January Storms Flood San Luis Bay Estates

“Water, Water Everywhere, nor any a drop to drink”. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

That familiar saying has a lot of truth to it with successive bomb cyclones that have hit us so far this winter. The bulk of it is flowing out to the ocean partially because we haven’t built two big reservoirs that have been in study and holdups for 30 to 40 years — Auburn Dam on the American River and the newly approved Sites Reservoir 14 miles west of the Sacramento River near Maxwell in Colusa County. The water from the river will be pumped into the reservoir using some of the existing canals.

Sites is scheduled to begin construction next year and finish in 2030 and will hold about half of Oroville Dam’s volume. Our governor is saying things like we need more water storage, but this only happens when we have