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Reclamation Releases Draft EA for North Coast County Water District's Water Recycling Project in California
Media Contact:
Pete Lucero, 916-978-5100, plucero@usbr.gov
For Release: February 16, 2010
The Bureau of Reclamation released a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the North Coast County Water District's (NCCWD) Water Recycling Project (WRP). The WRP would provide tertiary treated wastewater from the City of Pacifica's Calera Creek Water Recycling Plant (CCWRP) to irrigation sites within Pacifica, a coastal city located in San Mateo County, California.
Construction would include installing booster pumping facilities, a 400,000 gallon above-ground storage tank, and approximately 17,000 feet of transmission and distribution pipelines for recycled water.
"The project would replace potable water currently used for irrigating Pacifica's parks and landscapes with recycled water to preserve the potable water supply", said Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region's Planning Officer Michelle Denning.
The NCCWD, the lead agency for the California Environmental Quality Act, prepared a Draft Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration in April 2004 and adopted a Final Initial Study/Reponses to Comments in November 2004. Reclamation would provide Federal funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act of 1992 (Title XVI of Public Law 102-575). Title XVI authorizes a Federal cost share of up to 25-percent of the total project costs, not to exceed $20 million, for approved water recycling projects.
The Draft EA/FONSI were prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, and are available online at: http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=5057 If you encounter problems accessing the documents online, please call 916-978-5100, or email mppublicaffairs@usbr.gov.
Written comments on the Draft EA are due by close of business, Wednesday, March 3, 2010, and should be mailed to Douglas Kleinsmith, Natural Resource Specialist, Bureau of Reclamation, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA 95825, or e-mailed to dkleinsmith@usbr.gov To request a copy of the document, please contact Mr. Kleinsmith at 916-978-5034. For additional information, please contact David White, Title XVI Program Manager, Reclamation, at 916-978-5074 (TTY 916-978-5608).
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