Environmental Impact Statement - Sonoma Land Trust

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California Department of Fish and Game U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Chapter 2. Alternatives Off-Site Alternative The project site is owned by SLT and is a unique opportunity to consider restoration of tidal and other wetlands on diked baylands in Sonoma County. While there are other opportunities for tidal wetland restoration around San Francisco Bay in general, this project site has been identified in long-term planning such as the Baylands Ecosystems Goals Project as a primary opportunity for tidal wetland restoration. Additionally, restoration of the project site provides a unique opportunity to create tidal marsh habitat continuity between Petaluma Marsh, Tolay Creek, and Sonoma Marsh, as well as to provide important dispersal corridor endangered species such as California clapper rail. As such, consideration of tidal wetland restoration at off-site areas is a separate consideration from the current Project and would be in addition to, not instead of consideration of tidal wetland restoration at this site. Nearby restoration projects, such as the Hamilton/Bel Marin Keys Unit V Wetland Restoration Project, the Napa-Sonoma Salt Marsh Restoration Project, the Tolay Creek Restoration Project, the Cullinan Ranch Restoration Project are all evidence of the long-term priority of extensive restoration of tidal and other wetlands around San Pablo Bay to replace the wetlands historically lost due to diking and development over the last 150 years. Given the unique potential of this site and the long-term priority of restoration at this site, an off-site alternative for tidal wetland restoration is not considered further in this document. Sears Point Wetland and Watershed Restoration Project Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement 2-49 April 2012
Chapter 3 Affected Environment and Environmental Consequences Introduction This chapter presents the affected environment and the environmental consequences and mitigation measures of the proposed project. The analysis of environmental consequences is based on the conceptual designs for wetland restoration presented in the previous chapter. Each of the restoration alternatives and the No-Action Alternative are analyzed in terms of the following resource topics: • Section 3.1, Geology, Soils, and Paleontology; • Section 3.2, Surface-Water Hydrology, Tidal Hydraulics, and Sedimentation; • Section 3.3, Water Quality; • Section 3.4, Public Health and Safety; • Section 3.5, Biological Resources; • Section 3.6, Land Use and Public Utilities; • Section 3.7, Agricultural Resources; • Section 3.8, Recreation; • Section 3.9, Hazardous Substances and Waste; • Section 3.10, Traffic and Transportation; • Section 3.11, Air Quality; • Section 3.12, Noise; • Section 3.13, Cultural Resources; and • Section 3.14, Aesthetics. • Section 3.15—Environmental Justice The focus of the analysis of environmental consequences is limited to the determination of whether the restoration alternatives would result in a “significant effect on the environment,” according to CEQA, or would “significantly affect the quality of the human environment,” according to NEPA. Sears Point Wetland and Watershed Restoration Project Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement 3-1 April 2012
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