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A review of the roadway volumes shown in from Byron Road to the Tracy city limits. Figure 5 indicates that I-205 is the most San Joaquin County also has plans to heavily congested facility in the study area. resurface Byron Road, between Grant Line The current daily volume of 48,000 repre- Road and the Alameda County line. This is sents approximately 96% of the maximum scheduled to occur in 1990 and 1991. capacity for a typical four-lane freeway. The section of I-580, west of the I-205 E. Utilities and Services junction, carnes 68,000 vehicles per day. This represents approximately 34 percent of Existing Water District: the maximum capacity for an eight-lane freeway. The Byron-Bethany Irrigation District is the source of irrigation water to a major portion Byron Road (J4) currently serves approxi- of the area proposed as the Mountain House mately 5,240 vehicles per day. This repre- Area Planned Community. The District sents approximately 26 percent of the obtains its water by pumping from the maximum capacity for a two-lane, arterial intake channel between the Clifton Court street. All of the local two-lane roadways in Forebay and Delta Pumping Plant, which the project vicinity area carry less than provides the initial lift of San Joaquin Delta 3,000 vehicles per day. This indicates that water into the California Aqueduct. The they operate well below their ultimate District's service area south of the intake capacity. channel is about one-half(1/2)of its total service area, the remainder being north of Proposed Roadway Improvements: the intake channel. Recent discussions with Caltrans, Alameda The District's facilities supply water through County, and San Joaquin County indicate various pumping units so that water can be that there are no major transportation distributed to customers within the District improvements planned for the study area boundary by gravity flow in District owned adjacent the Mountain House Area. This supply canals. Possible water sources for includes the major facilities of 1-580,1-205, the new community are discussed in Chap- and State Route 4. Recent studies have ter IV. indicated that the greatest need for regional improvements in the project vicinity is the Power: widening of I-205 from four lanes to six lanes. (Source: "Western Tracy Industrial Pacific Gas &Electric power and gas Specific Plan," City of Tracy.) facilities exist in the general area. It is expected that such facilities are adequate in Recent local improvements in the study area size to handle the expected additional load include the resurfacing of Grant Line Road, generated by the proposed project. Site Description 3.8