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E)3/031?006 31:��� <br />03/03/2�C5 31:83 <br />;1C`.jq?a?;5 <br />�2�33i3f:45 <br />57E^—L�615T EV'E�ETT I".� <br />Iti=TLi:bc^u i2�57L'F:CE:" <br />FA�-E 33;'S <br />PA.= d? <br />US Fish and 'Wildlife S�ivice, bnth=_pecies ar:: indicative of disturbed, <br />- .. ... <br />up1- ana—sites rri Snohoriiist: �Coun�y. We foui�d c—he_ vegetation to be <br />inconcl"usiv� q? we�land ��ndiUons od this sate. <br />Vegetation in thc 1.5 acre site, bcyond the high u+ak�t mark of the creek:, z�• <br />dominated by ied alcler, sroulezs willow :ilad salmonberry (Ru�ius <br />specta6rtis). The streazn 'itself was essenli;:lly voad of vegetation. Iiigh <br />veloci[y, short duration stream flows are apparendy zesponsible for this <br />condition. <br />�• <br />V1%ithin il�e �.5 acre Parccl, ail areas where some topo�raphic depzession was <br />evident, or whete there apgeated to be a dominanCe of cottonwood, spirea, <br />velvetgrass or trefoil, were imestigated for hydric suil chazactezzstics. No <br />inclzcators of laydric soIIs were discovered throughout this entizc site. 'I'he <br />soils we[e generatly £ound_ to he sandy co gravolty, with chroma coloxs q� 4/2 <br />to a14. No evidence of calor mottling assocxater3 with reducing conditions in <br />the soiJ, profile tvas obserded. Compaction t}�icat 4f a graded and-cicazed__ <br />site was evidcnt in m� Gf_our aoil inYesugation piis: -- <br />Wztbin thc srream corridur on tbe i,S.acre portion o£ this �roject, soils weze <br />silt loam in textu[e, wSth nantrix colars oi IOXR 4/1 to 4/2. bfottling was <br />appazeat <br />ii dr e : <br />Jnvestigation ot'the.4;51txa sue occured after a day of moderate rainfall zn a <br />period of low to norrnal [.uecipitation. No standinS_�Yater was ob prve�d�n <br />tba site cxcept in the road,diuh along tf2e westem boundary of the xo <br />Tliis water appearcd to be associated with khe iminediate raiafall• Tt�e <br />iavesragation pits were dzy:to moist throup,h thc first 20 incl�es. <br />The soils in the stream corridor �yere saturated at the surface. <br />��f al ,�d Dptermiriatio� t'^n a�ion: <br />'ihe Federal ;vtanual for lden6fying And Delineatisag Jur�sdictionat We[lauds <br />C(Janiiary 1939�)requizes that wetlands meet thc cnt�ria of a dominance of <br />wetlAnd vegetanon, be:underlain with hydric soils and l�ave wetland <br />hydtnlogy. Because the 4.5 acre_ site is not undex�ain__with_kaytlz�c_s9��s and <br />does �o.t_havc kndicatois-.of weLl�dhydrol�gy, the site_does.not ra�et the_ <br />1�589 deEiiuFion of iurisdictiona�wedands. On the i.5 acre par�el,_ the stre-tm <br />corridor is class�ed as a Category 1�X Scream: <br />