SAVE LAKE CHABOT ROAD
Grassroots effort led by concerned neighbors in San Leandro, Castro Valley, Oakland, and the East Bay.
Updates
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council (CVMAC) meeting on Monday, May 15th. For those who were unable to make it, we had approximately 75 people show up. We filled the room.
The meeting could not have gone better. EBMUD Director April Chan gave an update on the Quarry project and spoke against it. Former EBMUD Director Frank Mellon also attended the meeting and spoke vehemently against the Quarry project and told the CVMAC that EBMUD staff brings back projects that the EBMUD Board thinks are dead. Not only do we need to make sure the Quarry project is terminated, we also need to make sure that if staff ever intends to resurrect the project for
consideration in any form, it must first come back to the Board for approval.
Everyone from our coalition who spoke did a great job! Thank you so much!! We are so effective together! Those who came and did not speak were just as important. There is strength in numbers!!
At the end, the CVMAC President asked staff to place the EBMUD Quarry project on a future agenda so that we can provide more information on why
it should be terminated. We will ask the CVMAC to officially join us in urging EBMUD to terminate the project. If successful, we would have both the City of San Leandro and Castro Valley opposing the project!
Please stay tuned for the next Castro Valley MAC meeting where the Quarry Project will be on the agenda. It will be critical for us all to attend! Thank you so much for all your support!
what is
#SAVELAKE
CHABOTROAD
EBMUD (East Bay Municipal Utility District) has applied for a conditional use permit (CUP) from Alameda County to allow the deposit of trench soil extracted from pipeline repair and construction into the quarry site located at 13575 Lake Chabot Road. Dump trucks would carry the extracted trench soil on I-880 to I-238 to I-580 West to the Estudillo Avenue exit, then up Lake Chabot Road to the quarry site. Trucks would exit the quarry site towards Castro Valley and take Fairmont Avenue back to I-580 East.
EBMUD estimates that there will be 60–100 dump trucks per day, five days a week on Lake Chabot Road for the next 40–80 years (this is not a typo), with trucks entering and exiting the site and traveling on Estudillo Avenue and Lake Chabot Road every four or five minutes.
SIGN THE PETITION TO
SAVE LAKE CHABOT ROAD
We, the undersigned, request that the San Leandro City Council and Alameda County Board of Supervisors oppose the EBMUD Quarry Site Restoration Project.
Especially in light of the recent landslides and temporary closure of Lake Chabot Road, we urge EBMUD to withdraw this application and find another site for their project. Failing that, we urge the San Leandro City Council and Alameda County Board of Supervisors to oppose this project because:
- It will destroy Lake Chabot Road, an already precarious bicycle route, making the road more dangerous for the 3,500 cars a day that use it as well as for cyclists and pedestrians. It will also become more difficult for San Leandro residents, especially the elderly, to get to Eden Hospital and to medical and other appointments in Castro Valley.
- It will adversely affect traffic conditions on I-880, I-238 and I-580. Whenever those highways are closed, trucks are likely to use Davis Street and other streets in San Leandro, worsening traffic conditions.
- The quarry site is located directly over two traces of the Hayward fault and is subject to high winds as well as possible flooding. In a major seismic event, there would be risk of liquefaction and collapse of the hillside, with possible consequences for the City and the County. Several San Leandro homes have recently been destroyed when geologically and seismically unstable hillsides collapsed.
- EBMUD proposes to start the infill on the San Leandro-facing hillside, within 100 feet of homes located in Bay-O-Vista, creating an ongoing construction site for the next 10–20 years and using the remainder of the quarry site for infill for as long as 80 years.
- Noise, dust, and traffic congestion, with consequential health issues, will substantially impact the quality of life in San Leandro neighborhoods and could substantially reduce property tax revenue if property values decline as a consequence.
- Instead of the open space hillside that abuts the scenic Lake Chabot Regional Park/Fairmont Ridge, San Leandro residents will face a noisy construction site for up to 10–20 years.
- EBMUD has temporary stockpile sites and alternate permanent disposal facilities.
Please join us in opposing this project by filling out the form below.
Number of Petition Signatures
1700
More Details about
EBMUD Quarry Project
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For more information about the EBMUD project affecting San Leandro and Castro Valley, view the EBMUD Project Resource Page (link below) and watch the Quarry Site Presentation video. The Quarry Site Presentation is a recording of an EBMUD public meeting regarding its plan to use the quarry space behind upper Lakeview Drive for placement of clean pipeline trench soils and restoration.
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