The Siller Ranch Project includes the
development, sale, and operation of a residential-recreational community
consisting of 602 single-family residences, 124 multi-family residences,
and as much as 200,000 square feet of recreation and maintenance
facilities. The Project’s amenities include an 18-hole championship
golf course with practice facilities and clubhouse with spa, a family
recreation complex, a par-3 nine-hole golf course, an 18-hole putting
course, tennis courts, swimming pools, multi-event/play fields and
parks, a nature center, amphitheater with stage and multi-purpose
pavilion, a winter recreation area with mountain lodge, and facilities
for winter sports. Also proposed is an internal community trail system
and a public trail connection to the regional trail system currently in
development, staffed gate facilities, a community mail drop, and Project
sales offices, as well as accessory structures required to provide
necessary health and safety, maintenance, storage, and administrative
functions.
H&C was responsible for all NEPA/CEQA
environmental studies and all aspect to permitting for sections 401,
402, and 404 of the Clean Water Act, Section 7 of the Endangered Species
Act, Section 106 of Historian Preservation Act, and other state and
local permitting. This included California State Water Quality
Certification from the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (LRWQCB),
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) requirements and
evaluation and Corps permitting for waters of the United States,
including wetlands. This required a thorough watershed assessment, the
development of a water quality protection program that included LRWQCB
Water Quality Certification, USACE Wetland delineation verification and
Clean Water Act Section 404 Nationwide Permit Application, Wetland
Mitigation and Stream Restoration Plan, Streambed Alteration Agreement,
design of temporary and permanent project wide best management practices
(BMP), and a BMP Report for the Protection of Water Quality, Storm Water
Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP), Chemical Application Management
Plans (CHAMP), and Request for Exemption to the 100-Year Floodplain
Prohibition, including Avoidance/Minimization efforts. H&C performed
duties with respect to: cartography, conservation and resource
management, design-build and preparation of requests for proposals,
ecological and archaeological investigations, environmental assessments,
environmental and natural resource mapping, environmental planning,
geographic information system and data analysis and data collection,
water resources including hydrology and groundwater.
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