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MKT Trail - 3M Urban Ecological Restoration Project

Funding Fiscal Year:	2011
Project Number:	C00460
Project Budget:	$120,394**
Funding Source:	$40,000 - 3M Grant $20,000 - Park Sales Tax* $25,000 - Five Star Grant* $ 9,000 - USFWS Cost-Share* $20,000 - RTP Grant* $3,894 - Recycling Revenue $2,500 - MDC/MO Conservation Heritage Foundation
In-Kind Donation	$9,000 - Forest Releaf of MO (1,000 trees and shrubs value)

* Mid-year appropriation
**Appropriation pending Council approval and/or project completion and reimbursement.

Bill Moore, 3M Plant Manager
Groundbreaking Ceremony

Project Description: This project will reclaim and restore an environmentally degraded site along an important riparian forest corridor by creating wetland habitat, planting native bottomland woods, and removing invasive species. Project location is at the the old Sewer Plant #2 - MKT trail bufferland near Forum Blvd. and Chapel Hill Road. Plans include conversion of the vacated sewer treatment pump house building to a viewing platform with a green roof, as funding allows. Structural engineering analysis and grading work to be contracted. All other work to be done with Park staff and partners.

Image of wetland plans and link to larger image

Image of wetland plan with stormwater information and link to larger image

Click on images above for enlargements

Project Manager: Brett O'Brien, Natural Resource Supervisor, 573-874-7489, BJO@GoColumbiaMO.com

Council Items: Click here.
Plans: Click here.

Interested Parties Meeting: Held at 5:30pm on September 28, 2010 at the ARC. See press release.

Project Notes: Project was approved at the January 18, 2011 Council Meeting. Park staff worked with the Missouri Department of Conservation Wet Team, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and the City of Columbia Storm Water Utility Department to develop a restoration plan for the project area. Groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 23, 2011.

Project Partners: 3M, Columbia Public Works, Boone County Public Works, Columbia Water and Light, Columbia Audubon Society, Missouri Department of Conservation, Forest ReLeaf of Missouri, Missouri River Relief, National Association of Counties Research Foundation, Missouri Native Plant Society, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Recreational Trail Program, Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation (through MDC), Columbia Aquatic Restoration Project volunteers, and TreeKeepers volunteers.

Project Status: Work completed on pump house structural renovation. Staff working on building conversion to green roof viewing platform. TreeKeepers and CARP volunteers planted 394 three-gallon container trees. Conduit installed by P&R staff for undergrounding of overhead electric and fiber-optic. Basic trail construction completed. Fifty volunteers planted 400 five-gallon container trees.

Major Vendors
**	Vendor	Item	Purchase Order#	Amount
E	Archon Engineering	Structural analysis of pump house building	111440	$2,550
C	Asbestos Removal	Abestos abatement	111318	$1,425
M	Water & Sewer	Pipe	110267 & 112288	$8,653
M	HD Supply Waterworks	Pipe	112289	$2,673
M	Carters-Waters	Geosynthetics	112402	$8,156
C	Richardson Excavation	Earth work	111103	T&S Contract

* * E = engineering/architect; C = contract work; M = materials only

Project site after being cleared and mowed. (Photo taken 6/23/11.)
Pump house building before conversion to viewing platform. (Photo taken 6/23/11.)
Artist rendering of what pump house building converted to viewing platform with green roof could look like. *(Click on image for enlargement.)*

Capital Improvement Program

MKT Trail

MKT Trail - 3M Urban Ecological Restoration Project

Major Vendors