EBMUD Quarry Plan of Major Concern

Editor:

I have been a resident of San Leandro for 40+ years. My son attended San Leandro schools from Broadmoor Preschool Co-op through SLHS. I worked as a volunteer in the schools for many years including work with the San Leandro Sports Foundation to pass Measure M to repair school physical education facilities. When I first read of EBMUD’s plans to fill the quarry off Lake Chabot Road and create a park for more recreational access, I thought it would be a great idea for our community. After reading what their actual plans entail, I discovered I was totally wrong. EBMUD’s plan would require 60 to 100 dump trucks to transport soil five days a week for the next 40 to 80 years (that is not a typo!) up Lake Chabot Road, dump the dirt at the Quarry site, then travel over Lake Chabot Road to Fairmount Ave. in Castro Valley and down to 580. The Quarry site is located directly over two traces of the Hayward Fault. Recent heavy rains have again created several rockslides from the hillsides onto Lake Chabot Road, along with a total undercutting of the roadway in several areas, which has led to its current closure. There are also new open fissures and mudslides on the Quarry hillside itself. The foundation of Lake Chabot Road has been fragile for many years, and even spending millions of dollars to fix it now, will still not support 60 to 100 dump trucks a day weighing up to 22 tons, nor will the hillsides above be a safe location to dump tons of dirt. Please visit the website at www.SaveLakeChabotRoad.com to help our community stop this project in this very unstable location.

–Anne Cawood, San Leandro