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Page 2 of 7 Get Coupons Enter search phrase Green $6 million Truckee River restoration extends 10 miles Sunday, August 18, 2013 Water flows down the Truckee River near Squaw Valley, Calif., Friday, Jan. 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) (AP Photo) Tags: reno, lake tahoe, I-80, construction, green Comment Now Email Print Report a typo RENO, Nev. -- The Nature Conservancy and NV Energy are leading the latest major push to return a stretch of the lower Truckee River to a more natural state as it flows east out of Reno and Sparks toward Pyramid Lake. The utility provided a conservation easement to help restore the latest stretch of river expected to cost about $6 million. Mickey Hazelwood, the conservancy's Truckee River project manager, tells the Reno Gazette-Journal it extends all the way to the Tracy power plant east of Sparks along Interstate 80. When it's completed, it will mark mile No. 10 of the overall project. Related Content link: 'Like' ABC7 News on Facebook link: LINK: Follow @abc7newsbayarea on Twitter Among other things, bulldozers will begin to cut a series of meandering bends along the river like used to exist naturally before the channel was straightened decades ago. (Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) Get more Green» Tags: reno, lake tahoe, I-80, construction, green Comment Now Email Print Report a typo

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