Eel River dam removal is just around the corner. On Friday, July 25th PG&E published their final License Surrender Application and Decommissioning Plan (LSA), bringing the Eel River one step closer to becoming California’s longest free-flowing river. The Potter...
The Eel River dams will never produce hydropower again. The unreliable water supply they allow to the Russian River will fail as geology and physics proceed. Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E) Potter Valley Project has failed, forever, at the primary purpose for...
Turning a blind eye to serious safety and reliability concerns, as well as questioning a private company’s business decision, the Farm Bureaus of Marin, Sonoma, Lake, and Mendocino Counties have asked the Trump administration to halt or delay the removal of Scott and...
The recent commenting period on PG&E’s draft license surrender application is the latest step in the long process of evaluating the best options for decommissioning the Potter Valley Project. For over a century now, the Potter Valley Project has contributed...
The preliminary design for the New Eel-Russian Diversion Facility, or NERF, located at what is currently Cape Horn Dam. Diagram via PG&E. Just a week after PG&E published their final draft license surrender plan, another significant development was made...
This week on the EcoNews Report our host Alicia Hamann from Friends of the Eel River talks about the flurry of recent developments on Eel River dam removal. On January 31 PG&E released their final draft license surrender application, a document that outlines some...
