[env-trinity] Lewiston-Dark Gulch Rehabilitation Project

[Byron]

Bureau of Reclamation News Release 

Notice of Preparation Available and Scoping Meeting Scheduled for the
Lewiston-Dark Gulch Rehabilitation Project

Media Contact:

Jeffrey McCracken
916-978-5100

Released On: April 30, 2007

 

Under guidance of the Trinity River Restoration Program (TRRP), the Bureau
of Reclamation, Federal lead agency, and the Trinity County Resource
Conservation District, State lead agency, announce the availability of a
Notice of Preparation (NOP) for a Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
and Environmental Assessment (EA) for the "Lewiston-Dark Gulch
Rehabilitation Project.  The Draft EIR/EA will be a joint document prepared
to meet the National Environmental Policy Act and California Environmental
Quality Act requirements. 

 

The Lewiston-Dark Gulch Rehabilitation Project is located along
approximately 6.3 miles of the Trinity River upstream of the New Bridge on
Trinity Dam Blvd.  This project is one of several already implemented
channel rehabilitation efforts and one of many planned for the next five
years which will help enhance river processes and increase fisheries habitat
downstream of Lewiston Dam, as described in the December 19, 2000, Record of
Decision for the Trinity River Mainstem Fishery Restoration Environmental
Impact Statement.

 

A 30-day public scoping period will be held Tuesday, May 1 to Thursday, May
31, 2007, to elicit comments on the range of actions, alternatives,
mitigation measures, and significant effects to be analyzed in the Draft
EIR/EA. 

 

A public scoping meeting will be held on

Tuesday, May 15, 2007
6:30 p.m.
Lewiston Community Center, 
302 Texas Avenue, Lewiston, CA 96052
Map
<http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=302+Texas+Avenue&csz=Lewiston%2C+CA&
country=us&new=1&name=&qty=>  

 

Project information will be presented and comments on the scope of the Draft
EIR/EA will be accepted.  The NOP and future project information is also
available at:
http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=2697.

 

For further information or to receive a copy of the NOP, please contact Mr.
Brandt Gutermuth, Bureau of Reclamation, at 530-623-1806 or Mark Dowdle at
Trinity County Restoration Conservation District, at 530-623-6004.  Written
comments may be sent to Mr. Gutermuth, Trinity River Restoration Program,
P.O. Box 1300, Weaverville, CA  96093, or e-mail bgutermuth at mp.usbr.gov or
Mr. Dowdle, Trinity County RCD, P.O. Box 1450, Weaverville, CA 96093, or
e-mail mdowdle at tcrcd.net.# <mailto:mdowdle at tcrcd.net.> 

http://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=16741

 

 

Byron Leydecker

Friends of Trinity River, Chair

California Trout, Inc., Advisor

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810

415 383 9562 fax

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org (secondary)

http://www.fotr.org

http://www.caltrout.org

 

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