STOP THE CASINO 101 COALITION

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The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria plans to build its casino on a 254acre site that is bordered by Rohnert Park Expressway to the South, Stony Point Road to the West, Wilfred Avenue to the North and straddles both sides of Labath Avenue to the East. The casino itself and the acreage east of Labath Avenue that is slated for a multi-story parking structure and a sewage treatment plant. is all inside Rohnert Park's Urban Growth Boundary, while the 170+ acres of the original site shares a common border with Rohnert Park City Limits. This portion is designated as a Community Separator in the Sonoma County General Plan, but if taken into trust, the General Plan will not apply.

Note the residential areas surrounding the casino site. Rancho Verde Mobile Home Park, home to dozens of families with small children, is separated from the site by a board fence.

The channel that runs through the site's western end is the headwaters of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, the largest complex of freshwater wetlands on the North Coast. The tribe plans to dump 500,000 gallons or more, of wastewater into this channel every day.

BELOW:  InSAR Satellite mapping of Rohnert Park land susidence "consistent with groundwater extraction".  For more information on this issue, Click on the picture to be taken to the O.W.L. Foundation web site for more information on the Rohnert Park crisis, and click here for more information on InSAR mapping of land subsidence. 

InSAR Mapping of Rohnert Park Land Subsidence
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Areas in red sinking at rate of 1/2 inch/year

Stop the Casino 101 Coalition, Rohnert Park, CA

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