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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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
The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a major dam as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).