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Type 4 Inland Deep Fresh Marsh: Soil covered with six inches to three feet or more of water <br />during art owing season. Vegetation includes cattails, reeds, bulrushes. and wild rice. Open water areas <br />may contain pondweeds. naiads, coontA water milfoils and other submergent aquatic vegetation. <br />Tyke 5 Inland Open Fresh Water: Water is usually less than 10 feet deep and is fringed by a <br />border of emerVent vegeta�egetation includes pondweeds, naiads, coontail, water milfoils and <br />other submergent aquatic vegetation. <br />Type 6 Shrub Swamp: Occurs along sluggish streams or on floodplains. The soil is usually <br />waterlogged during the growink season and is often covered with as much as six inches of water. <br />Vegetation includes alder, willow, and dogwood. <br />Type 7 Wooded Swamp: Occurs alon,upgish streams, on floodplains, on flat perched <br />depressions and in shallow lake basins. The soil is waterlo,gVed to within a few inches of its surface <br />during the growing season and is often covered with as much as one foot of water. Vegetation <br />timical to this wetland includes tamarack, white cedar, black spruce, balsam fir. red maple and black <br />ash. <br />Type 8 Bog: Occurs along sluggish streams, on flat perched dg.12ressions and shallow lake basins. <br />The soil is waterlogged and sWports a spongy covering of mosses. Vegetation !Wical to this wetland <br />t�.ne includes sphagnum moss, heath shrubs and sedges. Minnesota bogs contain leatherlea.f, <br />Labrador tea, cranberries' and pitcher plants. Scattered stunted black spruce and tamarack are also <br />common features of boes. <br />Other: Areas that exhibit wetland characteristics but were created for a purpose other than to create <br />a wetland are exempt from this section. This includes areas such as storm water ponds, roadway <br />ditches, or other areas that receive artificial hydrology. The landowner has the responsibility to prove <br />by a preponderance of the evidence that an area is exempt under this paragraph. <br />The reconstruction and maintenance of existWg public roads and associated public utilities are <br />exempt from this section 30.1850 as long as they comply with the WCA as approved by city staff. <br />3. Interpretation of Wetlands Boundaries. <br />Whenever a delineated wetland boundary is disputed or uncertain, the city planner or desjoee may <br />convene the technical evaluation panel according to the WCA rules. The owner must have the <br />delineated wetland boundary staked in the field in order for the panel to evaluate the area. The <br />technical evaluation panel and city planner or designee may require additional information to resolve <br />the dispute or uncertainty. Persons aggrieved by a decision of the citesplanner, or designee may <br />appeal the decision as provided in section 30-1893 of this ordinance and the WCA rules as <br />applicable. <br />4. Wetland Buffer Areas. <br />a) This subsection establishes requirements for wetland buffer areas around protected type 1-8 <br />wetlands. Buffer areas are necessary and beneficial to maintain the health of wetlands. Buffer areas <br />protect the edge of wetlands from erosion while filtering sediment. chemicals and other nutrients <br />from runoff that drains into wetlands. Buffer areas can improve the biological diversity and health of <br />a wetland environment while reducing the adverse impacts of human activities. <br />Last Updated January 2023 <br />rP I I E I I I 11 <br />NATURE <br />