UBLIC HEARING: Director of Development ... - City of Glendale

Woodward-Clyde
Engineering & sciences applied 10 Ihe earth & its environment
April 3, 1996
Project No. 9553164U
BY FEDERAL EXPRESS
California Department of Fish and Game
530 East Montecito Street, Room 104
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
805-568-1227
Attention: Ken Wilson
REQUEST FOR CONFIRMATION OF
DETERMINATION OF NON-JURISDICTION
Dear Mr. Wilson:
This letter is to request that the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) review
the following information and advise us whether you concur with our determination that the
CDFG does not have jurisdiction over the following proposed project.
The subject property is the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ("DWP") Crystal
Springs Maintenance Yard, located at 1000 Flower Street, Glendale, California (the
"Property"). (Enclosed as Figure 1 is a site map.) Currently, the Property is being
considered for development of a low rise office complex. If developed, it is anticipated
that the Property will have to be regraded because of the bearing capacity of the soils.
There is a topographical condition on the Property that will be impacted by regrading.
The topographical condition is a low area running east-west in the southern portion of the
Property. This low area ranges in size from approximately 20 to 60 feet in width and 2 to
10 feet in depth, and extends from the eastern boundary of the Property to the boundary of
the channelized Los Angeles River, which is adjacent to the Property. Portions of the low
area are lined with concrete. It is our understanding that, when the Property is regraded,
this low area will be regraded.
On December 1, 1995, Woodward-Clyde evaluated the topographical condition and
performed a jurisdictional delineation of waters of the United States and CDFG jurisdiction
at the Property to determine if wetlands or other waters of the United States were present
based on methodology described in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) 1987
manual and CDFG guidelines. For the following reasons, Woodward-Clyde determined
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