State Park Gets Shut Down

Bad News In Northern California

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In a recent court action, a judge in Alameda County has ordered a closure of one of California's State Parks. Last week, Judge Frank Roesch ordered the closure of Carnegie State Vehicle Recreation Area (SVRA) based on his own interpretation of the appropriate application of water quality standards.
Despite years of working with regulatory agencies to address issues surrounding water quality in the Corral Hollow Watershed, Judge Roesch ordered the park, located in the hills east of Livermore, closed until State Parks files and receives approval of or a waiver for a report of waste discharge from the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board. This approval process could take months.
The order stems from a complaint filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance. The group's complaint alleged OHV activities at Carnegie SVRA are causing discharge to enter Corral Hollow Creek, which flows through the park. The creek only runs 4 to 6 weeks a year, and after leaving the park eventually runs out into an agriculture field and disappears into the ground.
"If regulatory agencies are satisfied with what the park has been doing, why does this judge in Alameda think he knows better than the environmental professionals?," asked Dave Pickett, President of American Motorcyclist Association District 36 and member of the Carnegie OHV Taskforce. "This is an attempt by special interests groups to highjack lasting collaborative solutions, and deny family recreation enjoyed by over a 100,000 visitors to this park annually. This is just flat wrong!"

Rubicon Oversight Committee meeting

December 10, 2009 at 7:00 p.m
Scott Johnston December 2 at 10:59am Reply
As you may know, the County is reviewing its proposed routes to identify the trail formally. This ROC meeting is the second of two for public input on this issue.

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Next Rubicon Oversight Committee meeting will be December 10, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Location: DOT Ready Room, 2441 Headington Rd. Placerville, CA 95667. Current discussion is the Rubicon Trail Route Recognition. Documents related to this item are below.

http://www.edcgov.us/Rubicon/pdf/RouteRecognition.pdf
http://www.edcgov.us/Rubicon/pdf/Pro...TrailRoute.pdf

The following is the text description for the routes. Please read them and understand them. What it means to you is that if routes are defined as a single route, bypasses will be closed and a single trail will be maintained for all vehicle travel.( Due to the limitations of facebook the options have been removed form this message)

What does this mean to you? Well, think of Little Sluice, Old Sluice and Postpile for example. If a single route, they will be maintained for all vehicle traffic. That would mean blasting for Little Sluice, losing the Old Sluice, and heavy work at Postpile to make it easier.

See you there,

Scott