the sedimentation ponds.