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. 3, Quantity Distance Areas (Fragment Distances) - Federal regulations require that a "fragment distance" be maintained between all explosive manufacturing operations or storage locations and the surrounding area, thereby restricting public access (use and passage) within the area covered by the applicable quantity distance arcs. The Rice Creek channel and much of the contiguous floodplain within the Arden Hills segment are located within such fragment distances from explosive storage magazines. (Refer to map on page VI-57.) Solutions to such restricted use include the termination of explosive storage facilities close to the creek, realignment of the creek channel to the westerly edge of the floodplain or construction of deflection berms on the west side of the impacting storage units. Another issue is the maintenance of site security. Presently, the TCAAP boundary has a fence enclosure paralleled by a patrol road. Public use of the creek and site will require extension of the existing fence along the eastern boundary of the Arden Hills segment. 4, Floodplain - most of the land area in the corridor is located within the bounds of the floodplain for Rice Creek. Due to its status as a seasonally flooded "wetland", development within the floodplain should . be discouraged or kept to a minimum, 5, Old Highway 8 Realignment - during 1997 a segment (1000 feet) of Old Highway 8 and its intersection with County Road H will be realigned approximately 500 feet westward of its existing alignment. During 1988, the Metropolitan Council approved the County's request to exchange the "to-be-vacated" section of Old Highway 8 (1.95 acres) for an equivalent section of the Rice Creek corridor, The conditional approval requires the concurrent construction of a parking lot for canoe access on the abandoned and exchanged road right-of-way. . VI-56