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Home My WebLink AboutM AND T RANCH COPY OF MAP PROVIDED BY APPELLANT, RON JONESuTrF TER OFFICE 1EMORANDUM 0 ° C Nay TO: Board of Supervisors Brian Haddix, CAO Bruce Alpert, Co. Counsel Pete Calarco, DDS ! Administrative Office Phone: 538-7631 FROM: Kathleen Moghannam, Associate Clerk of the BoarFax: 538-7120 SUBJECT: M & T Ranch/Copy of map provided by appellant, lo, Jones DATE: December 10, 2007 Attached please find correspondence from Mr. Ron Jones and a copy of the map that he presented at the November 6, 2007 Board meeting. BUTTE COUNTY DEC 12 2007 (DEVELOPMENT SERVICES BOARD OF SUPERVISORS November 8, 2007 nrr 7 2007 Y OROVII_LE, CALIFORNIA To: Kathleen Moghannam From: Ron & Sandy Jones Enclosed are the documents that we forgot to leave at the supervisors' meeting on Tuesday, November 6. There are eight copies — one for each supervisor as well as a copy for other county personnel. as you requested. Thank you, J t�` ,y t y BOARD OF SUPERVISORS • DEC U 7 2007 OROVILLE, CALIFORNIA November 10, 2007 To Board of Supervisors Members: When I gave my talk at the meeting on November 6"', I intended to give each one of you these copies but I forgot to leave them. The map is a copy of the slide I used during my talk to show where the proposed bypass channel would be in relation to the existing 18" PG&E gas mainline. I'm also enclosing a copy of the information I presented in my talk. Please note at the, bottom of that page is the name and phone number of the PG&E representative who gave me the information about the gas mainline.. Thank you, Ron Jones 3203 Hudson Avenue Chico, CA 95973 345-4286 , ronsano@pacbell.net 4 y . �. .'. � ,`�, � l .Jilin j � � f�'!.� � ; •�. - (• 'fir. A•. W: , • .ti I iI, i,l I I GAS LINE. _---1---- �•I , __— — GAS 'WELL The red line indicates the approximate location of the �, ►'�� II 1 + ` 18" PG&E natural gas mainline. }` L OW-LEVEE WL (SEE NOTE 14- RESIDENCE :RESIDENCE , , '' ;� %• j' ;' ``z{ UFFER =PLUS— • j' p�r�s'� i` ALLOW WETLAND � ,i ,..i i r J •i. � ' .-,Heddwaters for the Bypass channel INSET. EXHIBIT 3 NESTING ISLAND a I, } t 111 'FTkLDS- . + .• •ar r • ..ray it �,. r `� 9... ..� '- `,'„' 14000 �tj r B YPA SS CHAJYNUJ. I, (SEL' NOTE 1:) v . 25' B UFFER r r November 6, 2007 Members of the Board of Supervisors: There are so many inaccuracies, false statements, and misrepresentations in the reclamation plan and EIR. I would like to point out just a few of these. Just last week I sat down and looked at the latest and greatest drawing of the proposed mine site. In looking at this you would say oh, there is a gas well here and the map shows a pipe line going from the gas well this direction right under where the processing area would be. Well, by just looking at this reclamation map I can assure you what I have just described here does not accurately represent what is really happening out here. First of all, this is not a gas well. This is an odorizing station. When natural gas comes out of the ground it has no smell and if you had a leak in your home you wouldn't know so this is where they put something in the gas so you can smell it. There is an 18 -inch — we're talking huge here — an18-inch natural gas pipeline that goes right through our field here, it goes out into the M&T here, and then it turns and heads north to the odorizing station and then continues on north. This is PG&E's main gas line that runs north and south in the state. This pipeline goes clear up into Canada and this line across here is what supplies Chico with natural gas. Now, how could you do a detailed review of a project like this and not even realize that there was a gas line that big going right through the project site? How could that not show up on any of the maps and how could there not be any discussion of this at all in the EIR or reclamation plan? What is significant about this pipeline being here? Well, they want to put a bypass channel 15 feet from our property line right along here and they want to put the headwaters for the bypass channel here. When we wanted to plant some trees in this field, PG&E came out and told us where the pipeline was and, in so doing, we found out that all the way across this field it was only about 40 inches down to the top of the pipeline. Ok — let's see. They want to put this bypass channel over the top of this natural gas line. They want to make the bypass channel four feet deep, but this pipe is only down 40 inches. That, my friends, is not going to work. I'm not saying that they couldn't put the bypass channel here, but it is going to be an involved process, and 1 think that this pipeline should have been at least noted and discussed in the reclamation plan and it should have shown up on this reclamation map. This is just another in a long list of serious and very significant deficiencies in this reclamation plan. Thank you for your time. Ron Jones If you have any questions about this natural gas mainline, I talked to Joe Villalpando at PG&E and the phone number there is 894-4749. