1001 W CASINO RD BASE FILE 2018-01-01 MF Import

� 1 1.o Iatroduation This report documents the results of our field investiqation of tha Victorian Place property, located in tha City of Everett, Washinqton (Fiqure 1) . The property is located within a portion of Section 12, Township 28 North, Range 4 East, W.M. The proparty liea east of llth Drive West, and is wedqed between Wast Casino Road on the south aide of the property and State Route 526 on the north, as ehown on the Vicinity Map (Figure 2) . The purpose of the investiqation was to identify and delineate any portions of the property that could be classified as wetland. The field work was conducted on May 23, 1989, by Ms. Val Rpooner Kelly, and Mr. Richard W. Lundquist. i 2.o n�liaitioa� aaa M�thoaologp The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (COE) wetland definition was used to determine whather any portions of thie property would be classified as wetlands. For the purpose of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, a wetland fa defined as an area "inundated or saturated by surface or qroundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumetances doeB support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions" (Federal Reqieter 1986:41251) . The technical quidelines of the Federal Interaqency Committee for Wetland Delineation (1989) were used during our field work. These guidelines are the result of a joint effort by the COE, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) , Environmental Protection Aq9ncy (EP11) and the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) to provide uniform methods of watland delineation. As the Federal Manual for ldentifyinq and Delineating Jurisdictional Watlands (1989) indicates, the technical guidelina to identify and delineate wetlands is based on three parametera: vegetntion, soils, and hydroloqy. in qeneral, the three parameters muet all be mat for an area to be identified as wetland (Federal Interaqency Committee for Watland Delineation 1989) . The interaction of vegetation, soils, and hydroloqy results in the development • of characteristics unique to wetlands. Hydrophytic vegetation ". . .is dePined as macrophytic plant life qrowinq in water, soil or substrate that is at least periodically deficient in oxyqen as a result of excasaive water content" and ie a positive indicator of wetland (Federal Interaqency Committee for Wetland Delineation 1989) . Therefore, the plant communitiea on the property were asaessed to determine whether any of them could be classified as hydrophytic. The United States Fieh and Wildlife Service wetland Indicator Status (WIS) ratinqs were