{"id":229220,"date":"2026-03-20T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/229220\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:53:08","slug":"public-comments-needed-for-sacramentos-sites-reservoir-proposal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/229220\/","title":{"rendered":"Public comments needed for Sacramento&#8217;s Sites Reservoir proposal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8211; The State Water Resources Control Board released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterboards.ca.gov\/water_issues\/programs\/administrative_hearings_office\/sites-project-authority.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">draft water right decision<\/a> and permit for the proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/sitesproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sites Reservoir<\/a>, inviting public review and comments.<\/p>\n<p>The reservoir is planned to store and divert 1.5 million acre-feet of water from the Sacramento River for agriculture, municipal use, and wildlife preservation.<\/p>\n<p>The Sites Project Authority applied for a water right permit in May 2022. Following a protest period, the board&#8217;s Administrative Hearings Office reviewed the application, involving 21 parties and 60 witnesses over 32 hearing days.<\/p>\n<p>The draft decision includes conditions to limit annual diversions to 986,000 acre-feet, align with Bay-Delta watershed planning, and protect fisheries. Existing infrastructure will divert water near Red Bluff and Hamilton City, with new facilities in Glenn and Colusa counties.<\/p>\n<p>Public comments are open until May 22, after which the draft may be revised. A second comment period will follow before the final decision.<\/p>\n<p>A water quality certification application is also pending for the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8211; The State Water Resources Control Board released a draft water right decision and permit for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3671,972,100,121,123,122,136],"class_list":["post-229220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-covering-california","tag-local","tag-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}