Section

7a. Describe how the project has been designed to avoid and minimize adverse impacts to wetlands.

Describe how your project is designed to avoid or reduce impacts to wetlands. Include whether the project location was selected to reduce impacts and how construction techniques would help reduce or avoid impacts.

Definition(s):

· Impact: For the purposes of this JARPA any activity in or adjacent to a wetland should be considered an impact; impacts may be temporary or permanent

· Mitigation: Actions taken to avoid, minimize, and compensate for adverse or negative effects on the environment.

· Wetland: An area that is inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas.