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US EPA AND WATER BOARD
WEIGH IN ONCE MORE ON PALOS COLORADOS AND ASK
THAT THE GOLF COURSE BE REMOVED

Yet again the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Regional Water Quality Control Board have stated their objections to the proposed Palos Colorados project. In a letter dated January 3, 2006, the Regional Water Quality Control Board wrote:

“Water Board staff continues to have significant concerns regarding the Project’s potential to directly and indirectly impact Coyote Gulch, Laguna Creek, and on-site seasonal wetlands….The Project has the potential to cause landscape instability, degradation of water quality, alteration of water drainage patterns, and impacts to wildlife habitat for rare and endangered species…..[W]e believe that the Project as proposed with the golf course would likely result in violation of State water quality standards. ”

Similarly, in a letter dated December 21, 2005, the US EPA wrote, “…we continue to believe that the project’s golf course will result in significant, long-term, adverse impacts to wildlife habitats in Coyote Gulch and will threaten surface water quality there and offsite.”

In light of the tremendous outpouring of public concern expressed to these and other agencies regarding the project in general, and golf course in particular, it is becoming difficult to see how this project will be allowed to go forward unless the golf course is removed.