Thousand Palms Channel Improvements Project
2 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2025021223
Lead Agency
Coachella Valley Water District
(CVWD)
Document Title
Thousand Palms Channel Improvements Project
Document Type
NOD - Notice of Determination
Received
Posted
6/26/2025
Document Description
The Project would include constructing the last conveyance facility intended to receive regional flood flows from the North Indio Hills and Thousand Palms areas. To this point, the Project would improve the Thousand Palms Channel from the Sun City Shadow Hills development located north of Madison Street to the confluence with the CVSC. The Project would improve approximately 5,750 feet of the existing Thousand Palms Channel. The Project would improve the existing earthen Thousand Palms Channel with concrete sidewalls, improve the Avenue 42 channel crossing with 10 side-by-side 14-foot by 9-foot box culverts as a single structure to allow stormwater flows underneath the roadway and limit overtopping, as well as improve the roadways of Avenue 42 and Madison Street where the channel crosses these roadways. Improvements to the roadways include vertical profile changes, repaving, shoulder improvements, and drainage improvements. The Project would help to meet the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) and CVWD’s requirement for flood control and stormwater conveyance of regional flows into the CVSC. The stormwater flows would ultimately discharge into the Salton Sea.
Contact Information
Name
Carlos Huerta
Agency Name
Coachella Valley Water District
Job Title
Environmental Resources Analyst
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
Bermuda Dunes, Indio
Counties
Riverside
Regions
Unincorporated
Other Location Info
The Project is located in the central portion of the greater Coachella Valley within the City of Indio, Riverside County, California. The Community of Bermuda Dunes, a Census-Designated Place, is located approximately 0.8 miles west of the Project. Access to the site is via Interstate 10 (I-10), Indio Boulevard, Madison Street, and Avenue 42. The Thousand Palms Channel runs south-southeast, intersecting Madison Street, Avenue 42, and I-10, before it converges with the Coachella Valley Stormwater Channel (CVSC) at its southern extent.
Notice of Determination
Approving Agency
Coachella Valley Water District
Approving Agency Role
Lead Agency
Approved On
County Clerk
Riverside
Final Environmental Document Available at
This is to certify that the Mitigated Negative Declaration is available to the general public during normal business hours at CVWD’s Steve Robbins Administration Building, located at: 75-515 Hovley Lane East, in Palm Desert, CA 92211.
Determinations
(1) The project will have a significant impact on the environment
No
(2a) An Environmental Impact Report was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
No
(2b) A Mitigated or a Negative Declaration was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
Yes
(2c) An other document type was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
No
(3) Mitigated measures were made a condition of the approval of the project
Yes
(4) A mitigation reporting or monitoring plan was adopted for this project
Yes
(5) A Statement of Overriding Considerations was adopted for this project
No
(6) Findings were made pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
No
Attachments
Notice of Determination
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