PRELIMINARY PUBLIC NOTICE –

IMPACT TO FLOODPLAINS & WETLANDS

CITY OF BENNINGTON –

NEUMEYER FARM PARK &

ATHLETIC COMPLEX:

PHASE II PROJECT

The City of Bennington (City) intends to seek financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for costs related to the development of the Neumeyer Farm Park & Athletic Complex: Phase II project. This phase of the project will add four additional regulation-sized, multi-purposed youth sports fields, additional sidewalks and trails, and create new parking areas while expanding upon existing lots. The completion of this phase will create a flexible layout that ensures recreational fields of different sizes can be adjusted for all ages and levels of competition, primarily for youth soccer and football. The athletic complex will be developed south of Bennington Road, along Kempten Creek Drive, between 156th Street and 161st Street, in Bennington, Douglas County, Nebraska.

If implemented, the proposed project will convert or effect 0.001 acres of the regulatory floodway and permanently impact 0.001 acres of Palustrine Emergent, Temporarily/Seasonally Flooded (PEMA/C) wetlands. The impacts to the regulatory floodway and wetlands will be from the construction of a drainage pipe outfall and associated rock riprap placed along Big Papillion Creek for stabilization and scour protection.

In accordance with Executive Order 11988 - Floodplain Management, Executive Order 11990 – Protection of Wetlands, and 24 Code of Federal Regulations 55.20(b), the City is notifying the interested public of this land conversion or impact, and to request comments concerning the proposal, alternative sites or actions that would avoid these impacts, and methods that could be used to minimize these impacts.

The environmental documentation regarding this proposal is available for review at 15505 Warehouse Street, Bennington, NE 68007, and on the news page of the city website (benningtonne.com). For questions regarding this proposal, contact John Bohrer, City of Bennington Director, by email at publicworks@bennington.com, or by phone at (402) 238-2375.

Any person interested in commenting on this proposal should submit comments to the mailing or email address above by February 09, 2026.

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