Operations of the Sites Reservoir Project (California Endangered Species Act Incidental Take Permit No. 2081-2023-051-00 (ITP))
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Summary
SCH Number
2001112009
Lead Agency
Site Project Authority
(SPA)
Document Title
Operations of the Sites Reservoir Project (California Endangered Species Act Incidental Take Permit No. 2081-2023-051-00 (ITP))
Document Type
NOD - Notice of Determination
Received
Posted
10/28/2024
Document Description
This proposed Project is limited to: (1) Permittee’s diversion of upper Sacramento River water from the Bureau of Reclamation’s Red Bluff Pumping Plant and the Glenn Colusa Irrigation Districts Hamilton City Pump Station to divert a combined total of up to 986 thousand acre-feet (TAF) annually; (2) Permittee facilitated water exchanges with Oroville Reservoir of up to 136 TAF annually; (3) Permittee facilitated water exchanges with Shasta Reservoir of up to 188 TAF annually; (4) Permittee facilitated real-time exchanges and transfers between participants of up to 160 TAF annually; (5) Permittee releases of up to 139 TAF annually for north-of-Delta participants and wildlife refuges north-of-Delta; (6) Permittee releases of up to 637 TAF annually for downstream and south-of-Delta participants into the Tehama Colusa Canal, Colusa Basin Drain, and the Knights Landing Outfall Gates to the (lower) Sacramento River and releases into Knights Landing Ridge Cut to the Yolo Bypass through Wallace Weir; and (7) Limited fish screen maintenance activities associated with the Permittee’s diversions at the Red Bluff Pumping Plant and Hamilton City Pump Station diversion facilities.
Contact Information
Name
Kristal Davis Fadtke
Agency Name
Department of Fish and Wildlife
Job Title
Environmental Program Manager I
Contact Types
Responsible Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Maxwell
Counties
Colusa, Glenn
Regions
Countywide
Other Location Info
Project Location (include county): The Operations of the Sites Reservoir Project consists of a newly constructed off-stream reservoir with a 1.5-million-acre feet storage capacity and associated water conveyance facilities, west of the community of Maxwell in Glenn and Colusa Counties (Latitude 39.30908, Longitude -122.34022). The Project will divert water from the upper Sacramento River utilizing two previously existing water diversions, fish screen facilities, and pumping stations. The primary diversion facility is the Red Bluff Pumping Plant, and the secondary diversion facility is the Hamilton City Pump Station. Water diversions from the primary and secondary
diversion facilities to the Sites Reservoir will be conveyed via previously existing and newly constructed facilities within the Tehama Colusa Canal, Glenn Colusa Irrigation District Main Canal and Funks Reservoir. Newly constructed facilities for the Project include a Terminal Regulating Reservoir, pump generating plants, and inlet-outlet works facilities that will convey water to and from the Sites Reservoir. The Project will also conduct operational exchanges with the State Water Project and Central Valley Project reservoirs, and real-time exchanges of water and transfers with participants.
Water releases for downstream participants will be conveyed through existing canals within the Tehama Colusa Canal, Glenn Colusa Irrigation District Main Canal and Colusa Basin Drain. The Project will also construct a new pipeline, the Dunnigan Pipeline, and associated outfall that will convey water from the Tehama Colusa Canal to the previously existing Colusa Basin Drain. All water conveyed in the Colusa Basin Drain will be released at two previously existing locations. The primary release location at the Knights Landing Outfall Gates will release water into the lower Sacramento River. The secondary location will release water through the Knights Landing Ridge Cut into the Yolo Bypass through the Wallace Weir. The direction of flow from the Colusa Basin Drain to Knights Landing Outfall Gates or Knights Landing Ridgecut is determined by the operation of the gates at Knights Landing Outfall Gates and Wallace Weir. Knights Landing Outfall Gates and Wallace Weir are operated by the California Department of Water Resources and Reclamation District 108. The previously existing and newly constructed conveyance facilities are located in Tehama County, Glenn County, Colusa County, and Yolo County, in the State of California. Project operations will occur in the facilities described above and, in all fish-bearing waterways within the Project Area that include the Sacramento River, Sutter Bypass floodplain, Yolo Bypass floodplain, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Suisun Marsh, and Suisun Bay.
Notice of Determination
Approving Agency
Department of Fish and Wildlife
Approving Agency Role
Responsible Agency
Approved On
County Clerk
Yolo
Final Environmental Document Available at
Sites Project Authority
P.O. Box 517, Maxwell, CA 95955
Contact: Alicia Forsythe
Phone: (530) 428-2309
Determinations
(1) The project will have a significant impact on the environment
No
(2a) An Environmental Impact Report was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
Yes
(2b) A Mitigated or a Negative Declaration was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
No
(2c) An other document type was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
No
(3) Mitigated measures were made a condition of the approval of the project
Yes
(4) A mitigation reporting or monitoring plan was adopted for this project
Yes
(5) A Statement of Overriding Considerations was adopted for this project
No
(6) Findings were made pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
Yes
Attachments
Notice of Determination
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