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Safely provide reliable, cost-based hydropower and transmission to our customers and the communities we serve.​

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Members of the Western Area Power Administration take a group photo at a construction site in northern California.

WAPA’s Northern California construction project ‘a fairy tail’

July 25, 2024   /   2024, Closed Circuit, News Features   /   Tags: Construction/Infrastructure

With construction underway on WAPA’s soon-to-be-established Beale Substation, Sierra Nevada is paying particular attention to California’s native vernal pool fairy shrimp.

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