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the site, increasing the diversity of plants and enhancing habitat. The City of Eugene is a DEQ <br />self administered municipality and will apply and be regulated under the 1200 c or ca guidelines. <br />Turtle and wildlife protections; Native western pond turtles will be protected on site throughout <br />this project. ODFW biologist will provide guidance and review of specification language that <br />governs the work of the contractor. Prior to work, any individual first coming to this site for the <br />purpose of working will be required to learn and identify the western pond turtle and be trained <br />on what to do if one is encountered during a work activity. This training will be performed by <br />City or ODFW staff and a paper, will be provided with discussion of this subject. Plans will be <br />developed for vegetation establishment that uses the plants as a barrier between people and turtle <br />nesting sites or areas identified to be restricted for natural resource or safety reasons. Barriers <br />such as fencing mav be used to restrict these sites only as necessary. Work will be scheduled to <br />minimize disturbance to nesting times of western pond turtles. <br />Construction activities: Equipment will be required to park away from any riparian locations and <br />on liquid barriers to eliminate accidental spilling: Specific locations will be identified for fueling <br />and maintenance activities away from sensitive areas. Management of site traffic will minimize <br />impacts to sensitive areas and these areas will be cordoned off for site protections. Barriers will <br />include temporary orange fencing, flagging and construction tape / staking as needed. Equipment <br />will be secured to avoid vandalism or actions that might cause environxnental harm on site. <br />Operations of equipment will be done in a way that the equipment will not enter into the <br />waterway other than the specific excavation done by the arms of the excavator. <br />Hydrological connections: This site is not a natural site and has been completely invented by <br />human activities. The current hydrological connections will be mimicked and no attempts to alter <br />this will be undertaken. With that said certain design features will affect the land form such as <br />the fill connection between the South and Main pond and creating a stable overland flow from <br />the North pond across to the main pond. This will be designed to allow the same flows to cross <br />the land but also allow a road crossing for emergency and maintenance vehicles. We anticipate <br />this to be a natural bottom culvert crossing under the road bed with bioengineered stabilization <br />performed on either side to spread flows and reduce current incision. <br />Page 12 <br />