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Welcome to the Project 2105 Committee home
page. The Committee is
comprised of a small group of residents in the Lake Almanor area who are
actively working to ensure that the new
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) license for Pacific Gas and Electric Company's (PG&E) 2105 hydro
electric project contains provisions that recognizes the importance of
the project, and in particular the lake, to the Lake Almanor area.
Project
2105 is owned and operated by PG&E and regulated by the FERC
through a 50 year license that will expire on October 31, 2004. FERC is
expected to issue a new 30 to 40 year license to PG&E within the next
few years. The Committee has developed goals
that if incorporated in the new FERC license will:
ensure a reasonable summer time water level
for Lake Almanor
require monitoring of the lake to maintain water quality
provide increased public access to the lake
require PG&E to invest in recreation facilities, some of which will be
constructed prior to the issuance of the new FERC license
mitigate the ongoing erosion of the Lake Almanor shoreline
provide for a safety policy for those who use the lake for recreation
The
Project 2105 Committee is actively participating in the 2105 Licensing
Group, a group of interested parties working collaboratively to reach
agreement on outstanding licensing issues. The final settlement agreement was reached in March 2004 and
was executed by the Parties
in April 2004. The final settlement agreement is expected to provide the basis of
license articles that FERC will include in the new Project 2105 FERC
license.
With the
settlement agreement completed, several issues remain unresolved
including the term of the license (30, 40, or 50 years), whether
PG&E has the right to erode the shoreline of Lake Almanor, and the
release of cold
water from Lake Almanor to enhance the fisheries in the Feather
River downstream of the lake.
Project 2105 includes Lake
Almanor, Butt
Valley Reservoir, and Butt
Valley, Caribou 1&2,
Belden, and Oak
Flat powerhouses.
The center piece of the project is Lake Almanor which is located about
30 miles south of
Mt. Lassen, the southern-most volcano in the Cascade Range. At
a full reservoir elevation of 4494 feet, Lake Almanor contains over 1 million
acre-feet of water storage with a shore line of 52 miles
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