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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1995.10.10 - William Wolcott Wetland ReviewJ 9c^nJ K-5' **At L.\ \# Ande K. Grahn, Associate Planner Madrona Planning and DeveloPment 601 Tyler Street. Port Townsend, WA 98368 Dixie Llewellin Wetland Consultant 856 50th Street Port Townsend, WA 98368 (360) 38s- 6432 a c$ c William Wolcott Wetland Review October 10, 1995 9)q Legal DescriPtion:OOl-094003 Tax g (E 300' N. of Hwy, Ls Tax 28) 3.01 acres, Sims WaY,City Of Port Townsend Washington ' TNTRODI]CTTON On a preliminary walk-through of Wolcott property October 3' and Octoblr G, 1995 I did not see any areas that qualify as jurisdictional wetlands. The site consists mostly of dry uplands ivnicft rise east of Howard street and north of the Hilltop Tavern' Drainage ditches and perk holes were found on the site. WETI,ANDS Although there were no regulated wetLands found, wetland vegetaiion exists in a drainage ditch on the south eastern edge of the 3 acres. In patches hydrophytic vegetatign wa-s 'identified throughout the proplrty but ias consistently under -the 519 of dominant cover requit"O to indicate the presence of a wetland' The Wolcott property and the adjacent wetland do not appear on National Wetland Inventory Uaps, or City of Port Townsend Wetland Maps.. ,Jefferson county soil slrvey classifies the soil as clallam Crivelly Sandy Loam urilicn is not on thd Hydric Soil List of Jefferson County. ADJACENT WETI"ANDS South of the Wolcott property there is a small, isolated class IV wetland which catches drainage from both the Hilltop Tavern parking lot and the Wolcott property. Ca|tails and canary reed,grur" iere the main vegetatibn type but sedges, splrea and Pacific WlLlow were also observed-. The cattail wetland is well under the 10,000 square feet required to qualify as a regulated or jurisdictional wetland by the Environmentally Sensitive Areas ordinance (city of port Towisend LL/L6/92) . This wetland was 4ryt which is to be expected this time of year' 6rv{vr ,fu)rctr lorc-+t w6? *at-a- Wlt,J-{ttJ s?Ra qwus NtttjrJ t"f'\ 5r9 -*-.I \r\ U "1 tg- i{ft0p1-ruxanl ?Puf,L -{-v?6 \-Jrrrnrn [,tjo L(,eTf l-il erlAt*o K€ u 1€w ii Ocronr:L tO D Ll€ugtl N.r5. rq5 {N ,.'A ,dd\u d ^PGP, { / DUN^6e kn 5/^\s l,J