跟进：Sites水库许可条款公布 引水限11月至6月中旬、只取富余水
加州水资源委员会（State Water Resources Control Board）发布正式新闻稿，公布11月4日批准的 Sites 水库取水许可的环保条件：项目只能在每年11月至次年6月中旬引水，且引水时河水必须在满足在先取水权人、三角洲水质与鱼类需求之后仍有富余。
本次批准只涵盖从 Sacramento River 引水。项目地附近 Funks Creek 与 Stone Corral Creek 两条小溪能否也取水，将在2027年1月开始的另一场听证中单独决定。
Sites 水库位于 Sacramento 西北约65英里、Maxwell 以西10英里处，是一座离河蓄水工程，规划库容150万英亩-英尺，利用既有与新建基础设施从 Red Bluff 与 Hamilton City 附近引水蓄存。许可允许每年最多引水98.6万英亩-英尺，约可供840万人一年使用；建成后将是加州50多年来最大的地表水蓄水工程。
许可要求项目遵守刚更新的《旧金山湾—萨克拉门托–圣华金三角洲水质控制计划》（Bay-Delta Plan），并列明多项环保措施：只在水量较高时引水的旁通流量要求、鱼类洄游期限制引水、留出一部分蓄水供野生动物保护区使用、引水设施装设防鱼隔网、开展新的研究以确认最低旁通流量不会对鱼类造成不合理伤害，以及对水库放水的水质要求，以防范有害藻华、水温过高与汞含量升高。
委员会主席 E. Joaquin Esquivel 说：「气候变化已经到来，我们必须以新的方式管理水资源来适应它。在有健全环保措施的前提下，扩大蓄水以增加供水是合理的。」他还表示，上周通过的 Bay-Delta Plan 更新已为这类项目建立了持久框架，使其既能保护重要河流系统，又能灵活开发加州适应水文波动所需的新水源。
建成后，水库蓄水将经渠道或河道系统供参与项目的各方使用，包括州与联邦机构、Sacramento Valley 与 San Joaquin Valley 的公共灌溉区，以及湾区与南加州的城市供水商。此次决定是委员会行政听证办公室两年程序的结果：听证共举行32天，41方参与，60名证人作证，证据文件超过2,100份，委员会在今年3月与9月两轮公开征求意见后通过最终决定。
（来源：加州水资源委员会）
Follow-Up: Sites Reservoir Permit Terms Published — Diversions Limited to November to Mid-June, Surplus Water Only
The California State Water Resources Control Board has issued its formal press release publishing the environmental conditions of the Sites Reservoir water right permit approved on November 4: the project may divert water only between November and mid-June each year, and only when water is surplus to the needs of senior water right holders, Delta water quality and fish.
The approval covers only diversions from the Sacramento River. Whether the project may also capture water from Funks Creek and Stone Corral Creek, two local streams at the reservoir site, will be decided in a separate hearing that begins in January 2027.
Sites Reservoir, located about 65 miles northwest of Sacramento and 10 miles west of Maxwell, is an off-stream storage project with a planned capacity of 1.5 million acre-feet. It will use new and existing infrastructure to transfer water from the river near Red Bluff and Hamilton City. The permit allows diversions of up to 986,000 acre-feet per year, enough to supply about 8.4 million people annually, and the reservoir would be the largest surface water storage infrastructure built in California in more than 50 years.
The permit requires compliance with the newly updated Bay-Delta Plan, and lists a series of environmentally protective measures: bypass flow requirements so water is diverted only during relatively high flows, restrictions on diversions during periods of fish migration, authorization for a portion of the stored water to be used for wildlife refuges, screens that prevent fish from being drawn into diversion facilities, new studies to confirm that minimum bypass flow requirements will prevent unreasonable harm to fish, and water quality requirements on reservoir releases to protect the river and Delta from harmful algal blooms, high temperatures and elevated mercury levels.
"Climate change is here, and we must lean into new ways of managing water to adapt to it. Expanding opportunities to increase supplies through storage makes sense, with robust environmental protections in place," said Board Chair E. Joaquin Esquivel. He added that the adoption of last week's Bay-Delta Plan update established a durable framework that enables projects like Sites to operate in a way that protects important river systems while remaining flexible enough for new water supplies.
Once completed, the project will deliver water through canals or the river system to its proponents, which 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. The decision is the culmination of proceedings conducted by the board's Administrative Hearings Office over two years: hearings on 32 separate days, 41 parties, 60 witnesses and more than 2,100 evidentiary documents, with the board adopting the final decision after two public comment periods on drafts released in March and September.
(Source: California State Water Resources Control Board)
来源：加州水资源委员会
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图片来源：图：Sacramento River 上的 Red Bluff 分水坝航拍，该坝向 Tehama-Colusa Canal 与 Corning Canal 分水，是 Sites 水库引水所用既有设施之一。照片由美国垦务局拍摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，来源 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Aerial view of the Red Bluff Diversion Dam on the Sacramento River, which diverts water into the Tehama-Colusa and Corning canals, part of the existing infrastructure the Sites project will use. Photo by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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