LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Community meetings are planned in December to discuss abandoned mines in the region.
The Westside Sacramento Integrated Regional Water Management Plan has kicked off a “brownfields” project that will engage communities in the Cache and Putah Creek watersheds about abandoned mining sites.
As part of that project, the Westside Sacramento Integrated Regional Water Management Plan is working on an area-wide assessment of abandoned mines in the two watersheds.
The group will host two upcoming meetings to give landowners information on how to get involved in the assessment.
The meetings will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Middletown Lions Club, 15399 Central Park Road; and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 15, at the Calistoga Community Center, 1307 Washington St.
Discussion topics at the meetings will include the location of abandoned mine lands, how to get involved and potentially receive cleanup funding, and what property owners can do to get their land assessed.
Officials said this program is completely voluntary and there is no risk of enforcement.
For more information visit http://www.westsideirwmbrownfields.org/ .
December meetings planned to discuss abandoned mine assessment project
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