SCH Number 2019069040

Project Info

Title

Weber Herbicide Treatment

Description

The EID Vegetation Management Project (“Approved Project”), approved in 2019, provides for vegetation management activities at four EID facilities: Weber Reservoir, Sly Park Recreation Area, Camp 5 Maintenance Yard, and Flume 46 on the El Dorado Canal. The vegetation management activities associated with the Approved Project are intended to return the areas to a more managed, fire resistant condition and to protect local communities, EID’s critical infrastructure, and water quality from the effects of catastrophic wildfire. As part of the Approved Project, EID has completed the mechanical mastication and hand treatments on EID-owned lands on the north side of Weber Reservoir as described in the MND. The proposed change in the Vegetation Management Project (“Revised Project”) would include the application of herbicide treatments within areas where mechanical mastication has been conducted by EID on approximately 250 acres on the north side of the Weber Reservoir. Herbicide treatments are needed to reduce vegetation re-sprouting in masticated areas to provide more effective fuels management over a longer term and to reduce the frequency of mechanical re-treatment

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