Fort Ord Dunes General Plan

The Marina Coast Water District’s (MCWD) Ord Wastewater Treatment Plant Blight Removal Project (Proposed Project) would involve the demolition of 10 dilapidated structures at a former wastewater treatment plant located on Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) 031-031-001-000 on the former Fort Ord in Monterey County, California. Specifically, the Proposed Project would demolish a chlorine contact basin, revolving drum screen, secondary sedimentation structure, grit tanks and headworks, two (2) digester tanks, a sludge control building, a sludge heater building, and a recirculation pump facility. The Proposed Project would also remove metal and debris from the existing primary sedimentation structure and other areas of the Project site, and abandon existing pipeline infrastructure associated with the proposed demolished structures pursuant to Section 300.19.8 of the MCWD Procedures, Guidelines, and Design Requirements for existing facility provisions. The certified Final Environmental Impact Report (Final EIR) for the Fort Ord Dunes State Park (FODSP) General Plan (State Clearinghouse No. 2003051145) included the analysis of the potential environmental effects that could result from the implementation of future demolition activities within the FODSP. The California Department of Parks and Recreation (State Parks) adopted mitigation measures and certified the Final EIR in September 2004, and implementation of these mitigation measures is required. State Parks did not identify any significant and unavoidable effects through implementation of the FODSP General Plan and applicable mitigation measures. Therefore, the Proposed Project’s potential environmental effects were analyzed in the Final EIR. Mitigation measures adopted as part of the FODSP General Plan EIR that reduce the potentially significant effects associated with the proposed demolition activities to a less-than-significant level will be implemented as part of the Proposed Project. Table 1 includes the applicable mitigation measures for biological resources identified in the Final EIR, and the Biological Resources Report that was prepared for the Proposed Project in accordance with these mitigation measures (ATTACHMENT 2) identifies additional project-specific mitigation measures. Additionally, Table 1 identifies mitigation measures from the Final EIR that are applicable to the Proposed Project that would reduce potentially significant impacts to air quality, cultural resources, exposure to hazards and hazardous materials, and noise that may result from the proposed demolition activities. The demolition activities that would occur under the Proposed Project are not significantly different than those analyzed in the Final EIR. The Final EIR adequately addressed and mitigated all the potential environmental impacts that may result from the Proposed Project. Preparation of a mitigated negative declaration or EIR is not required pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15162. MCWD reviewed the analysis in the Final EIR and determined the Final EIR adequately described, analyzed, and mitigated the Proposed Project, and, therefore, no further CEQA analysis is necessary