The DEADLINE is September 14 at 4pm. We promised to help the community with a list of talking points that can be addressed in our letters to comment on CEQA. All the instructions how to write the letters and where to send them via mail or email are in our previous post “Write a CEQA… Read More Talking points for CEQA comments

The DEADLINE is September 14 at 4pm. It is time to raise your voice, and/or take pen to paper, on behalf of El Monte Valley. The County of San Diego will be preparing an Environmental Impact Report. The first step in this process is to determine the “scope” of issues to be addressed. Details of… Read More Write CEQA comments!

Wednesday, August 26 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm Lakeside Community Center 9841 Vine St, Lakeside, California 92040 Members of the public, agencies and organizations are invited to attend and submit comments to assist in determining the scope and content of the environmental informational impact report.

The Notice of Preparation for CEQA was published yesterday by the County of San Diego. Our coalition will have a strategy meeting soon and we will update everybody regarding the next step in our action to stop the sand mining. Those of you who attended the community meeting on July 28 remember how crucial it… Read More The Notice of Preparation for CEQA

We urge The County Board of Supervisors to Vote No on El Monte Sand Mines in Lakeside. Dear Supervisors: The El Monte Valley is one of the treasures of San Diego County. I am writing to let you know how important I think the recreational, historic, habitat, and water resources are in El Monte Valley. … Read More Petitioning Chair of San Diego County Board Of Supervisors Bill.Horn@sdcounty.ca.gov

El Monte Nature Preserve, LTD, a sand mining company formerly known as the El Capitan Golf Corse, LLC., brought before the Lakeside planning board the El Monte Sand Extraction and Habitat Restoration project for plan review. The request for permit mentions “the project is seeking to extract approximately 10-miilion tons of processed material over a… Read More STOP THE SAND MINING PROJECT IN EL MONTE VALLEY