Sites Reservoir Project Takes Step Forward

Efforts to create a new reservoir in Northern California took a step forward Tuesday. The Sites Project Authority issued a “notice of preparation,” which is the first step in the environmental review process. “Californians made a bold and innovative decision to invest in new water storage when they overwhelmingly approved Proposition 1 in 2014,” Authority board president Kim Dolbow Vann said in a statement. “The Sites Project makes sense for California — which is why it has strong, diverse and bipartisan support across the state — and why it is important to move this environmental review forward.”