BART - San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

07/06/2022 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/06/2022 18:27

BART welcomes public feedback of environmental analysis on slope repairs at Castro Valley and Concord until 8/12/22

The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is proposing the BART Slope Stabilization Project (Project) along BART's right-of-way (ROW) to perform maintenance on damaged abutment joints, drainage systems, and eroded slopes, reducing long-term risk to passengers, employees, and property. Abutments are concrete structures that support the two ends of a bridge where it passes over a roadway or body of water.

Before the project can be approved and repairs can begin, BART must first prepare an environmental analysis of the project to understand the potential environmental impacts of its implementation. This analysis is required by the California Environmental Quality Act, which was enacted to provide full disclosure of a project's impacts on the physical environment (e.g., air quality, biological resources, historical resources, noise, transportation) and to identify ways to lessen "significant" (or substantially adverse) impacts. BART has prepared an "Initial Study" to evaluate the project's effects.

The Initial Study shows that for most of the resources that are required to be analyzed, the project would either have no impact or less-than-significant impacts. However, the project would have significant impacts on biological and cultural resources if no "mitigation measures" were identified and adopted. The Initial Study outlines the "mitigation measures" to be adopted by BART to avoid or substantially reduce these impacts to a less-than-significant level.

We invite interested members of the public to read the Initial Study here. [PDF]. In addition, copies of the IS/MND are available at the following libraries in Concord and Castro Valley:

  • Concord Library, 2900 Salvio Street, Concord
  • Castro Valley Library, 3600 Norbridge Avenue, Castro Valley

Public Meeting:

BART will hold two virtual public meetings to receive public comments on the Draft Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration:

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Comments on the Draft Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration:

The public review period for the Draft IS/MND will begin on July 8, 2022 and end on August 12, 2022 at 5 p.m.

Comments can be made:

  • at the public meeting;
  • emailed to the following email addresses:
  • sent to the following address: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Attn: Donald Dean, BART, 2150 Webster Street, 8th Floor, Oakland California, 94612