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"Public Services and Utilities"). Therefore,the project's contribution to the need for fire protection services is considered a less-than-significant cumulative impact. POLICE SERVICES Recent approval of Measure M increased the sales tax rate in the City of Manteca to provide funding for necessary public services including funding for additional law enforcement services. The proposed project and cumulative projects create an increased demand for law enforcement services.Although the project contributes to a cumulative need for law enforcement in the city,the Manteca Police Department has indicated that police facilities and personnel are sufficient to meet the needs of all development in the city because of additional funding that is made available from the approval of Measure M(see Section 4.10, "Public Services and Utilities"). Therefore,the project's contribution to the need for law enforcement services is considered a less- than-significant cumulative impact. 5.3.11 TRANSPORTATION AND CIRCULATION The project would slightly increase traffic volumes on local area roadways.As described under Impact 4.11-2,the project would generate 20 one-way employee passenger vehicle trips per day and less than one truck haul trip per day. These trips are less than 1.0%of existing traffic volumes on local area roadways and would not decrease the LOS of these roadways. Conditions would be essentially the same with and without the project. This is considered a less-than-significant cumulative transportation and circulation impact and the project's contribution would not be cumulatively considerable. 5.3.12 CULTURAL RESOURCES Cumulative impacts to historic and unique archaeological resources are based on analysis of past,present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions in the vicinity of the proposed project in combination with potential effects of implementing the project. In general, archaeological resources in San Joaquin Valley result from thousands of years of human occupation. Previous development activities disturbed, destroyed, or compromised numerous archaeological resources and also resulted in a degradation of the historic fabric and integrity of the rural farming and ranching landscape surrounding the City of Manteca. This would be a cumulatively significant impact. However,because no significant historic properties or unique archaeological resources have been identified within the project area,the project's incremental contribution would not be considerable and this would be less than significant cumulative impact. 5.3.13 FISHERIES AND AQUATIC RESOURCES At full build-out(capacity increase to 27 mgd)and under conservative worst-case conditions,the proposed project would result in an increased thermal plume size and changes in certain aspects of the plume's internal characteristics(e.g.,temperature contours) and/or the frequency with which specific characteristics would occur, relative to the existing(permitted- 9.87 mgd)condition. This was determined to be a significant impact. However,mitigation recommended for the project(see Mitigation Measure 4.13-2)would require the City to construct cooling towers to cool a portion of the WQCF effluent prior to its discharge to the San Joaquin River. With implementation of this mitigation,the temperature of the effluent would be minimized, and the project's fishery impacts would be reduced to a less-than-significant level. For present and future water quality projects, assuming all related projects identified in Section 5.2.3, "List of Related Water Quality Projects,"plus other water quality control projects in the Delta also implement all feasible thermal control measures,thermal impacts to the Delta on a project-by-project basis would be less than significant. Therefore,this would be a less-than-significant cumulative fishery resource impact and the project's contribution would not be considerable. Manteca WQCF and Collection System Master Plans EIR EDAW City of Manteca 5-19 Cumulative Impacts