The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District is launching a three-year general investigation study to explore modernizing Coyote Valley Dam now that a key partnership agreement was signed today during an afternoon ceremony at Lake Mendocino.
At a table set up atop the 67-year-old earthen dam, officials from Mendocino County Inland Water and Power Commission and Lytton Rancheria of California, the two non-federal sponsors on the study, and the Corps gathered to sign what is referred to as a feasibility cost sharing agreement. The agreement outlines the roles and responsibilities of both the government and non-federal sponsors in the cost sharing and execution of work.