Grading: Any excavating, filling of land, or combination thereof.
Greenhouse Gases: Gases in the earth's atmosphere that produce the greenhouse effect. Changes in the concentration of certain greenhouse gases, due to human activity such as fossil fuel burning, increase the risk of global climate change. Greenhouse gases include water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, halogenated fluorocarbons, ozone, perfluorinated carbons, and hydro fluorocarbons.
Ground Failure: Mudslide, landslide, liquefaction, or the compaction of soils due to ground shaking from an earthquake.
Ground Shaking: Ground movement resulting from the transmission of seismic waves during an earthquake.
Groundwater: Water that occurs beneath the land surface and fills the pore spaces of the alluvium, soil, or rock formation in which it is situated. It excludes soil moisture, which refers to water held by capillary action in the upper unsaturated zones of soil or rock.
Groundwater Basin: Any basin identified in the CDWR’s California's Groundwater: Bulletin No. 118 (September 1975, updated 2003), and any amendments to that bulletin, but does not include a basin in which the average well yield, excluding domestic wells that supply water to a single-unit dwelling, is less than 100 gallons per minute.
Groundwater Table: The upper surface of the zone of saturation in an unconfined aquifer.
Habitable: As used in the Draft EIR, “habitable structures” refers to structures designed for human occupancy, including residential, and non-residential (e.g., commercial) structures.
Habitat: The specific area or environment in which a particular type of plant or animal lives. An organism’s habitat must provide the basic requirements for life.
Habitat Conservation Plans: Authorized under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service, these plans, known “HCPs,” provide a clear regulatory mechanism to permit the incidental take of federally listed fish and wildlife species by private interests and non-federal government agencies during lawful land, water, and ocean use activities.
Hazardous Material: Any material that, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, or chemical characteristics, poses a significant present or potential hazard to human health and safety or to the environment if released into the workplace or the environment.
Hazardous materials include, but are not limited to, hazardous substances, hazardous waste, and any material that a handler or an administering agency has a reasonable basis for believing would be injurious to the health and safety of persons or harmful to the