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January 18, 2013 Mayor and City Council City of Pequot Lakes 4368 County Road 11 Pequot Lakes, MN 56472 via email (speine & mloven @pequotiakes- mn.gov) RE: Engineering Services Proposal Nelson Road Improvements Dear Pequot Lakes and Ideal Township: Brainard I Baxter 7804 Industrial Park Road PO Box 2720 Baxter, MN 56425.2720 Tels 218.829-5117 raxr 218- 829-2517 w .wsn.us.com Board of Supervisors Mr. Jim Brandt Ideal Township via email only (jbrandt @uslink.net) We have met with both the City and Township a couple of times regarding the above mentioned project. We understand the preference is to design the project in 2013 with possible 2014 construction. The proposed improvements are to approximately 5,000 feet of Nelson Road (City of Pequot Lakes on the west, Ideal Township on the east) from Wild Acres Road on the north to Akerson Road / Buschmann Road on the south. The proposed Improvements include the following: • The existing roadway does not appear to be suitable for bituminous resurfacing (i.e. it has met its useable life) and will likely only yield minimal salvageable base material. Hence, a complete reconstruct will be required. • The desire is that the design speed limit remain 40 mph. • Cutting some of the hills and filling some of the dips so that sight lines (day and night) will be improved. We will review the existing profile for vertical site distances associated with a 40 -mph roadway to determine the extent of cutting and filling necessary. If significant impacts result, we will communicate / meet with each entity on this. • The new roadway will be paved 24 feet wide with 1 -foot wide Class 5 shoulders. • We understood from both entities that there should be good drainable (permeable) soil along this roadway. Based on this assumption minimal swales on each side will keep water away from and out of the roadway. engineering I architecture I land surveying I environmental services