Exhibit CC 03-01-2016 Item #10 Friends of Stevens Creek TrailTo: City of Cupertino Board and Planning Department
From: Cathy Helgerson -CAP -Citizens Against Pollution
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Regarding: Friends of the Steven Creek Trail Request toward a feasibility study of fish migration
improvements along the Steven Creek, Creek.
I have requested that Dyan Whyte with the State Regional Water Quality Control Board contact the City
of Cupertino, the Friends of the Stevens Creek Trail and the Santa Clara County Water District to discuss
the pollution coming from the Steven Creek Quarry. The Steven Creek Quarry Company has a permit
issued under Santa Clara County to release water coming down from the gigantic recycled concrete pills
of rock into the Steven Creek Reservoir. This permit has been in effect for decades and nothing has been
done about the Mercury pollution coming from the water and concrete rocks that are piled up ready to
be ground into recycled cement this water and dust goes into the Steven Creek Reservoir and the Steven
Creek, Creek. The State Regional Water Quality Control Board at this time are conducting an
investigation about pollution coming from the Stevens Creek Quarry across the street from the Steven
Creek Reservoir and those results will need to be provided to the public at a later time once they have
completed their work.
The Steven Creek Reservoir is polluted with Mercury and other pollution that is allowed to flow down to
the recharge pond behind the 7 /11 Store and then into the Steven Creek Creek killing the fish and also
polluting the Aquifer under the Silicon Valley where we live. The Harker Academy School presented a
study to the City of Cupertino that was done they test the water and the fish with the help of Stanford
University years ago and found out that there are high levels of Mercury in the Steven Creek Reservoir
the City of Cupertino, Santa Clara Water District and Santa Clara County have done nothing to clean up
the reservoir, the creek and the aquifer below. The fish are polluted with Mercury in the Stevens Creek
Reservoir and no one should be eating the fish but people do.
I also believe that there is Selenium in the water and probably other dangerous pollutants there needs
to be a complete study of this matter and until that can be conducted there is no way any fish can
survive in the Steven Creek Reservoir or the Steven Creek Creek the pollution must stop.
The Friends of the Steven Creek Trail will need to wait to conduct any tests that they wish to conduct
and no money should be allocated to them from the City of Cupertino until the State Regional Water
Quality Board has completed their Investigation and the pollution has been cut off from the Stevens
Creek Quarry that is going into the Steven Creek Reservoir and the Steven Creek, Creek. I suggest
nothing less than closing down the Steven Creek Quarry completely for good and a full Super Fund Site
Cleanup be conducted as soon as possible to protect the public from any further pollution.