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Welcome to the
Project 2105 Relicensing home page. Project 2105 is a
federally regulated and licensed hydro-electric project located in Northern
California in In October, 2004 PG&E’s FERC license for Project 2015 expired and since then PG&E has actively worked to obtain a new license. Because the project significantly impacts Plumas County residents and visitors, local residents and property owners formed the 2105 Working Group (previously called the 2105 Committee) to actively work to ensure that the new FERC license contains provisions that recognize the importance of the project, and in particular the lake, to Plumas County.
The 2105 Working Group has developed goals that if incorporated in the new FERC license will:
Beginning in 2002, the 2105 Working Group worked closely with the
2105
Licensing Group, a group of interested parties that worked
collaboratively to reach a settlement in March 2004.
The Settlement Agreement, which incorporate the goals described
above, was executed by the
Parties in April 2004, except for the California State Water
Resources Control Board (SWRCB), and 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 SWRCB’s concern of water temperatures in the lower reaches of the North Fork Feather River (NFFR).
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 length of 52 miles. |
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