Calling all water users: If you would like to buy in on water from a future Sites Reservoir, now is the time.

Plans for Sites Reservoir are moving forward, with a deadline of June 2017 to ask the state Water Commission to pay for half of the estimated $4.4 billion construction cost. Sacramento Valley water users had the first chance to ask for (and pay for) a future of the water supply pie. Sacramento Valley water districts are on paper to purchase about 128,000 acre-feet of water annually.