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Show Centerville 's recreation complex delayed by Corps of Engineers Plan for the complex, along with a man made pond, would account for just over two acres of mitigated land. The city is now looking into either replacing the remaining acre with adjacent property, or revising its plan. "This came as a surprise because we had no idea that any property east of 1-15 qualified as wetlands," city administrator David Hales said. "We're studying options now to see the best way to satisfy this requirement re-quirement ' ' In the meantime, nothing is happening hap-pening at the site, which will be developed de-veloped in phases into a recreation complex with ball diamonds, picnic areas and a swimming pool. By TOM HARALDSEN CENTERVILLE Construction on the City's new 23-acre recreation recrea-tion complex has been delayed recently re-cently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers because a small parcel of the property is federally -protected wetlands. A study conducted by Oliver Gran, wetlands scientist with Ecotone Environmental Consulting, showed about three acres of the site falls under wetlands protection. In order for the city to proceed with construction, those three acres will either need to be replaced or left alone. The city's staff prepared such a replacement proposal and discussed it with city council recently. The proposed swail area in the Master |