55A - SAN LORENZO SEWER LIFT STATION

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Mr. Robert Silverstein, Esq. 0 0 Review Of The Recirculated DEIR And FEIR For The San Lorenzo Sewer Lift Station Project January 12, 2012 Page 11 of 18 The RDEIR notes that construction of a pump station at this site would result in a deficit of five parking spaces after the project is completed. A deficit of five parking spaces out of the 401 required parking spaces is only slightly over one percent and seems trivial. 5.4.9 ALTERNATIVE E No. 7 Alternative Site No. 7 is in the northeast comer of the same parking lot at 2840 South Bristol Street as Alternative Site No. 6. The RDEIR assumes that the pump station will be located in the northwest portion of the parking lot, claiming that this would result in less impact on traffic and transportation. The basis of this claim is not stated. The RDEIR concedes that the use of Site No. 7 would reduce the length of the underground sewer conveyance infrastructure by 77 percent. The reduction would be even greater if the pump station is located closer to the northeast corner of the parking lot. Location of the pump station a short distance away from South Bristol Street would allow all of the pump station construction activities to be in the parking lot and thus would result in no impact on traffic and transportation from the construction of the pump station. By contrast, construction of the pump station in the proposed project would reduce West Segerstrom Avenue to a single eastbound lane for 25 weeks. Site No. 7 would also avoid any construction at all in the intersection of South Bristol Street and West Segerstrom Avenue. These two factors would result in an enormous decrease in the impact on traffic and transportation. The RDEIR includes a long description of how difficult it will be to construct a sewer and force main in South Bristol Street. This argument is specious. The sewer and force main could in fact cross perpendicular to South Bristol Street and thus not run parallel to South Bristol Street. The gravity sewer is much deeper than all of the other utilities and thus would not conflict with them. The force main is a pressure pipe and does not have to slope continuously downward like a gravity sewer. It therefore can easily be snaked through the existing utilities. Although the RDEIR waxes eloquent about the difficulty of constructing a longitudinal sewer and force main in South Bristol Street, it fails to note that the proposed project includes 190 -feet of longitudinal sewer in South Bristol Street, Alternative Site No. 7 could totally avoid what the RDEIR describes as great difficulties. A;L"W1OfJ