PG&E recently tendered its License Surrender Application and Decommissioning Plan for the Potter Valley Project to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This plan details when and how PG&E plans to tear down its two dams on the Eel River. And since an...
Scott Dam (left) and Cape Horn Dam (right) are the two dams that comprise the Potter Valley Project. PG&E’s July 2025 filing to the official Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) docket is an important milestone on the way to removing the Eel River dams. The...
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...
Sacramento pikeminnow, invasive on the Eel River, prey upon juvenile salmonids. Photo via CalTrout. Debbie-Anne Reese, Acting Secretary Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First Street, NE Washington, D.C. 20426 Re: Urgent Request for Approval of PG&E’s...
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...
