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November 8, 2024 Page 22 7357-013acp printed on recycled paper PFAS contamination that would cost-effectively deliver to City residents high- quality, reliable drinking water needs each year.”108 The PFAS within the groundwater beneath the Project site remains and it does not appear the City will make any effort to remediate it. The County’s failure to make any mention, or include any substantive analysis in the DEIR, of the significant PFAS contamination beneath the Project site is a dereliction of the County’s duty to inform the public of the Project’s potentially significant environmental impacts. The County must revise and recirculate the DEIR to accurately measure and mitigate the PFAS contamination on the Project site and adjacent to the Project site. C. The DEIR Fails to Adequately Analyze and Mitigate Significant Greenhouse Gas Emissions CEQA requires public agencies to avoid or reduce environmental damage when “feasible” by requiring consideration of environmentally superior alternatives and adoption of all feasible mitigation measures.109 The EIR serves to provide agencies and the public with information about the environmental impacts of a proposed project and to “identify ways that environmental damage can be avoided or significantly reduced.”110 If the project will have a significant effect on the environment, the agency may approve the project only if it finds that it has “eliminated or substantially lessened all significant effects on the environment” to the greatest extent feasible and that any unavoidable significant effects on the environment are “acceptable due to overriding concerns.”111 The DEIR concludes that both GHG emissions and transportation impacts are significant and unavoidable.112 The DEIR provides that, even with the implementation of mitigation measures MM GHG-1, GHG-2, and MM TRANS-2a and TRANS-2b, the Project still results in significant and unavoidable GHG impacts. SWAPE confirmed that the DEIR’s conclusion that GHG impacts are unavoidable is not supported by substantial evidence. SWAPE confirmed that there 108 City of Pleasanton, News, Pleasanton City Council Approves Two New Water Wells to Meet Long- Term Drinking Water Needs (Oct. 17, 2023), available at: https://www.cityofpleasantonca.gov/news/pleasanton-city-council-approves-two-new-water-wellsto- meet-long-term-drinking-water-needs/. 109 14 C.C.R. § 15002(a)(2), (3); see also Berkeley Jets, 91 Cal.App.4th at 1354; Citizens of Goleta Valley, 52 Cal.3d at 564. 110 14 C.C.R. § 15002(a)(2). 111 Public Resources Code § 21081(a)(3), (b); 14 C.C.R. §§ 15090(a), 15091(a), 15092(b)(2)(A), (B); Covington v. Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control Dist. (2019) 43 Cal.App.5th 867, 883. 112 DEIR, p. ES-18 -19; ES-26.