BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
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Adopt a Resolution Adopting the Final Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program and Approve the Tularcitos Creek Downstream North Hillview Drive Levee Repair Project, Under the Watersheds Operations and Maintenance Division, Project No. 62761028.
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RECOMMENDATION: Recommendation
Consider the environmental effects of the Tularcitos Creek Downstream North Hillview Drive Levee Repair Project as discussed in the Final Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration;
Adopt the Resolution ADOPTING THE FINAL INITIAL STUDY AND MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION AND THE MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM FOR THE TULARCITOS CREEK DOWNSTREAM NORTH HILLVIEW DRIVE LEVEE REPAIR PROJECT; and
Approve the Project.
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SUMMARY:
Background and Project Description
Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) is responsible for operations and maintenance of Tularcitos Creek, a tributary within the Lower Penitencia Creek watershed, which ultimately drains to Coyote Creek and San Francisco Bay. The Project would involve reconstruction of a non-accredited levee that has eroded due to rodent activity along the west bank of Tularcitos Creek in the City of Milpitas.
Stream maintenance activities, such as vegetation management and bank stabilization, are programmatically covered throughout Valley Water jurisdiction and implemented under Valley Water’s Stream Maintenance Program (SMP) However, because the total length of levee repair (approximately 2,932 LF) exceeds the 500-LF bank stabilization threshold under the SMP and its associated Final Subsequent EIR, the Project does not qualify for programmatic coverage under the SMP.
The Project would repair approximately 2,932 LF of the existing levee using SMP-3 Method 1A, which involves installation of a buried rock structure (rock but...
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