Supplementary Initial Study and Negative Declaration Package - Well Permit Application No. 2020-118

Supplementary Initial Study and Negative Declaration Package - Well Permit Application No. 2020-118

In 2017, Stanislaus County completed a CEQA Initial Study (IS) to evaluate potential environmental impacts associated with expanding operations at the Robert Gioletti & Sons Dairy (Dairy). The 2017 IS determined that the proposed expansion would result in less than significant impacts to environmental resources, and a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) was issued for the Dairy expansion. The Dairy has determined that a new supply well is required to meet the operating water demand. This Supplement IS evaluates impacts associated with permitting installation and operation of a new supply well. The existing barn and cooling water demand for the operation is met by two wells located west of the main dairy complex on the north side of West Main Street (Well 1 and Well 2, respectively). These wells extract water from the confined aquifer system that underlies the Corcoran Clay. The proposed well will be located at the main Dairy complex at 9769 W. Main Street (APN 022-041-006). Operation of the proposed well would thus shift some or all of the groundwater pumping to meet the Dairy water demand from the confined to the unconfined aquifer systems

Stanislaus

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 (CDFW), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, North Central Region 2 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 10 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB), Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, State Water Resources Control Board, Divison of Financial Assistance

Other (Dairy Expansion)

Well Permit

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Energy, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Wildfire