To: Board of Supervisors
From: Public Works
Agenda Section: Time Certain Matter
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9:15 a.m. - Letters to the Sites Project Authority and Bureau of Reclamation Regarding Sites Reservoir Project
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Receive public input on potential impacts from the Sites Reservoir Project on Humboldt County's Trinity River interests; and
2. Authorize the Chair of the Board to sign the two (2) attached letters to the Sites Project Authority and Bureau of Reclamation.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
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DISCUSSION:
The Sites Reservoir Project is a proposed off-stream storage facility located in Glenn and Colusa counties, approximately ten (10) miles west of the town of Maxwell (Attachment 1). The facility would include an approximately one point eight (1.8) million acre-feet water storage reservoir with associated dams, diversion structures, pipelines, electrical generating facilities, overhead powerlines, roads and bridges. The reservoir would be filled through the diversion of winter flows from the Sacramento River at two (2) existing diversion sites with existing canals and a proposed new diversion structure and pipeline. The facility would be owned and operated by the Sites Project Authority, a joint powers authority formed by several irrigation districts. Funding for construction is proposed from the Water Supply Investment Program of Proposition 1, passed in 2014. The facility is intended to be integrated with the Federal Central Valley Project and State Water Project systems.
The Trinity River Division of the Central Valley Project diverts water stored in Trinity Lake into the Sacramento River through the Clear Creek tunnel and Whiskeytown Lake. Humboldt County has a vested interest in the Central Valley Project because the county holds a water contract with the Bureau of Reclamation for annual releases of not less than fifty thousand (50,000) acre-feet from Trinity Lake in...
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