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12.4 Groups Groups 12.4 12.4 Groups Groups 12.4 GROUPS GROUPS THAT SUBMITTED COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT PEIR Comment Letter Comment Letter Name of Organization/ Format ID Commenter Title Affiliation Page Email SI_ACA1 Jeff Miller Director Alameda Creek Alliance 12.4-1 PH Fremont SI_ACA2 Jeff Miller Director Alameda Creek Alliance 12.6-52 David T. Smernoff, Board Acterra: Action for a Email SI_ACT 12.4-12 Ph.D. Vice President Sustainable Earth Citizens Advisory Email SI_CAC1 Steve Lawrence Vice Chair 12.4-13 Committee to the SFPUC Citizens Advisory Email SI_CAC2 Steve Lawrence Vice Chair 12.4-13 Committee to the SFPUC Chief Executive Mail SI_Caltrout Brian Stranko California Trout 12.4-14 Officer Republicans for Environmental Buddy Burke / CA REP President & Protection, Protection Email SI_CAREP Virginia Chang CA REP Vice 12.4-14 Commissioner, California Kiraly President Commission for Economic Development PH Palo Alto SI_CI Katherine Forrest Member Commonwealth Institute 12.6-77 California Native Plant Mail SI_CNPS Amanda Jorgenson Executive Director 12.4-15 Society California Native Plant Conservation Email SI_CNPS-EB1 Laura Baker Society, East Bay 12.4-15 Committee Chair Chapter California Native Plant PH Fremont SI_CNPS-EB2 Lech Naumovich Society, East Bay 12.6-56 Chapter California Native Plant President, Santa Email SI_CNPS-SCV1 Kevin Bryant Society, Santa Clara 12.4-33 Clara Valley Chapter Valley Chapter California Native Plant Mail SI_CNPS-SCV2 Libby Lucas Conservation Society, Santa Clara 12.4-36 Valley Chapter SF Planning Department Case No. 2005.0159E 12.4-i PEIR on SFPUC Water System Improvement Program / 203287 12. Comment Letters 12.4 Groups GROUPS THAT SUBMITTED COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT PEIR (Continued) Comment Letter Comment Letter Name of Organization/ Format ID Commenter Title Affiliation Page California Native Plant Conservation Email SI_CNPS-WLJ Tedmund Swiecki Society, Willis Jepson 12.4-38 Committee Co-Chair Chapter Director Clean Meredith Wingate / Energy Policy Design Center for Resource Email SI_CRS 12.4-38 Brad Drda and Implementation Solutions Program Central Sierra Email SI_CSERC Brenda Whited Staff Biology Environmental Resource 12.4-40 Center Email SI_CWA1 Jennifer Clary Water Policy Analyst Clean Water Action 12.4-40 PH SF1 SI_CWA2 Jennifer Clary Water Policy Analyst Clean Water Action 12.6-92 District 3 Democratic Mail SI_D3Dem1 Tony Gantner President 12.4-41 Club District 3 Democratic PH SF1 SI_D3Dem2 Tony Gantner President 12.6-88 Club Mail SI_EcoCtr Martin Bourque Executive Director Ecology Center 12.4-41 Email SI_EnvDef Spreck Rosekrans Senior Analyst Environmental Defense 12.4-42 Mail SI_Greenp Krikor Didonian Greenpeace 12.4-47 Golden West Women Email SI_GWWF1 Cindy Charles Conservation Chair 12.4-48 Flyfishers Golden West Women PH SF1 SI_GWWF2 Cindy Charles Chairperson 12.6-89 Flyfishers Klamath-Siskiyou Email SI_KSWC Joseph Vaile Campaign Director 12.4-48 Wildlands Center Menlo Business Park Mail SI_MenloBP J. Wesley Skow Attorney LLC (on behalf of by 12.4-49 DLA Piper US LLP) NCCFFF Steelhead Email SI_NCFFSC Dougald Scott Chair 12.4-51 Committee Email SI_PacInst Peter Gleick President Pacific Institute 12.4-53 Pilarcitos Creek Email SI_PilarCrk Tim Frahm Chair 12.4-78 Advisory Committee Restore Hetch Hetchy; Board Email SI_RHH1 Jerry Cadagan Committee to Save Lake 12.4-79 Member/Founder Merced SF Planning Department Case No. 2005.0159E 12.4-ii PEIR on SFPUC Water System Improvement Program / 203287 12. Comment Letters 12.4 Groups GROUPS THAT SUBMITTED COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT PEIR (Continued) Comment Letter Comment Letter Name of Organization/ Format ID Commenter Title Affiliation Page Hand- Tech/Engineering SI_RHH2 Bob Hackamack Restore Hetch Hetchy 12.4-82 delivered, PH Chair Tech/Engineering 12.6-11 PH Sonora SI_RHH3 Bob Hackamack Restore Hetch Hetchy Chair 12.6-23 Restore Hetch Hetchy; Board 12.6-12 PH Sonora SI_RHH4 Jerry Cadagan Committee to Save Lake Member/Founder 12.6-24 Merced Santa Clara County Email SI_SCCCC Mondy Lariz 12.4-82 Creeks Coalition Coalition for San PH SF1 SI_SFNeigh Joan Girardot Francisco 12.6-96 Neighborhoods Sierra Club, Tuolumne Mail SI_SierraC1 Blaine Rogers 12.4-83 Group PH Modesto SI_SierraC2 Sandra Wilson Chair Sierra Club 12.6-41 PH Palo Alto SI_SierraC3 Bill Young Member Sierra Club 12.6-67 Richard PH Palo Alto SI_SierraC4 Member Sierra Club 12.6-68 Zimmerman PH SF1 SI_SierraC5 Gwynn MacKellen Member Sierra Club 12.6-88 Executive Sierra Club, San PH SF1 SI_SierraC6 John Rizzo 12.6-95 Committee Member Francisco Bay Chapter Executive Sierra Club, San PH SF2 SI_SierraC7 John Rizzo 12.6-127 Committee Member Francisco Bay Chapter Sustainable San Francisco Planning Mail SI_SPUR Laura Tam Development Policy and Urban Research 12.4-83 Director