Projects

 

VESTRA teamed with PMC to prepare CEQA and NEPA documentation for the proposed Nestle North America Bottling Plant in McCloud, California. The controversial EIR/EA project proposed to divert 1,600 acre-feet per year, or 1,250 gpm, from springs in the vicinity of McCloud. In addition, the proposed project would involve construction of a 1 million square-foot bottling plant at the historic McCloud Sawmill site.  The project proposed to remove many of the historic buildings at the site, which provide a valuable cultural asset to the community.  The bottling plant proposed to discharge in excess of 60,000 gallons per day of waste water into onsite treatment ponds.  Pipelines to transport water to the plant are located on lands managed by the Forest Service.  Traffic, water use and quality, and cultural and biological resources are driving the controversy in the region.  VESTRA was responsible for the evaluation of water quality and surface hydrology issues.  VESTRA completed the water consumption and depletion analysis, storm water impact analysis, and a detailed evaluation of potential process water impacts relating to groundwater quality degradation and attenuation analysis.  The water completion analysis included a watershed-level analysis of historic changes in hydrology on Mt. Shasta and the potential impacts on natural spring withdrawl as well as borehole installation on the mountain. VESTRA worked closely with PMC to address issues and impacts and attended and gave presentations at numerous public meetings.