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2.0 Comments on the Draft IS

into the river. The proposed Project would use a portion of the discharge (approximately 0.5 mgd) from
the Valencia WRP for recycled water use as the primary designated source of all recycled water in the
RWMP. Thus, a reduction in the annual average (using 2017 flow data) from 13.13 mgd to 12.63 mgd
represents an approximately 3.6 percent reduction of current effluent levels from the Valencia WRP and
an approximately 2.8 percent reduction of the total discharge from the Valencia WRP and Saugus WRP.
Accordingly, total annual discharge flows as a result of the proposed Project would not significantly alter

flows in the river, and indirect impacts to federally listed species would remain less than significant. In
addition, disturbance for the proposed Project would occur within the public roadway right-of-way and
would hang from a bridge crossing, as discussed in Section 5.4. Thus, potential direct impacts to the
Riverside fairy shrimp and marsh sandwort would remain less than significant.

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