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d , Air Item No. PC: 4-15-93 SA-93-3 Page 5 the impacts to a less-than-significant level. The traffic study includes the recommendation that the primary access point (900 feet north of Fairchild.Lane)should include a northbound left tum lane. The center left-turn lane should extend north to the minor driveway (1,304 feet north of Fairchild Lane). Noise: During the five weeks of the cherry packing.season, there will be noise from refrigerated trucks, j forklift trucks, automobiles, compressors; and fans. Most of the compressors and fans will be within the structures,. and the sound will be muted by the walls. The nearest residence is approximately 300 feet to the north of the northerly property line of the project. Water Use: Approximately 9.3 acres of orchard will be taken out of irrigation for this project: An estimate of the current water usage,using the Consumptive Water Use Chart from the.University of California Cooperative Extertslon,is approximately 9,596,000 gallons per year. Based on the existing cherry packing shed and cold storage facility_that-the applicant operates on Broadway Avenue in Stockton, an estimate:for the year-round water usage for the•cherry packing.shed and the colt storage is approidmately 25 million gallons. The_applicant states,that the proposed project will' be approximately Vw same size:as the packing shed.on Broadway Avenue. As a result of this. project,there will be a considerable decrease in the water usage. Drainae: Storm drair}age,shall be retained on the site, and provisions for such are required to be shown on the lmpmvemertt Plan that is submitted and approved by the Development Services Division. The EnvirorawmW Health Division's Condition of Approval (c) requires that any discharge of processed water from the development shallmeet their standarft and, the standards of the California Regional Water Quality.Control Board, Central Valley Region. Methyl bromide will be used in the fumigation chamber. Chambers are annually inspected by the U.S.DA During the export season, the chambers are inspected by the U.S.I7.A_ or the Agricultural Commissior> s Office. Venting of the chamber is typically done in the middle of the rpt. The State of Callomla,Department of Pesticide Regulation, has conducted studies on the various uses of methyl bromide, and they will be requiring conditions with the permits of the mebromide use sometime In the near future. This chernica is routinely: used thyl for cherry paddng sheds.ln this county. A letter from the Office of the Agricultural Commissioner of San Joaquin County states that a search of their records of the irty ions made by that office in the last fire yearn does not reveal any,reported illnesses rewftft from the venting of fumigation chambers ding methyl bromide. The- handling of the chemicals must meet the standard requirements of the Office of.Emergency Services prior to Initiation of the use.