Blue Ribbon Cheese
Summary
- SCH Number
- 2007111060
- Lead Agency
- Fresno County
- Document Title
- Blue Ribbon Cheese
- Document Type
- MND - Mitigated Negative Declaration
- Received
- Present Land Use
- Field Crops, Dairy, vacant land / AE-20 / Agriculture
- Document Description
- Allow a 436,000 square-foot cheese and whey protein processing plant, which includes a drying tower to reach a maximum height of 120 feet (35 feet maximum required), and related facilities that will produce cheese, whey protein concentrate, and whey permeate powder in the AE-20 (Exclusive Agriculture, 20-acre minimum parcel size). Approximately 650,000 gallons of Title 22 quality water, produced per day from the water content of milk (imported from existing dairies) after undergoing a reverse osmosis process, will be treated and applied as irrigation water at appropriate agronomic rates to cultivate alfalfa fields and grains corn and used to off-set agricultural groundwater pumping.
- Contact Information
-
Brian Ross
Fresno County
2220 Tulare Street, Sixth Floor
Fresno, CA 93721
Phone : (559) 262-4321
Location
- Cities
- San Joaquin
- Counties
- Fresno
- Cross Streets
- Elkhorn Avenue
- Zip
- 93620
- Total Acres
- 1,080
- Parcel #
- 041-100-44s, 041-100-18s, 050-170-01s, 050-170-40s, 050-170-42s, and 050-160-10s
- State Highways
- 269
- Township
- 16S
- Range
- 18E
- Section
- 32
- Base
- MDB&M
- Other Location Info
- City/Nearest Community: 13 miles southeast of the City of San Joaquin
Notice of Completion
- Review Period Start
- Review Period End
- Development Type
- Commercial (436,000 Sq. Ft., 80 Acres, 300 Employees) Waste Treatment:Other (Title 22 water)
- Local Action
- Use Permit
- Project Issues
- Aesthetic/Visual Agricultural Land Air Quality Archaeologic-Historic Geologic/Seismic Noise Sewer Capacity Toxic/Hazardous Water Quality Water Supply Wildlife Growth Inducing Land Use
- Reviewing Agencies
- Air Resources Board, Major Industrial Projects California Department of Conservation California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 California Department of Parks and Recreation California Department of Transportation, District 6 California Highway Patrol California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Fresno Region 5 Department of Toxic Substances Control Department of Water Resources Office of Historic Preservation Resources Agency State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights California Native American Heritage Commission
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