On September 25th, the Nevada Irrigation District voted on the future of their proposed Centennial Dam project, a $1 billion project that the South Yuba River Citizen’s League (SYRCL) has rallied the community in opposition to since its inception. … In August of 2014, the Nevada Irrigation District (NID) began planning to construct a new 275-foot-tall dam and reservoir on the Bear River between the existing Rollins and Combie reservoirs. The water agency’s proposed new 110,000 acre-foot reservoir with a 275 foot-tall dam on the Bear River would have inundated six miles of the Bear River, completely flooding the Bear River Campground, more than 25 homes and 120 parcels, hundreds of cultural and sacred Native American sites, and the Dog Bar Bridge, the only crossing of the Bear River between Highway 49 and Highway 174. … Now, NID has voted to withdraw its water rights application and to discontinue all feasibility, environmental, and other analyses in support of the proposed Centennial Reservoir Project. 

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