Eel River News
Letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy Subcommittee
March 15, 2017 The Honorable Fred Upton Chairman Energy and Commerce Committee U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Bobby Rush Ranking Member Energy and Commerce Committee U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear...
Close to Home: Potter Valley relicensing presents opportunity for more creative thinking
In the Mendocino National Forest, the Potter Valley Project is an audacious example of creative engineering. The project, which is owned by PG&E, stores winter runoff from the upper reaches of the Eel River and diverts the water into the Russian River, where it is...
‘Scouring’ Might Damage Fernbridge, Reports Caltrans
Information from Caltrans: This winter’s powerful and near-constant storms took their toll on roads across our District. As a result, many of our area’s rivers flooded – in one case, the Eel River closed Route 211 at Fernbridge. The high, swiftly-moving floodwaters...
Comments on Draft EIR for Fish Habitat Flows and Water Rights Project
Click here to read our comments on Sonoma County Water Agency's Fish Habitat Flows and Water Rights Project prepared by Shute, Mihaly, & Weinberger LLP. Learn more about the project here. A summary of our comments: I. The EIR fails to adequately describe the...
Worst Salmon Season in Eight Years Projected in California
California fishermen are bracing for the worst salmon season in eight years, one so grim that many will likely sit the season out completely. Years of drought and unfavorably warm ocean conditions that existed when this year’s potential crop of king salmon was young...
Risks Soar, Bills Come Due as 20th-Century Dams Crumble
First part of a series. For nearly 50 years, Oroville Dam has been the linchpin of a sprawling state plumbing system that draws water from wet Northern California to 25 million people and thousands of acres of farmland in the arid south. That changed Feb. 7 when a...
What do Stream Fish do During Flood Flows?
My local stream, Putah Creek, looks like a river these days. Water is pouring down the Glory Hole of Lake Berryessa and rushing in muddy turmoil from the ‘dry’ creeks that are its main tributaries. The creek’s deeply incised and leveed channel is containing the...
Riverbanks Collapse after Oroville Dam Spillway Shut Off
When state water officials scaled back their mass dumping of water from the damaged Oroville Dam this week, they knew the riverbed below would dry up enough to allow the removal of vast piles of debris from the fractured main spillway. But they apparently did not...
President Trump Attacks Clean Water
Today, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers to begin repealing the Clean Water Rule, a landmark measure many years in the making. Likewise, new EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt recently...
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