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The Sites Reservoir was proposed in the 1950s. [2] California had serious droughts in 1977-1978, 2006–2010, and 2011–2017, raising concern about water insecurity. [3] The project is intended to improve reliability of supply during drought conditions.
As one of the largest reservoir projects in California, the Sites Reservoir is an off-stream water storage project north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It will be located in Sites Valley, 10 ...
In 2023, if Sites Reservoir had been constructed, it could have saved 700,000 acre-feet more water for the future, the amount it takes to supply 1.4 million families for a year.
A coalition of environmental groups appealed a court rejection of their challenge to California’s plan to build Sites Reservoir in a valley north of Sacramento, its first new major reservoir in ...
The proposed $4.5 billion reservoir would inundate nearly 14,000 acres of ranch lands in Glenn and Colusa counties to store water diverted from the Sacramento River through new a system of dams ...
The Los Banos Grandes reservoir was first proposed in 1983 [65] and would have served a similar purpose to Sites. The 1.73 million acre-feet (2.13 km 3 ) reservoir would have been located along the California Aqueduct several miles south of San Luis Reservoir, and would have allowed for the storage of water during wet years when extra water ...
Baldwin Hills Reservoir (1947–1963) - failed December 14, 1963 St. Francis Dam (1926–1928) - failed March 12, 1928 San Clemente Dam - intentionally removed in 2015-2016 because of environmental issues
Yolo County Superior Court ruled in favor of Sites Reservoir, which would capture and store water from the Sacramento River California’s largest reservoir project in decades clears environmental ...