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MEMORANDUM
TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Philip B. Moy, Water Resources Department Director
DATE: January 2, 2018
SUBJECT: Consideration of the request that all involved County departments expedite the permitting process for the emergency placement of a stone rubble wall at Holiday Island Mobile Home Park.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
This is to advise your Board that a matter of some urgency has arisen. The National Weather Service issued a statement on December 28th that the forecasted weather pattern is changing to wetter and windier conditions. Rising lake levels with concomitant wind-driven waves will place at risk the failure and sliding of the exposed fill at Holiday Island Mobile Home Park where the wooden seawall burned in the Sulphur Fire incident. This poses a potential significant risk to the quality of the drinking water supply for City of Clearlake residents.
Emergency Action Requested: The burned wooden wall shall be replaced with a rubble or rip-rap stone wall. The Corps of Engineers is currently considering the federal permit for the replacement seawall. In order to protect the water quality of the lake, it is critical that the normal County permitting process not impede placement of the proposed rock wall that will contain the fine granular material behind the burned seawall.
The proposed work can take place as an emergency action as defined by Title 14, Chapter 3, Article 18, Section 15269 of CEQA:
15269. Emergency Projects
The following emergency projects are exempt from the requirements of CEQA.
(a) Projects to maintain, repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or facilities damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster in a disaster stricken area in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor pursuant to the California Emergency Services Act, commencing with Section 8550 of the Government Code.
(b) Emergency repairs to publicly or privately owned service facilities necessary to maintain service essential to the public health, safety or welfare.
(c) Specific actions necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency. This does not include long-term projects undertaken for the purpose of preventing or mitigating a situation that has a low probability of occurrence in the short-term.
FISCAL IMPACT: _X_ None __Budgeted __Non-Budgeted
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FISCAL IMPACT (Narrative): None
STAFFING IMPACT (if applicable): None
Recommended Action
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve the request that all involved County departments expedite the permitting process for the emergency placement of a stone rubble wall at Holiday Island Mobile Home Park.