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Home My WebLink AboutAppendix H - Paleo Report 14010 Poway Road, Suite A, Poway, California 92064; Phone (858) 484-0915 April 18, 2024 Norah Jaffan EPD Solutions, Inc. 3333 Michelson Drive, Suite 500 Irvine, California 92612 RE: Paleontological Resources Records Search Results for the 14970 Jurupa Avenue Project, APNs 0237-122-07 and 0237-121-03, Fontana, San Bernardino County, California Dear Ms. Jaffan: At the request of EPD Solutions, Inc., BFSA Environmental Services, a Perennial Company (BFSA), has prepared this paleontological resource records search for the 14970 Jurupa Avenue Project, located at 14970 Jurupa Avenue (Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 0237-122-07 and 0237-121-03) in the city of Fontana, California. This records search encompasses data within a one-mile radius around the project, utilizing paleontological locality data from the San Bernardino County Museum (SBCM) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (LACM). The results of the records search identified one previously recorded resource within one mile of the subject property. The closest fossil locality is a partial skull of Smilodon, the saber- toothed cat, located south of (or below) Jurupa Avenue approximately between Live Oak Avenue and Catawba Avenue at a depth of approximately five feet (SBCM locality [loc.] 5.1.11; Reynolds, in Aron et al. 2018; Cortez 2021). This places the proximity of the locality as close as a few tens of feet, to as much as a mile going east. Seven localities (SBCM locs. 5.1.14 to 5.1.17 and 5.1.19 to 5.1.21) are situated about a mile and a half west project. The bones of large and small Pleistocene-age mammals as well as terrestrial snails and freshwater clams were recovered from these localities, mostly from clayey, silty sands from depths ranging from five to 21 feet below the surface, when recorded. Mammals from these localities include three species of rodent, cottontail rabbit, bison, western camel, horse, Pacific mastodon, and other unidentified large mammal remains. The nearest LACM-based fossil locality is about seven miles to the southwest in Eastvale (LACM loc. 7811) and consists of the bones of a Pleistocene snake (Bell 2024). Based on the presence of nearby fossil localities at shallow depths and City of Fontana guidelines regarding the preservation of paleontological resources (City of Fontana 2018a, 2018b), paleontological monitoring is recommended for this project. BFSA Environmental Services, a Perennial Company — Page 2 If you have any questions concerning this evaluation, please feel free to contact us at our Poway office. Thank you for the opportunity to provide paleontological services for this project. Sincerely, Todd Wirths, M.S., P.G. No. 7588 Senior Paleontologist, California Professional Geologist References: Bell, A. 2024. Paleontological resources for the Reservoir 6 and Almond Street Waterline Replacement Project. Unpublished letter report prepared for BFSA Environmental Services, Poway, California, by the Division of Research & Collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California. City of Fontana. 2018a. Final Environmental Impact Report. Cultural Resources, Fontana Forward General Plan Update 2015-2035. State Clearinghouse #2016021099. https://www.fontana.org/DocumentCenter/View/29525/Final-Environmental-Impact- Report-for-the-General-Plan-Update. City of Fontana. 2018b. Draft Environmental Impact Report, Chapter 5.4. Cultural Resources, Fontana Forward General Plan Update 2015-2035. https://www.fontana.org/Document Center/View/26716/54-Cultural-Resources. Cortez, C. 2021. Paleontology records review for proposed 14801 Slover Avenue Project in San Bernardino County, California. Unpublished letter report prepared for Brian F. Smith and Associates, Inc., Poway, California, by the Division of Earth Sciences at the San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, California. Reynolds, R.E. 2018. West Valley Connector, Geology and Paleontological Resources, in Aron, G., Richards, C., and Webster, B., Paleontological Identification Report and Evaluation Report, West Valley Connector Project. Unpublished consulting report prepared for the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority, by Paleo Solutions, Inc., Monrovia, California.