Yreka Creek Trail Development Project
3 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2012122023
Lead Agency
City of Yreka
Document Title
Yreka Creek Trail Development Project
Document Type
MND - Mitigated Negative Declaration
Received
Present Land Use
Industrial and Open Space Zoning: General Plan Designations are Light Industrial, Recreation-School Conservation, and Open Space
Document Description
The proposed project includes the development of public access trails along Yreka Creek and within the Yreka Creek Greenway, as well as the installation of recreation facilities to include fixed and breakaway bridges, picnic tables, a trailhead parking facility, removal of floodplain constrictions, removal of noxious weeds, a and planting of native riparian and upland vegetation. In particular the Yreka Creek Trial Development Project proposes the following improvements:
1. Construction of approximately 5,000 square feet of asphalt parking lot at the Oberlin Road trailhead;
2. Surfacing of approximately 1,500 linear feet of existing trail to make it ADA-accessible;
3. Construction of approximately 1,900 linear feet of gravel trail;
4. Installation of 2 free-span bridges having approximately 100 linear feet of total length, including abutments and armoring;
5. Installation of up to seven "float-aside" seasonal water crossings or upland channel crossings, including abutments and armoring;
6. Installation of armored dip crossings along with two temporary seasonal wet crossings for construction purposes and three in-channel "Rosgen-venin" hydraulic features;
7. Installation of armored concrete dip and armored box culverts across overflow channel.
8. Installation of concrete, handicapped-accessible picnic tables and trash receptacles;
9. Creation of approximately 700-foot drainage swale that provides vegetative filtration of storm water;
10. Restoration of approximately 1 acre of floodplain by re-contouring flood constrictions, planting approximately 600 native plants and trees, and implementing erosion control measures; and
11. Development and installation of a bond acknowledgement sign, a trail and site identification map/sign, a chain-link fence along west side of Young property, and trailside interpretive signs and a trailhead drinking fountain.
Contact Information
Name
Jeannette Hook
Agency Name
City of Yreka
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Yreka
Counties
Siskiyou
Cross Streets
220 E. Oberlin Road
Zip
96097
Total Acres
20
Parcel #
061-301-030, 050, -070, -080, -420 & -460: 061-352-020, & 190; &, 061-221-070
State Highways
Hwy 3 & 263
Schools
Evergreen, Jackson St. & Gold St. Schools,
Waterways
Yreka Creek
Township
45N
Range
7W
Section
27
Notice of Completion
State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of State Parks, Division of Boating and Waterways, California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, North Coast Region 1 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency, 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
Recreational (Trails), Other (Flood Control)
Local Actions
Site Plan
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire
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