Friends of Lagoon Valley
735 Brookside Drive
Vacaville , California 95688

October 21, 2007

Solano County Water Agency
P.O. Box 349
Elmira , California 95625

Greetings!

I am writing in response to your long-awaited and recently-released document, Ulatis System Drainage Study or Flood Management Options Report.   

It appears that your consultants have completely ignored the issue of proposed subdivision development in Lagoon Valley along with the resulting increase in impervious surface space and resultant runoff into Laguna Creek --> Alamo Creek --> South Vacaville .

The West Yost report includes only passing mention of Lagoon Valley and no mention of the proposed subdivision.  It includes a large number of photos of flooded Vacaville neighborhoods but no photos of the flooding in Lagoon Valley , although we know such photos exist.  We can provide some if you want.

You propose a flood detention basin along Laguna Creek in Cherry Glen but totally ignore the fact that increased runoff from Lagoon Valley enters Laguna Creek after it has passed that point.

You even suggest the possibility of removing homes along Alamo Creek in order to widen the creek channel to increase its capacity as it flows through South Vacaville, while totally ignoring the addition of 1025 homes plus a business village in the watershed upstream from  South Vacaville .

You make no reference to the EIP Associates Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Triad/Standard Pacific subdivision, although Ch. 4.11 of the DEIR includes extensive discussion of runoff from that project, calling it a potentially significant impact of the development (emphasis theirs, not mine!)

No one I know gives serious credence to the developers’ claims that flooding the golf course during a storm will actually reduce runoff from the Valley after a  subdivision is built.

Perhaps if issues of runoff and flooding had been adequately considered when South Vacaville was being developed, we wouldn’t have regular flooding there now. 

On behalf of the Friends of Lagoon Valley I ask that you give serious consider­ation to the runoff and flood-related impacts of a large subdivision in the Lower Lagoon Valley .

Thank you.

Yours truly,

Marian Conning

Friends of Lagoon Valley

 

cc: 

Marc Fugler, Project Manager
US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District
Delta Office
1325 J Street , Room 1480
Sacramento , California 95814-2922
Re: Public Notice 200300760

Del Berg
Ranchotel Horse Center
P.O. Box 6
Vacaville , California 95696

 

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