Save Lake Chabot Road

EBMUD (East Bay Municipal Utility District) has applied for a conditional use permit (CUP) from Alameda County to allow the deposit of trench soil extracted from pipeline repair and construction into the quarry site located at 13575 Lake Chabot Road.

Check out the web site SAVELAKECHABOTROAD.COM for detailed information.

EBMUD estimates that there will be 60–100 dump trucks five days a week on Lake Chabot Road for the next 40–80 years (this is not a typo), with trucks entering and exiting the site and traveling on Estudillo Avenue and Lake Chabot Road every four or five minutes. The intersections of Estudillo/MacArthur and Estudillo/Benedict will be seriously impacted.

Lake Chabot Road, is currently closed due to rockslides and major undercarriage structure issues. This road is very narrow with no shoulders, heavy with bicycle traffic and wildlife, autos, and hikers.

Even worse than the Road, is the proposed Quarry site. The Quarry is on land that has a history of slippage and open crevasses and sits atop two traces of the Hayward Fault.

Other dump sites in use by EBMUD for this purpose are located in areas remote from traffic and homes and we are urging EBMUD to withdraw their application and move this project to an alternative site.

–Teri Schlesinger, San Leandro