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Review Draft Eastern Gateway Wetland Restoration Site -- Annual Report that naturally occur on the site including wet prairie and emergent wetland types. (Briefly describe conceptual plan) Refer to preliminary conceptual plan in Appendix Design Goal: • To restore the site to a high quality natural habitat with the diversity of wetland types occuring naturally on the site. • To provide opportunities for compatible human use of the site, including wildlife observation, research, and environmental education. Design Criteria: • excavate the fill material on the site leaving behind the native (hydric) soil. • allow presence of native soils (mapped as Natroy, Courtney and Holcomb by the Lane County Soil Survey) to determine the site topography with gentle slopes transitioning to non - wetland areas. • establish wetland hydrology on the site by lowering soil surface to the seasonal high water table. • establish wet prairie plant community south of the existing pond and in the eastern portion of the site. • establish emergent meadow and vernal plant communities north of the pond and western section of the site. Project Timeline The Eastern Gateway Wetland Restoration project was designed, constructed and planted in the same year. The initial work on the project centered around a suitable location for .84 acre impact at Mahlon Sweet Airport, Eugene OR. The WEWP had not yet been . formerly adopted by state and federal agencies. In searching for a suitable site it became clear thatlmaost of the available mitigation sites required much more restoration than required by the airport project. Thus the idea to combine the airport mitigation needs with other smaller projects was conceived. Once this idea was accepted, a memorandum of agreement was prepared and the design construction and planting occurred more or less on schedule. Figure _, is a copy of the project time line. One of the requirements of the MOA was for the City to submit the site Page 5 •