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The Sites Reservoir is a proposed offstream reservoir project west of Colusa in the Sacramento Valley of northern California to be built and operated by the Sites Project Authority. The project would divert water from the Sacramento River upstream of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta through existing canals to a new reservoir 14 miles ...
The proposed $4.5 billion Sites Reservoir on ranch lands in Glenn and Colusa counties would be California’s first major reservoir in nearly 50 years. It is designed to capture more water from ...
Nov. 7—What would be one of the largest reservoir projects in California in the last 50 years received a boost on Monday from Gov. Gavin Newsom after he certified the Sites Reservoir Project ...
Yolo County Superior Court ruled in favor of Sites Reservoir, which would capture and store water from the Sacramento River
This project has previously arisen in several forms, including proposals for a Glenn Reservoir or the Glenn-Colusa Complex on nearby streams, which would also have been receiving reservoirs for water sent east through the Dos Rios Project's Grindstone Tunnel or other transfers from North Coast rivers. [62]
The project is highly controversial because it would flood scenic canyons and historic sites along the San Joaquin River, and impact upstream hydroelectricity generation. The Bureau of Reclamation estimates the construction costs will be between US$2.5 billion and $2.6 billion, [ 2 ] while other estimates range from $2.96 billion up to $3.35 ...
Jul. 27—Sites Reservoir, a proposed water storage facility 10 miles west of Maxwell, received another monetary boost Thursday with the announcement that it is part of a $152 million investment ...
The project envisioned a 218-foot (66 m) concrete gravity dam, 700 feet (210 m) wide, and a 5,680-foot (1,730 m) wide earthfill dike. The dam was to have a gated overflow spillway in the concrete section. The reservoir was projected at 3,480-acre (1,410 ha), holding 338,000-acre-foot (0.417 km 3). The reservoir was projected to inundate fertile ...