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Board approves purchase of wetland mitigation credits for County Road 157 project; revised agreement rises to $328,566.64
Summary
Stearns County authorized a revised wetland credit reservation for mitigation tied to the County Road 157 reconstruction project (CRP 703-150-721). The county will reserve 3.56 acres of credits; the updated purchase price is $328,566.64 and will be charged to local-option sales tax funding for the project.
County Engineer Jody Tyke told the board the County Road 157 reconstruction project between Freeport and Albany requires wetland mitigation credits and that recent federal and state permitting interpretations increased the needed acreage and purchase cost.
Tyke said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requires mitigation even where the county is excavating in wetland to create stormwater-treatment facilities, a position that…
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