Yountville Veterans Home Chiller Replacement Project

Yountville Veterans Home Chiller Replacement Project

The proposed project would replace the chiller at the Yountville Veterans Home, which is located in the Boiler Plant/Electric Plant Building, a contributing property to the Yountville Veterans National Register of Historic Places District. The project work will be internal to the building, and would not involve any modifications to the exterior of the historic building. The project would demolish the existing 600-ton absorption chiller, replace it with a new 600-ton absorption chiller, and modify existing piping to accommodate new chiller connections. In addition, the project would modify existing chilled water and condenser water pumps to facilitate balancing of revised systems, perform balancing of chilled water and condenser water pumps to facilitate balancing of revised systems, refurbish existing three-cell cooling tower to include adding basin liner, repairing rust-damaged components, replacing media, and servicing drive assemblies. Although the Boiler Plant Building is a historical resource for purposes of CEQA, all work will take place on the interior of the building, involving features that are not deemed significant, and will be carried out in conformance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. The California Department of Veterans therefore finds that no adverse effect to historic resources will result from the project as proposed. The State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) provided written concurrence with this finding on November 17, 2005. The project would renovate worn equipment in an existing State-owned building and would not involve an expansion of existing use.

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