Indicate whether your project will or could impact wetland buffers. Impacts to buffers can happen from activities occurring within a wetland or some distance away (for example: filling, excavating, draining, or clearing vegetation). If you will or could have wetland buffer impacts, describe the impacts, including type, amount, and duration in Question 7h.
For more information about wetland regulations and the Clean Water Act go to: http://water.epa.gov/type/wetlands/index.cfm.
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
· 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.
· Wetland Buffer: A protective area of land surrounding a wetland.