The San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority has signed a cost share agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation for the B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion Project.
The project will create an additional 130,000 acre-feet of storage space in the San Luis Reservoir.
Driving the news: Funding for the project includes $125 million from the 2021 infrastructure law that was announced earlier in January.
- The project had already received $75 million that was announced last May, $10 million that was announced in 2023 and $25 million announced in 2022.
- The Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act also authorized $60 million for the project, bringing the total to $295 million.
Flashback: The infrastructure law already provided the B.F. Sisk Dam with $100 million for a separate project that will increase the dam crest by 10 feet to improve seismic fortification…