Dustin Rocksvold wrote:
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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Thanks Dustin
i guess im opposeed to this for selfish reasons ,
there is only a short streach below pardee before it becomes an arm of comanchee,
so consider this will all be gone, this is a hard to reach areas and few ever fish it ,,, but its a special place i keep in my back pocket.
loosing below 49 and middle is another little gem lost ,another special place .
the $#@#$ yackers also will be %$#$% up because this is part of thier electra run and the take out point for them
what was that pdf map of a proposed Buckhorn res ? there was no geographic ref on it so ,im lost ,,,we both know where buckhorn is and that dosent fit any of the proposals .
i would like to see a rendering of the new pardee ,and how electra would flow into it ,,,it could turn electra into a dead water arm of pardee .
they must have drawings if they are pursing this.
Blaaaaaa
thanks
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