<div><p>After a lengthy and detailed three-year process, including monthly public workshops, the Nevada Irrigation District is moving forward with storage alternatives evaluated in its Plan For Water. It identifies future supply needs for the next 50 years. And it does not include a Centennial Dam that’s been on the back burner for several years. The NID Board of Directors has voted four-to-one to abandon it. Ricki Heck says recent more in-depth studies determined that the one-billion dollar project not only was not cost-effective but the watershed location would be too low…</p><p>Also notably, Heck says NID customers would have had to pay 10 to 20 times of current rates over time. And it would only have benefitted a modest portion of Placer County. The Board’s preferred option is raising Rollins Reservoir. Heck says that would cost less than half of the Centennial pricetag and benefit all customers. But she stressed that current water supplies are good and nothing will need to be done for the time being. The South Yuba River Citizens League was among longtime opponents of Centennial. Executive Director Aaron Zettler-Mann says they support improving existing infrastructure…</p><p>click to listen to Aaron Zettler-Mann</p><p>SYRCL says Centennial would have inundated six miles of the Bear River. That would have completely flooded the Campground, more than 25 homes and 120 parcels. Also, hundreds of cultural and sacred Native American sites, and the Dog Bar Bridge, which is the only crossing of the river between Highways 49 and 174.</p></div>

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NID Board Officially Abandons Centennial Dam

After a lengthy and detailed three-year process, including monthly public workshops, the Nevada Irrigation District is moving forward with storage alternatives evaluated in its Plan For Water. It identifies future supply needs for the next 50 years. And it does not include a Centennial Dam that’s been on the back burner for several years. The NID Board of Directors has voted four-to-one to abandon it. Ricki Heck says recent more in-depth studies determined that the one-billion dollar project not only was not cost-effective but the watershed location would be too low…