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Sites Reservoir would operate as a flexible water storage solution by diverting water from the Sacramento River during high flows, after all other water rights and regulatory requirements are met, and storing it until water is needed in drier years. Unlike other major reservoirs, Sites would not dam a major river or rely on snowmelt.
Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central Valley. The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake, with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3).
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 ...
California is one step closer to building its largest water storage facility in nearly 50 years, after a court ruled in favor of the Sites Reservoir project following a challenge by environmental ...
Lake Oroville has a capacity to store approximately 3.54 million acre-feet (4.37 km 3) of water which accounts for 61 percent of the SWP's total system storage capacity, and is the single most important reservoir of the project. [25] Water stored in Lake Oroville is released through the 819 MW Edward Hyatt pumped-storage powerplant [28] and two ...
The Bureau of Reclamation said in its announcement that the Trump administration is also investing more than $315 million in new water storage projects, including plans to build Sites Reservoir ...