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W <br />I <br />I! <br />■ Mitigate wetland impacts resulting from expansion of the Austin Road Landfill by <br />enhancing the habitat value within the floodplain of the proposed creek realignment area <br />exceeding that which is currently found along the existing creek. <br />■ Meet and exceed the functions and values of the existing creek with the proposed <br />■ Provide a design program for the Proposed creek realignment that will allow for decreased <br />creek maintenance and reduced vegetation clearing activities compared with those <br />currently incurred within the adversely affected portions (reaches) of the channel. <br />Provide for 1 • / compensation plan • r creek mitigationto <br />landfill facilitate the City's <br />•,needs. <br />The proposed mitigation conceptto compensate for project impacts on <br />by creating a new channel with characteristics similarto those of •ing stream channel and <br />slope,adding 39.4 acres of riparian habitat (Figure 3-1). 71be created channel has been designed to emulate <br />andmeander-belt average width. <br />creaung new plant Kau F1 <br />' 6 wider <br />-.. • • 1. is ,will is for 1.'. •riparian vegetation •'without'1' 1 : % <br />••1 r <br />The cross-sectional area of the low -flow channel of the realigned creek will be constructed to <br />the same dimensions as those of the existing creek. If streamside wetlands develop to their existing <br />Wetland Mitigation and Monitoring Plan for the <br />Austin Road landfill Expansion. <br />U. S. Army Corps of Engineers File 199400974 <br />1 Cin of Stockton <br />Chapter J. Wetland Mitigation ana monuiaring roan <br />3-1 April 5. 1996 <br />