Success dam project delayed

Officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento office have announced a substantial delay in the Lake Success Remediation Project.

Corps officials released a statement this week advising there is an indefinite delay in real estate property acquisitions associated with the Seismic Remediation Project at Lake Success.

Corps Project Manager Paul Zianno, in a prepared statement, said the project plan needs to be amended to incorporate newly corrected data.

“Recent investigations at the dam have led to revised earthquake ground motion parameters and improved site characterizations,” Zianno said.

An evaluation will be completed before the Corps can once again determine what land surrounding the project site needs to be purchased from property owners.

In March, representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers met with property owners and tenants living at Lakeside Mobile Home Park, who were told they must be relocated to avoid significant adverse health risks posed during the construction of a new dam.

Approximately 40 mobile-home tenants of the mobile home park attended the meeting. They were told they must move before the start of construction to avoid an unhealthy level of exposure to noise and dirty air through the construction period. The mobile home park is located just below the dam.

In spring, representatives from the Corps Real Estate Office said they could not give residents a definite time table for the acquisition process but estimated it would be sometime before October 2008.

The acquisitions are now delayed indefinitely.