Updated: Apr 7
We held our initial official meeting with Mayor Larry Agran and City Manager Oliver Chi on March 26, 2025 (Wednesday) at the city hall to discuss the landfill expansion and the proposed new renewable natural gas plant. Attached is the presentation Oliver shared during the meeting.
Key Points from the report:
The Project will consist of three “localities” where disturbances will occur: the new Project RNG Plant, the new SoCalGas pipeline, and the existing soil stockpile area.
The RNG Plant site involves 3.52 acres of part of the undeveloped land leased to Bowerman Power by OCWR.
The new SoCalGas pipeline will run from the POR within the RNG Plant boundary, down Bee Canyon Access Road to the existing SoCalGas pipeline on the corner of Portola Parkway and Jeffery Road. The new SoCalGas pipeline will be approximately 2.0 miles in length along Bee Canyon Access Road and approximately 0.4 mile in length along Portola Parkway, for a total of 2.4 miles.
The LFG not processed by the Bowerman Power Plant is incinerated at the flare station. The RNG Plant will be designed to process the excess LFG that would otherwise require incineration at the existing adjacent flare station, and then deliver the processed RNG to SoCalGas.
The RNG Plant will be designed to process a maximum of 6,000 scfm of raw LFG at the inlet. The process will remove nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, sulfur hydroxide, volatile organic chemicals, hydrogen sulfide, as well as other minor impurities to meet the gas specifications of SoCalGas.
Construction is anticipated to begin in the first quarter of 2025 and is expected to occur over a span of 2 years, with the majority of the emitting construction phases overlapping during a 1-year period.
The Project site is located in a State Responsibility Area (SRA) Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone (OSFM 2023).
The Project RNG Plant site and the new SoCalGas pipeline route and the neighboring open space and park lands are in a high fire hazard severity zone.