Tuesday Top of the Scroll: Newsom accelerates plans for California’s largest reservoir in nearly 50 years
Gov. Gavin Newsom exercised his new power under state law Monday to help get a giant reservoir planned for Northern California on the fast track for approval. The proposed $4.5 billion Sites Reservoir, envisioned 70 miles north of Sacramento, would be the first major reservoir built in California in nearly half a century. … Newsom pushed the infrastructure legislation, even threatening to veto the Legislature’s budget bills if it didn’t move forward, hoping to accelerate climate plans he worried could be hamstrung by state environmental rules. … Still, the project has faced criticism, namely because any additional water taken from the Sacramento River represents a loss for fish, wildlife and the natural landscapes nourished by the river.
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