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font-size: 36px; line-height: 38px; font-family: Unify Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial Nova, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">'Lame duck:' Groups bash Trump Administration report on raising the height of Shasta Dam</h1><div class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_by" style="margin: 12px 6px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://www.redding.com/staff/4406815002/damon-arthur/" class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_by_a ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_by_a__fi" style="margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Unify Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial Nova, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Damon Arthur</a><div class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_pb" style="display: inline; margin: 1px 0px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif;">Redding Record Searchlight</div></div><div class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ss" data-g-r="base_sc" data-ss-u="https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/11/25/groups-bash-trump-administration-report-raising-height-shasta-dam/6423177002/" data-ss-t="'Lame duck:' Groups bash Trump Administration report on raising the height of Shasta Dam" data-ss-d="The Trump Administration approved an environmental impact statement on raising the height of Shasta Dam."><a class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ss_a" href="https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?display=popup&app_id=1482402445109843&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redding.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2F2020%2F11%2F25%2Fgroups-bash-trump-administration-report-raising-height-shasta-dam%2F6423177002%2F" data-g-r="base_si" data-ss-a="f" data-t-l="${tc}|navbar-share-top|facebook" style="width: 1em; 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color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 660px;"><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">While Republican members of Congress praised the most recent step toward approving raising the height of Shasta Dam, fishing and environmental groups criticized it as the illegal actions of a "lame duck federal agency."</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The Trump Administration last week issued its final supplemental environmental impact statement on the proposal to raise the height of the dam 18½ feet.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">A press release about the action included praise from several GOP members of Congress, including representatives from the San Joaquin Valley.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">“Raising Shasta Dam is critical to helping improve drought resiliency in the State of California, as it will provide more water for people, fish, and the environment,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, in the news release.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale, and two other House Republicans also praised the action.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Federal officials have studied the height of raising Shasta Dam since the 1980s. An 18½ foot taller dam would increase storage capacity in Lake Shasta by about 14% and provide more water for agriculture, communities and the environment, federal officials said.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">However, conservation and fishing groups have opposed the project for many years. </p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">“The dam-raising approval is so patently illegal and violates so many state and federal environmental laws that we hope the new administration will quickly scuttle the Shasta project," said Jeff Miller, a conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity.</p><img class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_em_img_i" data-g-r="lazy" alt="Federal officials want to raise the height of Shasta Dam to store more water in Lake Shasta." src="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/10/23/PRRS/c3f7e671-89cc-4699-abf5-d38b9254fad8-shasta_dam2.JPG?width=660&height=439&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" style="width: 100%; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 660px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The Trump Administration said raising the dam would benefit endangered winter-run chinook salmon that spawn in the Sacramento River in the Redding area. To successfully rear their young, the salmon need cold water in the river that comes from the lower depths of Lake Shasta.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Raising the height of the dam would provide a larger pool of cold water for salmon spawning, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">But John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association, said raising the height of the dam would actually be bad for salmon.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The salmon also occasionally need large amounts of water sent down the Sacramento River from the dam, but if the dam is raised, there would be fewer high water releases from the dam, he said.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">"Raising Shasta Dam might sound like a good idea to some who don't understand that the dam has already choked much of the life out of the Sacramento River, including salmon," McManus said.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">"Raising the dam would stop the highly beneficial periodic flushing and revitalizing the river gets from flood control releases," he said.</p><div class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_em_vp_w" data-g-r="vp_tp" data-c-vt="teal" data-t-pl="teal-storyinline" style="position: relative; 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color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The McCloud River is protected under state law, which says neither the state nor any other local agency can participate in water projects that would affect the free-flowing nature of the river, Buse said.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Raising the height of the dam would cause the lake level to rise and, when full, inundate about 3,500-feet of the river, according to the environmental report.</p><div class="ydpb56adc6fcontainer" style="border-color: rgb(22, 101, 207); 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color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The California Attorney General's Office and several nonprofit groups last year successfully sued the Westlands Water District of Fresno when it tried to become a local partner and began studying the environmental effects of raising the dam</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The suit against the district was filed in Shasta County Superior Court. A judge ruled Westlands would be violating state law by participating in the project.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Despite the environmental report's approval, the McCloud River and local funding remain stumbling blocks to eventually raising the height of the dam, Buse said.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">“They have no way of addressing that," Buse said. "They can’t just sort of gloss over that in approving this environmental impact statement. There’s just no way around that problem.” </p><img class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_em_img_i" data-g-r="lazy" alt="More than 200 people attended a meeting Wednesday in Redding to take comment for an environmental analysis of the effects of raising the height of Shasta Dam." src="https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/12/13/PRRS/451f9d1a-b137-458a-a683-02e12f3f7834-dam_raise_3.JPG?width=660&height=495&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp" style="width: 100%; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 660px;" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The Trump Administration's current effort to push through a dam raise is the third in the past five years.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The Bureau of Reclamation approved an environmental report and feasibility study in 2015. The agency did not go forward with the project because it lacked a local partner to pay for half the project.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">And when Westlands stepped up and began work on the project three years later, it was shut down by a lawsuit and court decision.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Despite concerns raised by conservation and fishing groups over the current push to raise the dam, U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, a Republican who represents a district south and east of Sacramento, said approving the report was an important step for a much-needed project.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Raising the height of the dam would increase needed water storage in the state, he said.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">“After decades of bureaucratic dithering and obstruction, the Shasta Dam raise is finally within sight of actual construction—an important step toward restoring water abundance to our communities,” McClintock said in the administration's press release.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">But the salmon association's McManus said since Trump lost the election the project isn't likely to go forward.</p><p class="ydpb56adc6fgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">"This announcement looks like an example of a lame duck federal agency and its few congressional backers wasting everyone's time. The dam won't be raised," he said. <br></p></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>