Atwater-Merced Expressway
13 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2006081138
Lead Agency
Merced County Association of Governments
Document Title
Atwater-Merced Expressway
Document Type
EIR - Draft EIR
Received
Present Land Use
Various, primarily Agricultural designations
Document Description
The Atwater-Merced Expressway (AME) is a proposed 7-mile-long expressway located in the northeast portion of Merced County. The AME would provide motor-vehicle travel between State Route (SR) 59 at Bellevue Road and SR 140 at Gurr Road providing an alternative route to existing SR 59 which travels through downtown Merced.
The AME project would be a new four-lane divided access-controlled expressway with limited cloverleaf style interchanges with major roadways (SR 99 and Santa Fe Drive) and signal-controlled intersections with local roads. The project would include the realignment of some existing roads, including a portion of SR 99, and the extension of some local roads to connect with the new expressway.
Contact Information
Name
Jesse Brown
Agency Name
Merced County Association of Governments
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Atwater, Merced
Counties
Merced
Cross Streets
State Route 59 and Bellevue Road to State Route 140 and Gurr Road
Zip
95348
Total Acres
N/A-linear proje
Parcel #
Multiple
State Highways
SR 59, SR 99, SR 140
Railways
UPRR and BNSF
Airports
Castle Airport
Schools
Multiple school districts
Waterways
Canal Creek and Black Rascal Creek
Township
6S
Range
13E
Section
34
Notice of Completion
State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
Air Resources Board, Transportation Projects, California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 10 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Fresno Region 5 (RWQCB), Caltrans, Division of Aeronautics, Department of Toxic Substances Control, Department of Water Resources, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency
Development Types
Transportation:Highway/Freeway (7-mile expressway)
Local Actions
Roadway
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Economics/Jobs, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Solid Waste, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildlife, Paleontological
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