Port Hueneme-- The story about the permitting process to clean up Bubbling Springs Park continues with how restricting work on the area to the daytime hours will help offset and minimize environmental impacts.
The work will remove the reeds and vegetation from the water, but it requires permitting to get the job done.
Rincon Senior Biologist Eric Schaad said the nesting bird season in the area is from early February until mid-September.
“Avoiding that period helps to minimize any potential impacts on the project,” he said. “Avoidance buffers will be incorporated, and there are signs that say it is an environmentally sensitive area and to please keep out. During the project, the signs will apply to the workers at the project as well as the general public. If nesting turtles and nesting birds have been identified, we might establish a buffer to avoid a work area so work can continue elsewhere along the project and it doesn’t delay the project entirely. It may delay a specific area while that nesting is occurring. In the case of turtles, once the species is captured and relocated safely to a new location, more downstream work will be able to continue in the…
