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Greenbelt Alliance In the News
April 12, 2006 Oakley sued over plans for 4,000 homes on flood-prone tract California & the West Associated PressMARTINEZ, Calif. - An environmental group sued the city of Oakley to block plans for 4,000 new homes on flood-prone farmland protected by levees. The Greenbelt Alliance said in a suit filed Tuesday in Contra Costa County Superior Court that the city did not require enough safeguards against possible levee failures in approving plans to develop the 2,546-acre Hotchkiss Tract. The tract is located six feet below sea level along the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta about 50 miles east of San Francisco. "The bottom line is that this development is dangerous and unnecessary," said David Reid of the Greenbelt Alliance. The suit also claims plans treat storm runoff in artificial lakes would contaminate drinking water. The city is trying to manage growth by requiring developers to build new levees that meet federal standards, said Rebecca Willis, Oakley's director of community development. But state officials argue the federal standard is inadequate. The developers will also pay millions of dollars to improve and maintain a system of levees and pumps that have been deemed inadequate, Willis said. "We have definitely made every effort to disclose everything and to look for solutions to the problems that we have found out in the field," Willis said. ### |
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