Steve,
Here is the information I received from Katherine Evatt, the President of the Foothill Conservancy:
Hi, Dustin: I saw all the referrals from the NCFF Board to our website and just logged on -- saw the question re the reservoir locations, etc.
Here's what we know:
The Pardee expansion would involve building a new dam downstream from the current dam. So yes, there would be river lost btwn Pardee and Camanche. Unknown how much.
The expansion would flood the entire Middle Bar reach. Probably wouldn't go up into the Electra Run, but EBMUD staff say it could raise the levels high enough that CalTrans would required building a new Hwy 49 bridge.
The Bear River raise would either be lower or upper Bear. Not sure of extent offhand (and Pete, our expert on the matter, is already in Oakland for the mtg or I'd ask him).
The Bear raise is complicated by PG&E's current proposal to develop a pump-storage project between Salt Springs and either Bear or a new reservoir on Cole Creek. More on that later -- it's a new permit application to FERC that would cycle water up and down through a tunnel, with a powerhouse in the tunnel itself.
Katherine K. Evatt, President
Foothill Conservancy
P.O. Box 1255
Pine Grove, CA 95665
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