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ADMINISTRATION CENTER 25 COUNTY CENTER DRIVE - OROVILLE, CALIFORNIA 95965 TELEPHONE: (530) 538-7224 March 8, 2007 Howard N. Ellman Ellman Burke Hoffinan &Johnson 601 California Street, 19' Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 RE: Public Hearing - M & T Gravel Mine MIN 96-03 Mr Ellman: BILL CONNELLY First District JANE DOLAN, CHAIR Second District MAUREEN KIRK Third District CURT JOSIASSEN Fourth District KIM YAMAGUCHI Fifth. District COPY This letter is to -inform you that there has been a change of the time for the public hearing before the Board of Supervisors. The above -referenced matter has been set for Tuesday. April 24, 2007 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be conducted in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County, Administration Building, 25 County Center Drive, Oroville. Please note that if you plan to submit information during the course of your hearing, you will need to provide 8 copies of each item you are submitting. Also, please be aware that any information submitted during the course of the hearing, including photographs, maps, video tapes, audio tapes, or written material, will become part of the public record for that matter and will be retained by the Board.. If you have any questions or concerns, please,,do not hesitate to contact me at 530-538-7643. Thank you. Sinc , K e n MogMannam ssociate Clerk of the Board /km: x r I cc: Development Services""� �i•`,ai. BUTTE COUNTY MAR 2 3 2007 DEVELOPMENT SERVICES Butte County Department of Development Seririces �XQT ' TIM SNELLINGS; DIRECTOR I PETE CALARCO, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR 10 0 7 County Center Drive" ' r ` . - ° ,~Oroville, CA 95965 ?' • i ° _�' ° (530) 538-7601 Telephone ' , (+ •� (530)-538-7785 Facsimile www.buttecounty.bet ' ADMINISTRATION * BUILDING * PLANNING November, 17, 2006'. . LR Dear Planning Commissioners•and Area Libraries: r• The ,enclosed docurrients are being provided to,.you as described in .the, attached public notice regarding the M&T Chico Ranch Mine. , A public -hearing, before the Butte County'Planning. Commission on.the project will be ? - -held November 30, 20106 -at 1:30 pm_ in the Butte County_Board of.Supervisors'Room, County Administration Center, `25 County Center Drive,Oroville, Califo'rn'ia,._ Documents enclosed are: - Draft Environmental Impact Repori dated September, 2002 _ ■ ' Final Environmental Impact Report Response to Comments ,dated `. • October;" 2003 including Revised - Response •'to Comments dated *November, 2006 Reclamation Plan dated September, 2004 and updated November,, 2006. Should "you have any ;questions regarding these, documents, please call' Pete Calarco;' , • Assistant Directoi or Cl uck Thistlethwaite,-Planning Manager; at 530-538-7785. '; $� BOARD OF SUPERVISORS BILL CONNELLY eo@: First District ' ADMINISTRATION CENTER JANE DOLAN, CHAIR Second District ..,court 25 COUNTY CENTER DRIVE,- OROVILLE, CALIFORNIA 95965 TELEPHONE: (530) 538-7224 MAUREEN KIRK Third District CURT JOSIASSEN Fourth District KIM YAMAGUCHI Fifth District March 8, 2007 'Ronald Jones, et al' 3203 Hudson Avenue (Cap Chico, CA 95973 RE: Public Hearing - M & T Gravel Mine MIN 96-03 Mr Jones: This letter is to inform you that there has been a change of the time for the public hearing before the Board of Supervisors. The above -referenced matter has been set for Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be conducted in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Administration Building, 25 County Center Drive, Oroville. Please note that if you plan to submit information during the course of your hearing, you will need to provide 8 copies of each item you are submitting. Also, please be aware that any information submitted during the course of the' hearing, including photographs, maps, video tapes, audio tapes, or written material, will become part of the public record for that matter and will be retained by the Board. If you have any questions or concerns, ple a do not hesitate to contact meat 530-538-7643. -Thank you. Sinc. y, Kathleen M ghannam Xssociate Clerk of the Boar /km t r 7A J cc: Development Services - " BUTTE COUNTY PEAR 2 3 2007 DEVELOPMENT SERVICES