Draft Environmental Impact Report - East Bay Municipal Utility District

Estates Reservoir Replacement Draft Environmental Impact ReportSummaryENVIRONMENTALIMPACT MITIGATION MEASURES EBMUD will coordinate with neighborhood representatives regarding the placement of newplantings to effect screening., and this input will be incorporated into the Final Landscape Plan. The contractor shall be required to warrant landscape plantings for one year after projectcompletion. EBMUD will ensure that the contractor restores graded, disturbed areas to a natural-appearinglandform. Site improvements will include aesthetic/architectural treatment where facilities are locatednear to, or are visible from, public trails and residences, namely:- Creating a new drainage feature with rocks and stones, around the reservoir valve pit at thebase of the excavated basin.- Improving the existing trail on EBMUD property, along Estates Drive.- Constructing a low, rustic, wooden fence along Estates Drive.- Constructing a parking area for EBMUD equipment and staff vehicles in the valve pit area.- Replacing the existing six foot high, two-inch web, perimeter chain-link security fencing,with an eight-foot high, one-inch web chain link fence in the same location. The new fencewill be the same color as the existing fence, black.SIGNIFICANCEAFTERMITIGATIONImpact 3.2-3: Effects on ascenic vista.Mitigation Measure: Not Required: The Project site is not within a defined scenic vista. Existingperimeter vegetation along Estates Drive allows only filtered views into the site from adjacentresidences. Mature trees on the dam downslope block distant views of the Bay. Project demolitionand construction will occur within the bowl of the existing reservoir and will not create or openscenic vistas. Reduction of the dam embankment by 25 feet will open views to the lower site butmature trees along the embankment slope (towards Woods Drive) will continue to block/filter distantviews of the Bay.sb09_001.doc S-6 7/22/2009