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<br />Wetland Under Attack. Please Help <br /> <br />I see many articles on protecting our wetlands and on planting vegetation to improve our water resources. <br />However, across the street from me is a wetland under attack: <br />1. Vehicles are parked on the turf creating mud ruts and sediment that washes into the wetland. <br />2. Grass is mowed right down to the wetland, even though IT IS NOT IDS PROPERTY AND HE <br />DOES NOT HAVE PERMISSION. In fact, the property owner has written a letter to the city <br />forbidding him from doing that. He mows anyway. <br />3. In the winter, snow and scrapped up dirt is dumped into the wetland. <br />Centerville ordinance 4, Division 140: Wetland Protection and Management states, "Permanent natural <br />buffer areas and appropriate erosion control measures be taken surrounding wetland areas to prevent <br />sedimentation of the wetland." Centerville should 1) set the area no parking, 2) stop the mowing, <br />3) prevent snow dumping, and 4) plant deep root vegetation to protect the wetland. <br /> <br />Here follows further documentation, mostly in pictures. <br /> <br /> <br />Issue 1. Vehicles Damaging Wetland Border. <br />First concerns the parked vehicles. There is almost always a vehicle parked on the street as there is a paid <br />nurse there 24 hours a day. A driveway was apparently built with public money for the nurse but it is only <br />used at night. Other people in the community have complained about the situation. Notice the mud ruts <br />and e to the vegetation next to the wetland. <br />.~t '~I$~.\~. ~:,,"; <br /> <br />j ",:'.,'. <br />~~:',?~l\'i~ ~~ <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />