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Amador County joins Pardee Reservoir expansion opponents

Posted by: Maven on April 30, 2009 at 11:52 am

From YubaNet.com:

In a unanimous vote Tuesday, April 28, the Amador County Board of Supervisors joined other government agencies, organizations and individuals in opposing the proposed expansion of Pardee Reservoir on the Mokelumne River. The East Bay Municipal Utilities District has included the Pardee expansion project as part of the “preferred portfolio” in its Water Supply Management Plan 2040. EBMUD gets 90 percent of its water supply from the Mokelumne.

“We’re proud of our supervisors for standing with local people and for the Mokelumne River,” said Foothill Conservancy Executive Director Chris Wright. “They obviously recognize the importance of the river to local residents, visitors and our economy.”

As described in the related draft programmatic environmental impact report, the Pardee expansion would raise the existing level of the reservoir by 33 feet and its flood storage level by 46 feet. The project would require construction of a dam at least 400-feet high, downstream of the existing Pardee Dam.

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April 30, 2009 · Filed Under Bay Area

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