Agmt 2010 Environmental Science Associates

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Fr ESA SECTION A Executive Summary 1. Key Qualifications -and Experience ESA has been with the City and its harbor since the 1980s, and has prepared permits, managed the marshlands, and studied the hydrology and wildlife of this part of the Bayfront for more than 20 years. ESA PWA, an ESA subsidiary, provides specialized habitat restoration expertise that will be particularly helpful to the team in addressing the unique situation at the Dredge Materials Management Site. Our principal subconsultant, 2M Associates, are recreation planners and landscape architects who have planned successful shoreline and water- oriented development projects throughout the Bay Area. Moffatt & Nichol, the firm which provided the initial prediction of the equilibrium water depths in the San Lcandro Harbor in 2008, returns as a kcy team member to evaluate alternatives in the light of the feasibility of continued dredging. 2. Project Understanding Perhaps our strongest qualification is our ability, as a team, to develop a range of alternatives within the context of the possible. The ESA team understands the area and will plan practicable alternatives which meet the City's needs and reflect its stated assutnptions. We understand these to be, and therefore each alternative must: • Maintain some form of boating/aquatic recreation; • Consider the potential for revenue which offsets some or all of the long- term maintenance costs; • Be hydro- geologically self - sustaining; • Be coordinated with/complimentary to the Cal -Coast development; and, • For the DMMS, provide a net benefit to natural resource conservation which might be used as mitigation for the implementation of the new Harbor Basin or other City projects. coy of San Leandro Harbor Basin Alternatives Study RFP 50536 A -1