Water Board Comment – Received March 3, 2025
Dear Mr. Byrd and Ms. Hilton, we reviewed the CEQA documents for this project and found that the project lies within one of our closed sites The Pacific Lumber Company Fortuna Mill. This site was closed with land use covenant (LUC) which contains restrictions governing future land use and future excavation work on the property. The LUC is available here: PALCO Fortuna_Recorded Covenant.pdf. The proposed use as an interchange is not prohibited in the LUC, but 1) all excavation work must be approved by the Regional Water Board in writing, 2) any excavation work shall be performed pursuant to an appropriate and fully implemented Health and Safety Plan and 3) all excavation work shall be performed in accordance with the January 20, 2020 site specific Soil & Groundwater Management Plan and revised figure. We recommend making these conditions of approval prior to finalizing the project. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.
Best,
Heidi M. Bauer, P.G.
Senior Engineering Geologist
Site Cleanups Unit Supervisor
North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board
5550 Skylane Blvd. Suite A
Santa Rosa, CA. 95403
[email protected]
Office: (707) 570-3769
Great Redwood Trail Agency Comment – Received March 28, 2025 Hi Brendan,
Thank you for sharing the notice for the public review of CEQA for the 12th St. project. Our primary requested edit and comment at this time is the following:
On page 1-3 (PDF page 8), please remove this sentence: "The railroad corridor is owned in fee by the GRTA." The railroad corridor is the GRTA right-of-way and under our control.
Under railbanking, the right-of-way (whether fee or easement) can be used for trail as an interim use. We appreciate the other areas of the document where the potential for a return to active rail (assumed under railbanking) has been acknowledged.
Thank you,
Hannah
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Hannah Bartee (she/her)
Project Manager, Great Redwood Trail
State Coastal Conservancy | www.scc.ca.gov
1515 Clay Street, Suite 1000, Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (341) 699-7426
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