Use Permit 06-016 Hatchet Ridge Wind Project
4 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2007042078
Lead Agency
Shasta County
Document Title
Use Permit 06-016 Hatchet Ridge Wind Project
Document Type
EIR - Draft EIR
Received
Present Land Use
The present land use is commercial timber land. It is surrounded by commercial timber land and National Forest Land. The zoning is Timber Production (TP). The General Plan land use designation is Timber (T). The project is consistent with the zoning and General Plan land use designation.
Document Description
The applicant, Hatchet Ridge Wind, LLC, proposes to develop and construct a wind energy project. The area actually covered by the project would be an approximately 73 acre portion of the 17 parcels. The project would produce approximately 100 megawatts of electricity and would require construction of 42 to 68 wind turbines on steel tubular towers from about 213 feet to 263 feet tall. The total height of each tower with its attached wind turbine could reach from about 338 feet to about 418 feet high. The line of towers would stretch for about 6.5 miles northeasterly along the ridge of Hatchet Mountain. The project would include transmission lines from the turbines to a new substation and additional lines to interconnect with existing high-voltage transmission lines that cross the project site and which are owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The project would also include a temporary construction office, an operations and maintenance building/control center, new access roads, temporary staging areas, and up to four permanent meteorological masts up to 220 feet high. The project would be constructed over a 6 to 12-month period. In general, the towers would be constructed in areas managed for commercial timber production which were replanted after the 1992 Fountain Fire.
Contact Information
Name
Bill Walker
Agency Name
Shasta County Department of Resource Management
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Counties
Shasta
Cross Streets
Bunch Grass Lookout Road and State Highway 299 East
Zip
96013
Total Acres
73
Parcel #
027-120-004, 007, 008; 030-010-008, 009; 030-030-001, 003, 004, 005, 008, 010, 011, 015, 016, 01
State Highways
299 East
Waterways
Lake Margaret, Carberry Creek, Goose Creek, Hatchet Creek, Little Hatchet, Roaring Creek
Township
35N
Range
2E,1E
Section
1,11,
Base
MDB&M
Other Location Info
City/ Nearest Community: Burney
Other Information
Parcel Nos Cont'd: 018, 030-080-012, 016
Section Cont'd: 12, 7, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 28
Notice of Completion
State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
Air Resources Board, Transportation Projects, Cal Fire, California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Energy Commission, California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Redding Region 5 (RWQCB), Department of Toxic Substances Control, Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency, State Water Resources Control Board, Divison of Financial Assistance, California Department of Transportation, District 2 (DOT), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Northern and Eureka Region 1 (CDFW)
State Reviewing Agency Comments
California Department of Transportation, District 2 (DOT), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Northern and Eureka Region 1 (CDFW)
Development Types
Power:Wind (Megawatts 102 MW)
Local Actions
Use Permit
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Geology/Soils, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Noise, Transportation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire, Wildlife
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