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The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria plans to build its casino on a 260 acre site that is bordered by Rohnert
Park Expressway to the South, Stony Point Road to the West, Wilfred Avenue to the North and Labath Aenue to the East. The
casino itself is proposed for a parcel 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 will probably be the site of the casino's large (two to ten acre) sewage treatment plant..
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.
| Looking East Toward Rohnert Park |
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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.
| Looking North West from Rohnert Park Area |
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| Looking West Over Rohnert Park to Casino Site |
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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 |
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Stop the Casino 101 Coalition, Rohnert Park, CA
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