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Residents urge SAFCA to pause Contract 3B; call for bioengineering alternatives to riprap
Summary
Dozens of residents asked SAFCA on April 17 to press the Army Corps to pause Contract 3B of the American River Common Features Project and to analyze bioengineering alternatives rather than the Corps’ proposed riprap work.
Dozens of residents, environmental scientists and local advocates told the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA) on April 17 that the Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed erosion-control plan for the Lower American River (Contract 3B) would devastate parkway habitat and fail to consider feasible nature-based alternatives.
Bill Bratton, a retired California water-resource control engineer who lives near the Contract 3B area, said the environmental analyses for the project lack a reasonable range of alternatives required under NEPA and CEQA. “CEQA and NEPA require multiple alternatives,” Bratton said, and he told the board he had asked the Army Corps to remove Contract 3B from the current environmental document so other, uncontested projects could move forward.
The commentary continued with specific concerns about the extent of proposed vegetation removal. Nancy Niskern said the Army Corps’ final environmental document included only a riprap alternative and omitted…
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