SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-East Nicolaus) celebrated today’s announcement that the Trump administration will provide an additional $200 million for the Sites Reservoir project in Colusa County.
“When President Trump took office, he promised more water for California farms and families. Today, he delivered on that commitment,” said Gallagher. “The state has dragged this project out for decades while Californians have been forced to get by with less. It’s time to get this thing done.”
When completed, Sites Reservoir will allow California to store an additional 1.5 million acre feet of water – enough to meet the needs of 7.5 million people for a year. Building Sites is projected to create roughly 2,000 jobs for North State workers.
Last September, the project hit a roadblock when regulators with the Biden and Newsom administrations refused to issue necessary permits.
In 2016, California voters demanded action to improve our water supply when they passed Proposition 1, which promised an additional $2.7 billion for water storage projects. Nearly a decade later, not a single new dam has been built.
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Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher represents California’s 3rd Assembly District, which includes Butte, Glenn, Sutter, Tehama, Yuba, and parts of Placer counties.