Saratoga Creek restoration project removes more than trees: Some residents lose their backyards
Shayne Jones
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Saratoga Creek, devoid of water because of a multiyear drought. The creek collected some water during a recent atmospheric river, but dried up within days.Shayne Jones
“I’ve lived here for more than 50 years, and this creek was dry longer than I’d ever seen it. It was dry for seven months. No water at all.”
Retired Navy pilot Phil Livengood stood in the backyard of his home in Saratoga, Calif., on Feb. 1 and gestured to Saratoga Creek, a tributary that originates from the Santa Cruz Mountains and once surged with mountain runoff, but now collects dust and slabs of concrete in its parched gully.
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Her lawsuit claims Hart’s personal expenses included 5-6 servers purchased on eBay for $18,000 each. Servers, she says, that were at his home and never part of Identiv’s information technology system. She also points to $3,000 in American Express gift cards that were designated for rewarding employees. She claims the gift cards actually went to Hart’s groundskeeper because he owed him money.
Ruggiero said, The company didn’t benefit from it. It was his lifestyle that was being funded.
She also alleges an improper relationship between Hart and a government official. In the lawsuit, Ruggiero details how Hart used Identiv money to pay for gifts and travel for a contact in the United States government believed to have been . influential in assisting Identiv obtain certain government contracts worth millions of dollars.
This week’s storm delivered much-needed rain to the Bay Area, but those rains washed trash and debris into local waterways, which could leave some areas at.
In an opinion filed on December 29, 2020, the First Appellate District in
Santa Clara Valley Water District v. San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board upheld a Responsible Agency’s imposition of additional mitigation more than a year after it had issued an initial approval for the project. Although the court was careful to say that it was addressing “unique circumstances” that would “seldom arise,” the decision is potentially problematic for project proponents, and especially for public agencies trying to pursue necessary public-infrastructure projects.
In January 2016, the Santa Clara Valley Water District (the “Water District”) certified an environmental impact report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for a flood-control project on Berryessa Creek (the “Project”) that would, among other things, provide protection for a new BART station that was under construction. Under pressure from a State congressional delegation