The Sites Project Authority is pursuing a water right permit from the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), which will provide them legal authority to divert water within certain conditions, for a specific purpose, and for use within a specified area. The Authority will be the State designated steward of the water right for the Sites Reservoir Project.
The Authority is in the process of obtaining a water right permit for the Project:
- On August 19, 2024, the Sites Project water right hearing began and is expected to continue through at least January 2025.
- On March 1, 2024, the State Water Board issued a Notice of Public Hearing and Pre-hearing Conference and has issued several amended notices since then.
- On June 2, 2023, the State Water Board issued public notice of the water right application for the Sites Reservoir Project.
- On May 5, 2023, the State Water Board deemed the amended application sufficient to proceed with public notice of the application.
- On January 6, 2023, the Sites Project Authority submitted an amended application for the Sites Reservoir Project. The amended application can be accessed through the eWRIMS Database System.
- On August 26, 2022, the State Water Board accepted the Sites Project Authority’s water right application and requested information missing from the application before proceeding forward with processing the application.
- A water rights application (Application A025517X01) was filed by the Sites Project Authority for the Sites Reservoir Project on May 11, 2022. The application can be accessed through the eWRIMS Database System.
For more information on the Sites Water Right process and for all hearing notices, please visit the State Water Board website.