A large crowd of concerned community members attend the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors meeting in Ukiah, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025 to discuss the decommissioning of the Potter Valley Project. (Sydney Fishman/Bay City News)

MENDOCINO CO., 10/22/25 – The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday discussed dueling resolutions on PG&E’s position in the decommissioning of the Potter Valley Project’s dams. 

For more than 100 years, the Potter Valley Project has diverted water from the Eel River to the Russian River Watershed through two dams — the Scott Dam at Lake Pillsbury and Cape Horn Dam at Lake Van Arsdale — that have supplied water to communities throughout Mendocino and Sonoma counties. 

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Sydney Fishman is a UC Berkeley California Local News Fellow and lives full time in Ukiah. Reach her at sydney@mendovoice.com or through her Signal username @sydannfish.67.