Title
Consider recommending that the Monterey County Water Resources Agency Board of Supervisors approve an encroachment request to allow for an extension to an existing retaining wall in the floodage easement of Nacimiento Reservoir; and authorize the General Manager to execute an encroachment agreement related to the request for modifications to this existing retaining wall for life and safety reasons.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Monterey County Water Resources Agency Board of Directors recommend that the Monterey County Water Resources Agency Board of Supervisors:
a. Approve an encroachment request to allow for an extension to an existing retaining wall in the Floodage Easement of Nacimiento Reservoir; and
b. Authorize the General Manager to execute an encroachment agreement related to the request for modifications to this existing retaining wall for life and safety reasons.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Monterey County Water Resources Agency ("MCWRA") has received a request to grant permission to allow the continued and previously unauthorized use within the MCWRA's Floodage Easement ("Floodage Easement") that surrounds Nacimiento Reservoir. In this request, San Luis Obispo County officials and property owners, Michel J. Orradre and Mary F. Orradre, have requested that MCWRA authorize necessary life and safety improvements to a retaining wall in the located within the Floodage Easement.
The retaining wall supports a dwelling structure at 2888 Land's End Road in Bradley within the Oaks Shores Resort, and needs immediate emergency repairs. The retaining wall in its current configuration is approximately 45 feet long and 14 feet in height. The average bottom of the wall is at an elevation 790 feet and the top of the wall at 804 feet (per GPS observations from benchmark TCS #71). This encroachment request is to allow the construction of a 33 feet long extension to the current retaining wall. According to John Kulda, R.C.E, with...
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