Association Mail SI_SWC Terry Erlewine General Manager State Water Contractors 12.4-85 Tuolumne County Farm PH Sonora SI_TCFB Stan Kellogg President 12.6-5 Bureau Tuolumne River Email SI_TROA Stephen Welch President 12.4-86 Outfitters Association Email SI_TRT1 Amy Meyer Founding Member Tuolumne River Trust 12.4-88 Sierra Nevada PH Sonora SI_TRT2 Cynthia King Tuolumne River Trust 12.6- Program Director PH Sonora SI_TRT3 Galen Weston Part-time Employee Tuolumne River Trust 12.6-13 SF Planning Department Case No. 2005.0159E 12.4-iii PEIR on SFPUC Water System Improvement Program / 203287 12. Comment Letters 12.4 Groups GROUPS THAT SUBMITTED COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT PEIR (Continued) Comment Letter Comment Letter Name of Organization/ Format ID Commenter Title Affiliation Page Director of PH Community SI_TRT4 Meg Gonzalez Tuolumne River Trust 12.6-32 Modesto Outreach and Education PH Central Valley SI_TRT5 Patrick Koepele Tuolumne River Trust 12.6-36 Modesto Program Director PH Modesto SI_TRT6 Eric Wesselman Executive Director Tuolumne River Trust 12.6-38 PH Fremont SI_TRT7 Eric Wesselman Executive Director Tuolumne River Trust 12.6-49 Bay Area Program PH Palo Alto SI_TRT8 Peter Drekmeier Tuolumne River Trust 12.6-64 Director PH SF1 SI_TRT9 Eric Wesselman Executive Director Tuolumne River Trust 12.6-91 Bay Area Program PH SF2 SI_TRT10 Peter Drekmeier Tuolumne River Trust 12.6-124 Director Peter Drekmeier, Tuolumne River Trust, SI_TRT-CWA- Mail Jennifer Clary, Clean Water Action, 12.4-89 SierraC John Rizzo Sierra Club SF Planning Department Case No. 2005.0159E 12.4-iv PEIR on SFPUC Water System Improvement Program / 203287 SI_ACA1 SI_ACA1 03 winter and spring stream flows from upper Alameda Creek at this dam is unacceptable. It cont. Alameda Creek Alliance is inconceivable that the Calaveras Dam replacement, a major infrastructure project that PO Box 192 • Canyon, CA • 94516 • (510) 499-9185 should address and remedy the impacts of the dam on Alameda Creek fisheries, does not 04 e-mail: [email protected] include adequate minimum flows for anadromous fish nor mitigations commensurate web site: http://www.alamedacreek.org with the impacts of the operation of the dam. Sent via e-mail to [email protected] on October 1, 2007 With other agencies planning fish passage projects in lower Alameda Creek that could allow steelhead trout and chinook salmon to return to the upper watershed by 2010 October 1, 2007 (before construction of Calaveras Dam is complete), we are extremely disappointed that 05 the WSIP does not include planning, environmental benefits and adequate mitigations for San Francisco Planning Department sustaining steelhead and salmon in Alameda Creek. Attention: Paul Maltzer Environmental Review Officer, WSIP PEIR The ACA has made every effort since 2001 to communicate our concerns and 30 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 4150 suggestions regarding the SFPUC's Sunol Valley projects with potentially significant San Francisco, CA 94103 impacts to the fisheries of Alameda Creek, to every level of the SFPUC, at numerous Alameda Creek Alliance Comments on WSIP Draft PEIR public forums and meetings, and in numerous written comments. In 2005, 68 Bay Area conservation groups called on the SFPUC to improve its stewardship of local and 06 regional watershed lands, specifically asking the SFPUC to restore stream flows in Attached are the comments of the Alameda Creek Alliance (ACA) on the Draft Program Alameda Creek sufficient to sustain steelhead and rainbow trout, protect rare fish Environmental Impact Report (DPEIR) for the SFPUC’s Water System Improvement populations in SFPUC reservoirs, remove the Alameda Diversion Dam, and abandon Program (WSIP). The ACA is a community watershed group dedicated to the protection plans to construct a controversial dam as part of the Fishery Enhancement Project. and restoration of the natural ecosystems of the Alameda Creek watershed. The ACA has 12.4-1 over 1,450 members that live in or near the Alameda Creek watershed. The ACA has The public expects the SFPUC to operate a water system that adequately protects and been working to restore steelhead trout and salmon to Alameda Creek and to protect restores the watersheds and wildlife habitats under the SFPUC’s management. The WSIP endangered species in the Alameda Creek watershed since 1997. should reflect this stewardship obligation and the PEIR should adequately analyze and 07 mitigate for reasonably foreseeable significant impacts to all special-status species and The ACA supports the SFPUC’s efforts to make needed repairs and earthquake safety rare habitats. retrofits to its water system, however we also expect the rebuilt water system infrastructure in the Sunol Valley (including Calaveras Dam and Reservoir, Alameda Sincerely, Diversion Dam, and San Antonio Reservoir)
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