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4. Plan Overview
Plan Area-wide,
where appropriate
Table 4-3
Facility Summary Update
Projects Completed
since FY 2009-2010
Wind warning light upgrades
Solar gates at four entrance areas
None
Future Planned Projects
San Luis Creek
Medeiros
Water treatment plant and lift station
upgrades at group and day use areas
Completion of ADA updates to three
new vault toilets
Install an ADA fishing pier near the
boat ramp area
Upgrade boat ramp
None
Basalt Water treatment plant upgrade Launch ramp
Dinosaur Point None Launch ramp parking area upgrades
Los Banos Creek New replacement water tanks None
Four new ADA day-use picnic sites
O’Neill Forebay
Installation of one new wind warning
light tower and light
ADA trail improvements
None
Source: CSP Four Rivers Sector 2012.
Table 4-2 attempts to quantify the approximate number of visitors that can be
accommodated at any one time at each use area (see the Total for each use area
under “Existing Facilities”). As monthly attendance figures by use area are not
available for recent fiscal years, it is not possible to quantify when and how often
capacity is exceeded. However, a 2008 survey of CSP staff provided the
following capacity recommendations (Aukerman, Haas, and Schuster 2008):
• San Luis Reservoir – Increase opportunities for boat mooring and boat
rentals; add group camping and day use facilities.
• O’Neill Forebay – Increase group camping capacity, add launch facility,
add restroom at Medeiros Use Area; to accommodate high levels of
visitation on holiday weekends, add day use sites and parking.
• Los Banos Creek Reservoir – Add camping and day use facilities to
accommodate high levels of visitation on holiday weekends.
Insufficient data exists to precisely quantify other parameters such as ecological
or social capacity. However, the goals and guidelines outlined in Section 4.2
provide qualitative parameters for attaining the desired natural and cultural
resource conditions, visitor experiences, and management efforts that are
compatible with the existing and maximum future capacity of the Plan Area.
Part of Plan implementation will be to gather more information about visitor
demographics and facility use as well as natural and cultural resource capacity.
This will serve to create a more thorough baseline from which to verify if the
proposed uses and facilities in this Plan are meeting the desired future conditions
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