Follow Up to EBMUD Plan

Editor:
I respectfully disagree with Mr. McGuire’s article dated 1/19/23. It is NOT just Bay-O-Vista residents who oppose the EBMUD Quarry Project. Everyone in San Leandro and other local communities who use Estudillo and Lake Chabot Road to access our parks and Castro Valley will be impacted. Contrary to EBMUD’s Ms. Favorite-Hill’s statement regarding the road capacity– it was never built to handle heavy trucks – which is why the Quarry operations never used upper Lake Chabot Road, only lower Chabot and Estudillo, until their permit expired in 1986. San Leandro now has an ordinance that requires trucks weighing more than 4 ½ tons to stay on designated truck routes – which Estudillo and Lake Chabot Road are NOT. Had EBMUD done more research they would have found the articles involving the makeup of the Quarry property and the massive storms in 1998, which resulted in serious ground failure and land displacement, causing major landslides and displaced homes in Bay O Vista. The storms this year did more damage to the site and road. EBMUD claims the project will make Bay O Vista a better neighborhood than it is now. But they are treating our City like a major construction and dumpsite for the next 40 to 80 years to get there with the attendant diesel pollution and asbestos cement pipe trench soils contamination this will entail. We already have a beautiful park currently accessible to San Leandro through Lake Chabot Road. It’s called Lake Chabot Park and it is heavily used by our very diverse community. EBMUD’s plan of using 60 to 100 dump trucks a day along this road will destroy our access to it. But don’t take my word for it. Visit www.savelakechabotroad.com to learn more.