加州批准 Sites 水库取水许可：150万英亩-英尺新水库过关键关口
加州水资源委员会（State Water Resources Control Board）11月4日批准 Sites 水库项目的取水许可。这座规划库容150万英亩-英尺的水库将建在加利福尼亚州 Glenn County 与 Colusa County，从 Sacramento River 引水蓄存，是加州50多年来规划兴建的最大一座水库。
按许可条款，项目每年最多可从 Sacramento River 引水98.6万英亩-英尺，在河流水量较高时引水储存，供农场、城市与生态环境后续使用，这一引水量约可供840万人一年使用。项目利用既有设施在 Red Bluff 与 Hamilton City 附近引水，存入两地以西17英里处的水库，之后再经既有渠道与河道系统放水供各蓄水伙伴使用。
该许可的审理历时两年：委员会行政听证办公室主持的听证共举行32天，41方参与，60名证人出庭，证据文件达2,115份。修订后的决定与许可草案今年9月3日公布征求意见，委员会在11月4日的公开会议上审议并批准。
南加州都会水区（Metropolitan Water District of Southern California）总经理 Shivaji Deshmukh 当天发表声明说：「今天批准的取水权是 Sites 水库项目的基础。」都会水区是该项目潜在的最大投资方，份额最高可达22%，自2017年以来已投入约3,100万美元用于项目的规划、许可与环境审查；该区表示，董事会将依据此次决定的具体内容，评估参与项目融资与建设的程度。
Sites 水库由 Sites Project Authority 提出，参与方包括州与联邦机构、Sacramento 谷地与 San Joaquin 谷地的公共灌溉区，以及湾区与南加州的城市供水商。加州的州级目标是到2040年新增900万英亩-英尺的供水或蓄水能力，以增强气候韧性与长期供水可靠性，Sites 水库是这一目标的一部分。
California Approves Water Right Permit for Sites Reservoir, a 1.5 Million-Acre-Foot Project
The California State Water Resources Control Board on November 4 approved a water right permit for the Sites Reservoir project. The proposed 1.5 million-acre-foot reservoir, to be built in Glenn County and Colusa County, California, would divert and store water from the Sacramento River and would be the largest reservoir built in California in more than 50 years.
Under the permit, the project may divert up to 986,000 acre-feet of water per year from the Sacramento River when flows are relatively high, storing it for farms, cities and the environment — an annual amount enough to supply about 8.4 million people. The project would use existing infrastructure to divert water near Red Bluff and Hamilton City and store it 17 miles to the west, later releasing it back to existing canals and the river system for use by storage partners.
The permit followed two years of proceedings overseen by the board's Administrative Hearing Office: 32 hearing days, 41 parties, 60 witnesses and 2,115 evidentiary documents. A revised draft decision and permit were released for public comment on September 3, and the board considered and adopted them at its November 4 public meeting.
Shivaji Deshmukh, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, said in a statement the same day: "The water right approved today is the foundation of the Sites Reservoir Project." Metropolitan is potentially the largest investor in the project, with up to a 22% share, and has invested approximately $31 million since 2017 in planning, permitting and environmental review; it said its board will use the decision to evaluate its level of participation, if any, in financing and construction.
The reservoir is proposed by the Sites Project Authority, whose participants include state and federal agencies, public irrigation districts in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, and urban water suppliers serving the Bay Area and Southern California. California's statewide goal is to add 9 million acre-feet of new water supply or capacity by 2040 to strengthen climate resilience and long-term water reliability, and Sites Reservoir is part of that goal.
来源：加州水资源委员会
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图片来源：图：Red Bluff 附近的 Sacramento River，Sites 水库将从这条河引水蓄存。照片由美国鱼类及野生动物管理局 Steve Martarano 拍摄，公共领域，来源 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Sacramento River near Red Bluff, from which Sites Reservoir will divert and store water. Photo by Steve Martarano, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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