The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA (https://mendovoice.com/tag/eel-river/)
PG&E’s draft decommissioning plan in November will include removal of all dams and river features unless an entity steps forward with a proposal to take over facilities.
Although rainfall was only 70% of normal, conditions were dramatically better for fish than in WY 2021, when most Tenmile Creek reaches and tributaries went completely dry
“I hope that we can get our water back — and get our culture back”: habitat loss, water quality reduction, and threatened communities along the 196-mile Northern California river.
Plus what Scott Dam’s open spillway gates mean for water supply: “We really can’t afford to miss another wet winter.”
PG&E has not yet decided whether to remove dams in decommissioning the Potter Valley Project, though one biologist said, “taking the dam out is by far the single biggest thing we could do to help fisheries on the Eel.”
