The Project Team for the proposed New Crystal Springs Bypass Tunnel reviewed and assessed very carefully your written comments and testimony at the hearings for the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR).

Your participation and letters provided the team with a fuller understanding of your concerns about the project. While the Major Environmental Analysis (MEA) section of the San Francisco Planning Department will be publishing a formal response to each and every comment later this spring, the Project Team has offered further clarification on the following topics that generated most of the comments:

• Alternatives for this project
  
• Need for 24-hour tunneling
  
• Daily work schedule
  
• Excessive noise
  
• Air quality and health concerns
  
• Slope conditions and landslides
  
• Visual and aesthetic impacts
  

In discussing these issues with our consultants, we continue to explore options to provide you greater comfort with this project. After perusing these responses, please feel free to comment through feedback@sfwater.org, or by writing NCSBT, 1155 Market, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103.

The FAQ document is attached below.