PRESS RELEASE: New Analysis Finds Sites Reservoir Would Be 80 Percent Full After Recent Storms If It Were Operational Today Sites Project Authority Water project operations February 17, 20242023 and 2024 storms combined would have yielded 1.2 million acre-feet of water From the Sites JPA The Sites Project...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Conservation groups sue over Sites Reservoir project Courthouse News Service Water rights and water law December 21, 2023By Adam Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service A legal challenge was filed Wednesday in Yolo County Superior Court over one of...
PRESS RELEASE: Lawsuit: Sites Reservoir Proposal Threatens River, Climate, Fish Center for Biological Diversity Water rights and water law December 20, 2023From the Center for Biological Diversity: Conservation and environmental justice groups filed a legal challenge today to the largest reservoir...
SITES RESERVOIR: Notice of assignment to the Administrative Hearings Office Maven ANNOUNCEMENTS December 6, 2023From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board’s Executive Director has assigned to the Administrative...
PRESS RELEASE: Sites Reservoir Reaches Milestone in Environmental Review Process Sites Project Authority Policy and regulation November 17, 2023Press release from the Sites JPA The Sites Project Authority, as the lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act,...
PRESS RELEASE: Friends of the River, Sierra Club, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance Condemn Today’s Hastened Approval of Sites Reservoir’s Environmental Impact Report Conservation organizations & coalitions Policy and regulation November 17, 2023Press release from Friends of the River, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, and the Sierra Club On November 17, members of...
AG ALERT: Sites Reservoir on fast track for final legal green light Ag Alert Policy and regulation November 15, 2023By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert After decades of discussions and delays, a major new reservoir in Northern California is close...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: California governor taps new law to streamline Sites Reservoir project Courthouse News Service Policy and regulation November 6, 2023The Sites Reservoir Project is slated to hold up to 1.5 million acre-feet of water, enough for 3 million households...
THIS JUST IN … Governor Newsom Streamlines Sites Reservoir Project Office of Governor Gavin Newsom Policy and regulation November 6, 2023Press release from the Office of the Governor: Today, Governor Gavin Newsom took action to accelerate the Sites Reservoir project, utilizing...
THIS JUST IN … Reclamation and Sites Project Authority finalize plans to create new water storage in Northern California Bureau of Reclamation News Water project operations November 2, 2023Sites Reservoir would increase California’s existing water supply by providing 1.5 million acre-feet of additional storage capacity to the state...
PRESS RELEASE: Coalition urges the Newsom administration to reject the Sites Project Authority’s rushed application for regulatory streamlining Conservation organizations & coalitions Policy and regulation October 25, 2023Today, Friends of the River, Defenders of Wildlife, and a coalition of conservation organizations submitted a letter to the Governor’s...
NOTICE: Sites Reservoir requests certification as an infrastructure project under SB 149 Sites Project Authority Policy and regulation October 11, 2023From the Office of Planning and Research: Sites Reservoir has requested certification as an infrastructure project under SB 149 SB...
PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Conservation Groups Unite in Opposition To Sites Reservoir, Formally Protest Water Right Conservation organizations & coalitions CommentaryWater rights and water law September 1, 2023Friends of the River (FOR) and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), two of California’s oldest and most respected water...
PRESS RELEASE: Scientific Report: Yearly Greenhouse Gas Pollution From Proposed Sites Dam and Reservoir Project Would Equal 80,000 Gas-Powered Cars Conservation organizations & coalitions Policy and regulation August 24, 2023New Patagonia & Friends of the River Study Estimates the Proposed Dam’s Annual Emissions Press release from Friends of the...
PRESS RELEASE: Biden-Harris Administration Invests $50 Million in California Water Storage Projects Bureau of Reclamation News Water project operations July 27, 2023Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion Project, Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion, and Sites Reservoir Project to receive funding From the...
