November 18, 2024 — More than a hundred Potter Valley residents gathered in the school gym on Friday to review the results of the Potter Valley Water Reliability Study, conducted by Jacobs Engineering, and to weigh their options as the decommissioning of the Potter Valley Project moves forward.

October 21, 2024 — Congressman Jared Huffman address facts and fallacies around the Two-Basin Solution — a response to the removal of the Scott Dam and the Cape Horn Dam that addresses both Humboldt County's desire for a free-flowing Eel River and Mendocino County's dependence on continued diversion.

November 20, 2023 — PG&E released an initial plan to surrender the Potter Valley Project on Friday morning.

August 16, 2023 — A group of regional interests has submitted a proposal to PG&E, in hopes of continuing the diversion of Eel River water into the Russian River, after the Potter Valley Project is decommissioned. Other stakeholders are not amused by being left out.

July 18, 2023 — PG&E has submitted a request for a 5cfs flow in the East Fork of the Russian River. The company also wants to transfer the licenses of its non nuclear generating assets to a subsidiary.

December 29, 2022 — The license for the Potter Valley Project is undergoing a variety of considerations. As PG&E prepares its plan for decommissioning the inter-basin hydropower project that diverts water from the Eel River into the Russian River, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, announced that it is considering reopening the license.

July 29, 2022 — This week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved PG&E's request to reduce flows into the East Branch of the Russian River to 5 cfs from 75 cfs.

July 13, 2022 — PG&E expects to have a detailed license surrender and decommissioning plan in two and a half years. The utility argues that the National Marine Fisheries Service does not have sufficient evidence to demand amendments to the license to update 20-year-old Biological Opinion.

April 19, 2022 — The license for the Potter Valley Project expired on Thursday, April 14. By Friday, a coalition of environmentalists and fishermen had filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue PG&E, the project owner, under the Endangered Species Act.

February 16, 2022 — Experts on the Potter Valley Project gave Farm Bureau committee members an update Tuesday night, providing details about flows, preparations for a ballot measure to levy a special tax, and the as-yet scarce information that’s available about what’s next.