Draft Environmental Impact Report - East Bay Municipal Utility District

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Chapter 3Environmental Setting, Impacts and MitigationMeasures3.1 Introduction3.1.1. Organization of Chapter 3Chapter 3 is organized by environmental discipline, as follows: 3.2 Visual Quality 3.3 Geology, Soils, and Seismicity 3.4 Biological Resources 3.5 Cultural Resources 3.6 Traffic and Circulation 3.7 Air Quality 3.8 Greenhouse Gas 3.9 Noise and VibrationEach section of Chapter 3 provides the following, based on requirements of the CaliforniaEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA).Approach to AnalysisThis subsection describes the general approach to analyzing a given environmental topicand cross-references related issues addressed elsewhere in this Environmental ImpactReport (EIR).Setting/Regulatory FrameworkThis subsection presents a description of the existing physical environmental conditionsin the vicinity of the Project and pertinent regulations including local and regional plans.Significance CriteriaRefer to the discussion presented in Section 3.1.3.Impacts and Mitigation MeasuresRefer to the discussions presented in Sections 3.1.3 and 3.1.4.sb09_001.doc 3-1.1 7/22/2009
Estates Reservoir Replacement Draft Environmental Impact ReportEnvironmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures3.1.2. Resources Not Evaluated Further in The EIRSection 15128 of the CEQA Guidelines addresses Effects Not Found To Be Significant.“An EIR shall contain a statement indicating the reasons that various possible significanteffects were found not to be significant and were therefore not discussed in detail in theEIR. Such statement may be contained in an attached copy of an Initial Study”,Section 15083 Early Public Consultation"(a) Scoping has been helpful to agencies in identifying the range of actions,alternatives, mitigation measures, and significant effects to be analyzed in depth in anEIR and in eliminating from detailed study issues found not to be important."Pursuant to Section 15128 and 15083 (a) of the CEQA Guidelines, this EIR shall analyzeonly those effects identified as potentially significant in the Initial Study prepared for thisProject. These effects include: Aesthetics; Biological Resources; Cultural Resources;Noise; Air Quality; Geology/Soils; and Transportation/Traffic. In addition, to meet staterequirements to consider greenhouse gas contributions to potential climate change, ananalysis of the Project’s greenhouses gas emissions and potential to contribute to globalwarming is also included in this EIR.Effects found not to be significant and excluded from this EIR include: Hazard/Hazardous Materials; Public Services; Utilities/Service Systems; Agricultural Resources;Recreation; Population/Housing; and Land Use/Planning.The Initial Study prepared for the Project is attached as Appendix B.3.1.3 Impact SignificanceIn Chapter 3, the environmental impacts of the proposed Project are identified andclassified as either significant or less than significant. Section 15382 of the CEQAGuidelines defines a significant impact as “a substantial, or potentially substantial,adverse change in any of the physical conditions within the area affected by the project.”For each category of physical conditions evaluated in this EIR, criteria for significancehave been developed, using the CEQA Guidelines, city and county standards andpolicies, or the “significance thresholds” of federal, state, regional, or local agencies.Impacts classified as significant meet the criteria for significance developed for eachcategory of physical conditions. Impacts that are not significant (because they do notmeet the significance criteria) are identified as less than significant (and/or beneficial).These less than significant impacts include conditions where there is no measurablephysical change in the environment, i.e., no impact. Impacts were determined bycomparing the environmental effects of constructing and operating the Estates ReservoirReplacement Project with existing environmental conditions. Each impact is numbered,sb09_001.doc 3-1.2 7/22/2009
Page 1:
Estates Reservoir ReplacementDraft
Page 4 and 5:
TABLE OF CONTENTSEstates Reservoir
Page 6 and 7:
Estates Reservoir Replacement Draft
Page 8 and 9: ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONSABABAGAPC
Page 10 and 11: Estates Reservoir Replacement Draft
Page 12 and 13: SUMMARYS.1 IntroductionThis Draft E
Page 14 and 15: Estates Reservoir Improvements Draf
Page 42 and 43: Chapter 2Project Description2.1 Ove
Page 100 and 101: 3.5 Cultural Resources3.5.1 Approac
Page 108 and 109:
Page 110 and 111:
Page 112 and 113:
Page 114 and 115:
Page 116 and 117:
Page 118 and 119:
Page 120 and 121:
Page 122 and 123:
Page 124 and 125:
Page 126 and 127:
3.6 Traffic and Circulation3.6.1 Ap
Page 128 and 129:
Page 130 and 131:
Page 132 and 133:
Page 134 and 135:
Page 136 and 137:
Page 138 and 139:
Page 140 and 141:
Page 142 and 143:
Page 144 and 145:
Page 146 and 147:
Page 148 and 149:
Page 150 and 151:
Page 152 and 153:
Page 154 and 155:
Page 156 and 157:
Page 158 and 159:
Page 160 and 161:
Page 162 and 163:
Page 164 and 165:
Page 166 and 167:
Page 168 and 169:
Page 170 and 171:
Page 172 and 173:
Page 174 and 175:
Page 176 and 177:
Page 178 and 179:
Page 180 and 181:
Page 182 and 183:
Page 184 and 185:
Page 186 and 187:
Page 188 and 189:
Page 190 and 191:
Page 192 and 193:
Page 194 and 195:
Page 196 and 197:
Page 198 and 199:
Page 200 and 201:
Page 202 and 203:
Page 204 and 205:
Page 206 and 207:
Page 208 and 209:
Page 210 and 211:
Page 212 and 213:
Page 214 and 215:
Page 216 and 217:
Page 218 and 219:
CHAPTER 5Cumulative Impacts, Growth
Page 220 and 221:
Page 222 and 223:
Page 224 and 225:
Page 226 and 227:
Page 228 and 229:
Page 230 and 231:
CHAPTER 6Report Preparers6.1 Lead A
Page 232 and 233:
APPENDIX APublic InvolvementPublic
Page 234:
APPENDIX BNotice of PreparationAUGU
Page 238 and 239:
Dingee Pressure Zone Improvement Pr
Page 240 and 241:
Page 242 and 243:
Page 244 and 245:
Page 246 and 247:
Page 248 and 249:
Page 250 and 251:
Page 252 and 253:
Page 254 and 255:
Page 256 and 257:
Page 258 and 259:
Page 260 and 261:
Page 262 and 263:
Page 264 and 265:
Page 266 and 267:
Page 268 and 269:
Page 270 and 271:
Page 272 and 273:
Page 274 and 275:
FIGURESDingee Pressure Zone Improve
Page 276 and 277:
Page 278 and 279:
Page 280:
show all

Draft Environmental Impact Report - East Bay Municipal Utility District

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?