Jerry Brown, executive director for the Sites Project Authority, said the Sites Reservoir Project reached another major milestone in December with the completion of the draft Environmental Impact Report/Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement public comment period – bringing the project one step closer to fruition. 

The project, which has been in the works for more than 60 years, hopes to turn the Sites Valley located 10 miles west of Maxwell where Colusa and Glenn counties meet, into a state-of-the-art off-stream water storage facility that captures and stores stormwater flows in the Sacramento River – after all other water rights and regulatory requirements are met – for release in dry and critical years for environmental use and for communities, farms and businesses statewide to utilize when it is needed.

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