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2.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 2.1 Proiect Overview The Claude C. Wood Company is proposing*development of an aggregate resource quarry near the town of Clements, California on State Highway 88. The project area is illustrated in Figure 2.1-1. The aggregate resource to be quarried from the proposed site would be processed at an existing facility. This facility, owned and operated by the Claude C. Wood Company, has been in operation since 1956 and is supplied by an aggregate quarry located to the east as shown in Figure 2.1-2. The resource at the existing quarry site is expected to be exhausted in mid-1990. The project would involve extraction of approximately 2.4 million tons of sand and gravel from a 120-acre portion of a 253.71 acre parcel adjacent to the town of Clements. The project site is within an aggregate resource area as designated by the California Division of Mines and Geology (See Section 1.5). Operation of the processing facility and an adjacent quarry area north of the river are covered under an existing permit, and activities associated with these facilities are not addressed in this EIR; however, reclamation of these facilities will be addressed in this EIR due to their relationship to the proposed project. 2.2 Site Location and Characteristics The project site is roughly bordered by the town of Clements and State Highway 88 to the south, Mackville Road to the east, Jahant Road to the north, and agricultural land to the west as shown in Figure 2.1-2. The Mokelumne River flows east to west between the processing facility and the proposed quarry site. The project area (both quarry site and the processing facility) are within the ancient flood plain of the Mokelumne River. The processing facility is partially within the current 100 year flood plain and the proposed quarry area lies mostly within an area of minimal flooding (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1988). The project area is bound on the north, south, and east by bluffs that rise about 50 feet above project site elevations. Immediately to the west is slightly lower elevation agricultural land. 9