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BOA MINUTES 7/27/95 Page 7 2) . The stream channel, situated in the bottom of a shallow valley, is several feet wide, 2-3 feet deep and normally transmits two cubic feet of water per second at a velocity of one foot per second and, together with the adjacent wetlands west of the stream, drains approximately 880 acres of watershed into the Sugar River one-half mile to the South at a rate of descent of 82 feet per mile. 3) . Applicant proposes to bridge the stream with an elevated, 44-foot, steel girder and plank, single span, bridge. 4) . One hundred year-flood levels indicate a 3-4 foot rise in the surface level of the stream with a substantial increase in its velocity and overflow of its banks . 5) . That portion of the wetlands on both sides of the proposed roadway, approximately 400 feet in length, is not included on the 1986 Wisconsin Wetland Inventory Maps on file with Dane County but appears to be a contiguous extension of the hundred plus acres of Wisconsin DNR mapped wetlands lying to the South which form a wetland corridor to the Sugar River. 6) . The quality of the wetlands surrounding the proposed roadway is characterized as a sedge meadow with isolated pockets of shallow, standing water and possesses the vegetation, soils and hydrology of a defined wetland with a discharge flow rate of 270 cubic feet per second. 7) . The area is habitat for ducks, cranes, frogs and other wetland creatures . 8) . One hundred year flood levels indicate an increase in the discharge flow to be as much as 330 cubic feet per second. 9) . Updating available wetland maps to current conditions would include subject wetlands which are in excess of two acres . 10) . Construction of the 20-foot wide road and bridge within the 66-foot right-of-way will disturb approximately two acres of shoreland-wetland and will require 3 feet of fill topped with breaker-run and asphalt, and the installation of sediment traps and heavy rip-rapping. 11) . Applicant' s closest public road is Coray Lane in the town of Springdale less than 200 feet west of his property. Applicant claims neither the Town of Verona nor Springdale will permit him access to Coray Lane.