News release: Reclamation and partners complete negotiations for the B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion Project
The Bureau of Reclamation and the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority [on Nov. 13] announced a negotiated consensus has been met for the B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion Project. The joint project creates an additional 130,000 acre-feet of storage space in San Luis Reservoir, the nation’s largest off-stream reservoir, producing additional water supply for two million people, over one million acres of farmland and 135,000 acres of Pacific Flyway wetlands and critical wildlife habitat. Reclamation signed the Record of Decision for the project on Oct. 20, 2023, the first approval of a major water storage project in California since 2011.
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