$205 million from Congress is latest boost for Sites Reservoir. But can it overcome opposition?
A drone view of the landscape near unincorporated Sites, Calif., on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Congress has awarded $205 million to the Sites Reservoir, proposed to be constructed in rural Colusa County. The 1.5 million-acre-foot reservoir would be California’s eighth largest at 13-miles long and would submerge some of the area shown.
Brown was also the former general manager of the Contra Costa Water District, where he oversaw expansion of Los Vaqueros Reservoir 15 years ago. With the newest funding approved by Congress, the project now has more than 90% of its financing lined up, Brown said, a major hurdle that has killed dozens of other large water storage projects around the state in recent decades.A $2.2 billion loan that the U.S.
The district, based in San Jose, provides water to 2 million people. It has contributed $2 million so far to Sites for planning and is considering offering up to $130 million more, which would provide it about 37,400 acre-feet of storage — nearly twice the volume of Lexington Reservoir near Los Gatos.
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