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Page 3 of 4 Roger, I'm forwarding Jim Knowles'email and attachments re: the Harbort property. Kris Original Message From: Jim Knowles [mailto:james.knowles @jdknowles.com] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:30 PM To: Schutte, Kristine; Steinhauer, Charles; Everson, Daniel Cc: 'Peterson, Cami L - DNR'; Eric.Heggelund@Wisconsin.gov Subject: FW: Wetland Site Review Good Morning, I just wanted to give you an update on our progress for the wetland boundary verification effort at the site within the Holland Fields subdivision in the Town of DeForest. Below is an email I sent to the WDNR this morning after talking with Eric Heggelund. We still have a very good opportunity to verify that the wetland line has or has not shifted for this site because there is little or no ground frost to speak of and site vegetation is quite identifiable. Once I hear from Eric and Cami that we are a go for next Tuesday I would expect we would be there some time around 10:00 a.m. to take advantage of the maximum lighting of the day; this gives us the best view of soils which is necessary to obtain the correct Munsell color determination. I have attached the current shoreland-wetland map for the site with the approximate 1998 wetland line (yellow) added for comparison. It would be great if we could reach concurrence on Tuesday in the field followed by County issuance of the Conditional Use Permit, assuming all is well with the site where the project and County restrictions are concerned, by the end of the day or at the latest early next week. Please feel free to give me a call at 920/885-9424 if you have any questions. Jim From: Jim Knowles [mailto:james.knowles @jdknowles.com] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 9:13 AM To: Peterson, Cami L- DNR; 'Eric.Heggelund @Wisconsin.gov' Subject: Wetland Site Review Good Morning, Eric and I talked briefly this morning about a site in the Town of DeForest that has a need for us to review a wetland line that was approved by both the WDNR and COE in 1998. At the time the approvals were issued the site was farmed so the wetland boundary was determined primarily upon soils and hydrology. Today, the site is vegetated with a mixture of upland and wetland plants which give the impression that the wetland line has moved upslope. I looked at the site this past week, augured three test holes down to 30 inches along the slope from high to low-from 60 feet upslope of the mapped wetland line down to the wetland line, and found approximately 24 inches of colluvium deposits over the native soils. I did not find any signs of redox in the colluvium layer which suggests to me that the site wetland line has not moved much if at all. However, some of the vegetation (reed canary grass and red osier dogwood) suggests that the wetland line has moved. To really answer this question we need to establish at least four transects and a minimum of 4 sample points per transect and get a very good look at soils. The vegetation on the site is quite typical and easy to identify: reed canary grass, red osier dogwood, common milkweed, Canada goldenrod, wild carrot, and Kentucky blue grass. Ground frost is all but absent due to the nice carpet of snow. I only found water at about 24 inches at the sample hole located adjacent to the former wetland line. Interestingly, there was about 24 inches of colluvium over the native soils and hydrology at the lowest sample point. Since the site was last mapped much of the upland areas have been developed so nearly all of the surface water runoff that once passed overland and into the wetland complex has been rerouted 1/28/2009