[pioughd]

"The project would pump 470,000 to 640,000 acre-feet (580,000,000 to 790,000,000 m3) per year of the winter flood flow from the Sacramento River"

Isn't most of the Sacramento River at that point an outflow of Shasta Dam? Lately which we are struggling to fill? The only winter floods its going to be tasting this year are the inflows from tributaries south of Shasta Dam...