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DESCRIPTION:We have a great opportunity to save local endangered wildlife! There is a 
 hearing before the full San Francisco Board of Supervisors on 3/25 and we 
 need EVERYONE to join us at City Hall to urge the Supervisors to support 
 the Sharp Park Pumphouse Project appeal and order a full Environmental 
 Impact Report for the Sharp Park Pumphouse Project.\n\nThis is a must 
 attend event!!!  Sharp Park's threatened and endangered wildlife needs each 
 and every concerned citizen to give public comment in support of the Sharp 
 Park Pumphouse Project Appeal. This project must not go forward without a 
 full EIR! \n\nYou do not need to be a San Francisco resident to give public 
 comment. Your comment can be short. In fact, comments are usually limited 
 to 2 or 3 minutes. We do need you to tell the supervisors you want a see a 
 full Environmental Impact Report for the Sharp Park Pumphouse Project. 
 \n\nThe Sharp Park Pumphouse Project proposes to dredge sediment and 
 aquatic vegetation from the Laguna Salada wetland complex so water flows 
 more rapidly to the pumphouse, allowing the pumphouse to drain the wetland 
 complex at a faster rate. \n\nA full Environmental Impact Report is needed 
 because: \n\n•  Experts such as Greg Kamman—the hydrologist retained by 
 SFRPD to analyze Sharp Park’s hydrology—have explained that increasing 
 the pumping rate will harm the threatened California Red-legged Frog and 
 the Laguna Salada wetland complex in at least two ways:\n\n    Increasing 
 the pumping rate will cause additional harm to the California Red-legged 
 Frog by draining more of the frog’s breeding habitat before the frog can 
 reproduce.\n\n    Increasing the pumping rate will cause the complex’s 
 water level to remain shallow for a longer period of time. Because aquatic 
 vegetation grows rapidly in shallow water, the project’s purpose cannot 
 be sustained unless the wetland system is dredged regularly. Dredging 
 releases harmful sulfur-based sediments into the water column, and regular 
 releases of these compounds can disrupt the wetland complex’s 
 ecology.\n\n• Experts have proposed a feasible alternative to the 
 pumphouse project: allowing the wetland complex’s water levels to rise 
 higher than the aquatic vegetation can tolerate. This would reduce the 
 amount of aquatic vegetation in the wetland complex without harming the 
 frog, and would not require regular dredging. \n\n• The Pumphouse 
 Project’s Mitigated Negative Declaration does not consider the 
 environmental consequences of increasing the pumping rate, nor does it 
 consider alternatives to the project. This violates CEQA, because the 
 project’s pumping protocols only constrain pumping after California 
 Red-legged Frog egg masses are laid. Preemptive draining of breeding 
 habitat currently occurs, and faster pumping will cause even more breeding 
 areas to be preemptively drained. \n\n• San Francisco has never 
 considered the environmental effects of the existing pumping rate—let 
 alone increasing the pumping rate—in any prior CEQA document. Therefore 
 the increase in pumping cannot be considered part of this project’s 
 “environmental baseline.” \n\n• The Laguna Salada wetland complex and 
 the adjacent Mori Point National Park are one of the most prolific 
 California Red-legged Frog breeding areas in the state. Yet the California 
 Red-legged Frog population is declining at Sharp Park because existing 
 pumping protocols cause egg masses to be killed when the wetland system is 
 drained.\n\n• Draining existing or future breeding areas at faster rates 
 will not enhance the California Red-legged Frog population. To enhance the 
 population pumping rates must be reduced so that eggs can hatch and 
 tadpoles can become adults before the wetlands are drained. \n\n• Unless 
 a full Environmental Impact Report is ordered by the Board of Supervisors, 
 these environmental effects will not be considered, and environmentally 
 superior alternatives will be ignored.\n\n• When the Sharp Park pump is 
 used as planned it drains so much water that federally protected California 
 Red-legged Frog egg masses are exposed and left to die. This pumping 
 threatens future generation of frogs! The Sharp Park Pumphouse Project must 
 undergo a thorough environmental review.\n\nPlease join us on 3/25 at 
 2:00pm at San Francisco City Hall Room 250 to call for a full Environmental 
 Impact Report of the Sharp Park Pumphouse Project. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/06/18752118.php
SUMMARY:Appeal Hearing for Sharp Park Pumphouse Project
LOCATION:San Francisco City Hall, Room 250\n1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place\nSan 
 Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/06/18752118.php
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