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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Since its completion successful 1954 Pine Flat Dam has stood 430 feet tall, and present the Army Corps of Engineers is weighing if the dam should beryllium raised.
President Biden signed a caller instrumentality past week fast-tracking the survey that has been slowed down by years of reddish tape. The survey volition measure a program to rise Pine Flat Dam by 12 feet adding 124,000 acre-feet to Pine Flat Lake's 1 cardinal acre-foot h2o capacity.
“That would let america to prevention that h2o erstwhile we tin usage it to amended our h2o proviso to amended groundwater recharge the request for h2o for our communities,” said Valley Congressmen Jim Costa.
The survey is expected to instrumentality a mates of years but it is assured the request is determination - particularly aft back-to-back bedewed winters which forced the Corp of Engineers to merchandise h2o from vale reservoirs astatine historical levels.
“Taking vantage of erstwhile we person supra mean rainfall to make that h2o reliability implicit the agelong term,” Costa said.
Once the survey is done determination is nary telling however agelong operation could instrumentality if approved. Costa says that successful his clip successful office, helium has seen akin projects instrumentality up to 10 years, meantime stadiums successful the authorities with akin terms tags person been built successful fractional that time.
“The information that the substance is sometimes we get our priorities retired of whack I think” Costa said.
