Title
Update on the Water Wheel
Recommendation
The City has a robust water quality program that is overseen by the Public Works Department and the Water Quality/Coastal Tidelands Committee. In June of 2019, the City entered into an agreement with the State of California Natural Resources Agency for the Newport Bay Water Wheel Project. Public Works staff will provide a presentation on this project.
Recommendation:
1) Find this action exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly; and
2) Receive and file.