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<br />City of Roseville <br />Project No. CMXX-99-0290 <br />June 3, 1999 <br />Page 3 <br /> <br />B. Site Description <br /> <br />B.l. Site Location <br />The Site is located within Section 15, Township 29 North, Range 29 West, in the city ofRoseville, <br />Ramsey County, Minnesota. A Site location map and Site sketch are attached in Appendices A and <br />B, respectively. <br /> <br />B.2. Site and Vicinity Characteristics <br />At the time of this assessment, the Site consisted of a 1.9S-acre undeveloped lot currently used as a <br />park. The Site was first developed for a one-room frame school building in l892-1893. A four-room <br />brick school building replaced the wood-frame school in 1929. Multiple expansions took place at the <br />school from 1951 through 1966. The last classes were held during the 1975-1976 school year. <br />Beginning in 1976, the building served as a school for special needs students and for school district <br />office space until 1991. Due to deterioration, the building was demolished in the spring of 1993. <br /> <br />The Site was bordered on the north by County Road B with commercial and residential properties <br />located beyond, on the east by Lexington A venue with commercial properties located beyond, on the <br />south by an outdoor skating rink with Eldridge Avenue and residential properties located beyond, <br />and on the west by park land with Lindy A venue and residential properties located beyond. <br /> <br />B.3. Environmental Liens and Additional Information <br />No information regarding chain-of-title ownership history, environmental liens recorded against the <br />Site (if any), or specialized environmental knowledge or experience that may reveal indications of <br />recognized environmental conditions associated with the Site, was provided to Braun Intertec by the <br />User. <br /> <br />C. Records Review <br /> <br />c.t. Physical Setting Information <br />According to the United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S) 7.S-minute topographic map series, . <br />New Brighton, Minnesota quadrangle, the Site is located at an elevation of 950 feet above mean sea <br />level and slopes gently downward to the northeast. <br /> <br />The unconsolidated sedimentary deposits in the vicinity of the Site are Pleistocene Age, Grantsburg <br />Sublobe Till Deposits which consists ofloam-textured till; ranges from loamy sand to clay that is <br />beneath as much as 20 feet of stream sediment (Patterson, 1992). <br />