The city of Winters on Monday will hold a scoping meeting on the environmental report required for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to build a $75 million technical training center in the city.
A rough schematic of the 40-acre center shows a main campus, a utility village training area, along with areas for crane certification, transmission training, pipeline inspection, wellhead simulation and several large areas for commercial driver training on a tarmac and equipment training on dirt. The schematic calls for at least 200 parking stalls, along with parking for heavy equipment and room for a future 20,000-square-foot building.
Scoping meetings consider what the environmental document will cover, including such things as air quality, aesthetics, land use, noise, transportation, traffic, geology, biological resources and whatever else may come up at a the meeting.
Comments can be made verbally at the scoping meeting, which is at 6:30 p.m. at Winters City Hall, or can be submitted in writing to the city by Dec. 9. Scoping meetings are required by the California Environmental Quality Act.
Technical studies are underway now in the development of a draft environmental document, which should be released in March. With timely approvals, the training center could begin construction in the fall of 2015.
The training center is centrally located and will allow the utility to train its workers from all over Northern California. With a few exceptions, PG&E serves gas customers from Bakersfield, to the Central Coast to Nevada and to Oregon.
The San Francisco-based utility is building the training center to help its gas-line employees avoid accidents and respond to emergencies. The utility has suffered some high-profile gas-line accidents, including the 2010 San Bruno explosion and a 2008 explosion in Rancho Cordova.
A rough schematic of the 40-acre center shows a main campus, a utility village training area, along with areas for crane certification, transmission training, pipeline inspection, wellhead simulation and several large areas for commercial driver training on a tarmac and equipment training on dirt. The schematic calls for at least 200 parking stalls, along with parking for heavy equipment and room for a future 20,000-square-foot building.
Scoping meetings consider what the environmental document will cover, including such things as air quality, aesthetics, land use, noise, transportation, traffic, geology, biological resources and whatever else may come up at a the meeting.
Comments can be made verbally at the scoping meeting, which is at 6:30 p.m. at Winters City Hall, or can be submitted in writing to the city by Dec. 9. Scoping meetings are required by the California Environmental Quality Act.
Technical studies are underway now in the development of a draft environmental document, which should be released in March. With timely approvals, the training center could begin construction in the fall of 2015.
The training center is centrally located and will allow the utility to train its workers from all over Northern California. With a few exceptions, PG&E serves gas customers from Bakersfield, to the Central Coast to Nevada and to Oregon.
The San Francisco-based utility is building the training center to help its gas-line employees avoid accidents and respond to emergencies. The utility has suffered some high-profile gas-line accidents, including the 2010 San Bruno explosion and a 2008 explosion in Rancho Cordova.
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