The South Yuba River Citizens League is ramping up a public comment campaign regarding what they call serious concerns over proposed dams on Fish Creek near the Little Town of Washington. Executive Director Aaron Zettler-Mann says a Berkely-based company called RamaFlux Sierra, which was just formed this spring, has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory. He says the creek flows for just a-mile-and-a-half before meeting the South Yuba River, which also has a 39-mile Wild and Scenic designation. And it has a flood flow of less than 100 cubic feet per-second for what would be a 750-megawatt pumped storage power plant…

Zetller-Mann says the company is planning two years of feasibility studies, which he describes as a lot of crucial information in a short period of time. And he says the application identifies several fundamental unanswered questions about the project’s design and water supply. That includes how large the reservoirs would be or how tall the dams would be. But SYRCL estimates that running the system with that kind of power output would require moving roughly six-thousand cubic feet of water per second through the turbines. Zettler-Mann says residents can find application details and how to comment on SYRCL’s website. The FERC deadline for comments is November 30^th…