Best Road Mutual Water Company Water System Consolidation Project
Summary
SCH Number
2025010819
Public Agency
Sunnyslope County Water District
(SCWD)
Document Title
Best Road Mutual Water Company Water System Consolidation Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
1/27/2025
Document Description
Water system improvements to physically consolidate the Best Road Mutual Water Company (BRMWC) system with the SSCWD distribution system. SSCWD will succeed BRMWC and supply potable water to 48 existing customers of the BRMWC. The BRMWC well will be abandoned, and the agency will be dissolved in favor of potable water service provided by SSCWD. No increased water demand on subservice aquifers will occur as an existing well will be abandoned in favor of an existing well with sufficient production capacity and agency agreements have been secured to ensure supplementary water supplies are provided.
Contact Information
Name
Drew A Lander
Agency Name
Sunnyslope County Water District
Job Title
General Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Hollister
Counties
San Benito
Regions
Countywide
Cross Streets
Fairview Rd./John Smith Rd. to John Smith Rd./Heatherwood Ln.
Zip
95023
Total Acres
.5
Jobs
15
Parcel #
020-330-0660,020-900-0220, 025-510-0020
State Highways
Hwy 25
Railways
None
Airports
None
Schools
Rancho Santana Elem, Cerra Visa Elem, Tres Pinos Elem
Waterways
Santa Ana Creek
Other Location Info
Pipeline located within the County of San Benito Right of Way and public utility easement, beginning at the intersection of Fairview Rd. and John Smith Rd. (36°49'57.64"N 121°21'48.8l"W) and then Eastward for a distance of approximately 4300' to the intersection of Heatherwood Lane and John Smith Rd., (36°49'55.Sl"N 121°20'57.69"W). BRMWC well abandonment on public utility easement South of John Smith Road (36°49'54.54"N 121°21"06.81"W). SSCWD well #5 improvements located on fee title property of SSCWD, off Tyler Ct. Hollister CA (36°49'01.12"N 121°22'13.36"W).
Assessor's Parcel No.: County of San Benito Parcels - 020-330-0660, 020-900-0220, 025-510-0020 and County right of way within the Unincorporated area near Hollister California.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Section 15828(k)
Reasons for Exemption
California Code of Regulation, Title 14, Section 15828(k) identifies the installation of new pipeline or maintenance, repair, restoration, removal, or demolition of an existing pipeline as set forth in Section 21080.21 of the Public Resources Code, as long as the project does not exceed one mile in length. All work will occur within the County right of way, beneath previously disturbed areas now maintained as asphalt roadway. Work to be performed at the SSCWD well head #5 also will occur on or below asphalt
roadway. No other changes or impacts to the environment have been identified or can be assumed.
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Section 15301 - Existing Facilities / Section 15302(c) Replacement, No Expansion / Section 15303(d) Utility Extension
Reasons for Exemption
California Code of Regulation, Title 14, Section 15828(k) identifies the installation of new pipeline or maintenance, repair, restoration, removal, or demolition of an existing pipeline as set forth in Section 21080.21 of the Public Resources Code, as long as the project does not exceed one mile in length. All work will occur within the County right of way, beneath previously disturbed areas now maintained as asphalt roadway. Work to be performed at the SSCWD well head #5 also will occur on or below asphalt
roadway. No other changes or impacts to the environment have been identified or can be assumed. The following exemptions also imply a CEQA Common Sense Exemption as considerations of the design clearly and definitively will not have any significant impact on the environment as presented.
County Clerk
San Benito
Attachments
Notice of Determination
Notice of Exemption
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