San Mateo and San Juan Creeks

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»Action Alert | May 23, 2008
[url "http://www.tu.org/site/lookup.asp?c=kkLRJ7MSKtH&b=4147211"][#738a5a]Please visit our online action center before May 28th to help us stop a controversial proposal to build a six-lane toll highway across San Mateo and San Juan Creeks. [/#738a5a][/url]
[font "Georgia"][#333333]These creeks represent the front line in the battle to bring back steelhead to its native waters in Southern California. [/#333333][/font]
[url "http://www.tu.org/site/lookup.asp?c=kkLRJ7MSKtH&b=4147211"][/url][font "Arial"][#738a5a][size 4]WHY WE CARE[/size][/#738a5a][/font]
[font "Georgia"][#333333]TU's South Coast chapter has been working for years to bring back the endangered southern coastal steelhead. Our primary focus has been San Mateo Creek - the last undeveloped, undammed river in Southern California. [/#333333][/font]
[font "Georgia"][#333333]The proposed Toll Road could cause major and irreparable harm to steelhead habitat and water quality in San Mateo Creek and neighboring San Juan Creek. [/#333333][/font]
[font "Georgia"][#333333]In February of this year the California Coastal Commission determined that the Toll Road was inconsistent with the Coastal Zone Management Act and denied the developer a key permit to move forward with the project. The developer, Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA), has appealed the Coastal Commission's decision to the federal Department of Commerce, despite the fact its own studies have shown that alternatives to the Toll Road would provide equal relief of traffic congestion and cause far less environmental damage.[/#333333][/font]
[font "Georgia"][#333333][size 3][/size][/#333333][/font][font "Arial"][#738a5a][size 4]WHAT YOU CAN DO[/size][/#738a5a][/font]
[url "http://www.tu.org/site/lookup.asp?c=kkLRJ7MSKtH&b=4147211"][#738a5a]Please visit our online action center before May 28 [/#738a5a][/url]to tell the Secretary of Commerce that the Toll Road could cause unacceptable adverse impacts on rare high-quality steelhead habitat and our native steelhead recovery efforts, and that the Coastal Commission's decision on the project should be respected.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or for more information.

Sincerely,
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[font "Georgia"][#333333]Drew Irby,
Chair California Council
Trout Unlimited
[url "mailto:irbysan@hotmail.com"][#738a5a]irbysan@hotmail.com[/#738a5a][/url]

Sam Davidson
California Field Director
Trout Unlimited
Ph.831-235-2542
[url "mailtodavidson@tu.org"][#738a5a]sdavidson@tu.org[/#738a5a][/url] [/#333333][/font][font "Georgia"][#333333][/#333333][/font]
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