COUNCIL MAY CONSIDER NEW LANG RANCH DAM STUDY.Byline: Cecilia Chan Staff Writer In her crusade to stop a 66-foot-high dam from being built atop an ancient oak grove Oak grove may refer to
Oak Grove is a common name for several places in the United States of America. , City Councilwoman Linda Parks For the DC Comics character, see . Linda Park (born July 9, 1978) is a Korean American actress who is best known for her portrayal of communications officer character Hoshi Sato in the television series . wants the city to spend $62,450 to study her proposal for a smaller project on a different site. Parks is trying to block the 345-foot-long dam and 1,200-foot-long retention basin Noun 1. retention basin - a storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin, watershed, basin - the entire geographical that would catch runoff Runoff The procedure of printing the end-of-day prices for every stock on an exchange onto ticker tape. Notes: If the "tape is late" then it can take a long time to print off all the closing prices. from the 2,257-home Lang Ranch development in the northeast section of the city. The project would uproot 48 oak trees and, residents say, impede the view in the area. Instead, Parks has proposed that the project be built about 900 feet downstream, on a 10-acre spot where baseball fields are now planned. She claims, however, that city consultants who reviewed her plan studied the wrong site - a ``steep hillside of known landslide landslide, rapid slipping of a mass of earth or rock from a higher elevation to a lower level under the influence of gravity and water lubrication. More specifically, rockslides are the rapid downhill movement of large masses of rock with little or no hydraulic flow, material.'' That's why she will ask during tonight's council meeting that the city hire Secor International Inc. - an environmental engineering company - to study her proposal. ``I would rather if they shoot down my alternative, (that they) shoot it down on the merits on the merits adj. referring to a judgment, decision or ruling of a court based upon the facts presented in evidence and the law applied to that evidence. A judge decides a case "on the merits" when he/she bases the decision on the fundamental issues and considers of the alternative itself and not on a straw-man proposal,'' Parks said. ``No one in their right mind would take a steep hillside with landslide matter and put a basin in there. That is where they assumed I am proposing and shot it down.'' But Mayor Dan Del Campo and Councilman Dennis Gillette, however, are not convinced that the wrong site was studied. ``From the photographs we were given, the borings were taken in the correct location,'' said Gillette, who has not made up his mind on the proposal. Del Campo also said he is open to further study. ``I think at this point, there is still a window of opportunity we can review any other alternative, whether it be Parks' or any other feasible engineering construction,'' Mayor Dan Del Campo said. ``I, for one, would like one final answer.'' The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a permit for the project, and only the state Division of Safety of Dams and the state Fish and Game Department need to give their OK, said Jeff Pratt, deputy director of the Ventura County Public Works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. and Flood Control District manager. |
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