HELP SAVE THE MOKELUMNE RIVER AND LOWER BEAR FROM PRIVATE ENERGY DEVELOPERS NOW!

We need you to join our campaign to stop the proposed Mokelumne Pumped Storage project! It would would drain and refill 3000 acre feet of water stored in Lower Bear River Reservoir daily, causing shorelines to advance and retreat by more than 70 feet laterally in some areas, making shoreline picnics and mooring boats hazardous.

The construction of the project would close access to Bear River reservoir’s south shore campgrounds, boat ramps and beaches for up to four years. It would interrupt access Mokelumne River campgrounds, Mokelumne Wilderness, and rafting, swimming and fishing the Wild and Scenic Mokelumne River. Rebuilding roads, bridges and powerlines along Salt Springs Road will disturb the habitat of wildlife including our endangered Foothill Yellow Legged Frog.

The construction would disturb this scenic area with constant blasting, drilling, excavating tunnel muck and hauling to surface storage areas causing noise, air pollution, dust and disturbance of wildlife and human enjoyment of this treasured area for years to come.

The proposed Pumped Storage project has submitted its Updated Study Report and Final License Application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

We at Conservancy need our members to get engaged in our Save the Moke campaign by:

• Getting informed about the proposed project and its impact here at foothillconservancy.org/gg
• Write letters to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and U S Forest Service expressing your concerns about the project.
• Contact local officials in Amador and Calaveras Counties that will be affected by the project. That includes City and County elected officials as well as the Water Agencies that rely on the Moke for our water supplies.
• Join the Foothill Conservancy and encouraging others to do so.
• Contact craig@foothillconservancy.org to be added to the Mokelumne Pumped Storage Project contact list. Please feel free to let us know your main concerns.
• We especially invite you to join if you are directly affected by the pump storage project, if you live, stay, camp, fish or otherwise use Lower Bear, Salt Springs or the area surrounding them.
• Spreading word online in your social media. The Conservancy is at facebook.com/foothillconservancy
• You can also submit comments directly to FERC as an individual at ferconline.ferc.gov/QuickComment.aspxdisturb
• You can see the Conservancy’s own comments in the section below.