FEMA to Provide Funds to BART for Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control

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SAN FRANCISCO – The Bay Area Rapid Transit District, or BART, will receive funds from FEMA via the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program for slope stabilization and erosion control.

For Alameda and Contra Costa Counties in California, the federal assistance would help to reduce the likelihood and subsequent effects from landslides through these “stabilization treatments”:

• Repair and stabilize failed slope sections
• Restore slope grade
• Install drainage and erosion control facilities
• Repair bridge abutments

FEMA has provided “interested parties with a notice of its intent to carry out an action affecting a floodplain.”

The proposed action includes drainage infrastructure and the installation of several erosion control and slope stabilization measures to reduce the effects of landslides at “22 sites along a portion of BART rights-of-way.” 

BART announced that the “construction activies would include repair or replacement of damaged fencing and sidewalks, retaining wall construction, and repair of 10 bridge abutments” as well as regrading slopes and removing vegetation and trees.

According to FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Map, two project sites are located in a 100-year floodplain and that project sites within Zone AE have a 1% probability of annual flooding. 

More information about this proposed action from FEMA can be obtained via e-mail at [email protected] or by mail.