June 2, 2025 — Residents of Potter Valley are confronting a difficult choice as they consider the future of farming in their home town: water that costs at least $200 acre feet a year or no water at all.

April 21, 2025 — The federal Bureau of Reclamation last week informed the Lake Pillsbury Alliance that it is reviewing funding sources for the Potter Valley Project. The alliance represents stakeholders, including members of the Lake County Board of Supervisors, who have expressed grave concerns about the proposed decommissioning of Scott Dam and the potential draining of Lake Pillsbury.

April 14, 2025 — Farmers in Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma, and Marin Counties have jointly appealed to President Donald Trump for urgent intervention in the planned decommissioning of the Potter Valley Project. Shortly after the appeal was sent, the United States Army Corps of Engineers said it will undertake a study to address increased water storage in the Russian River watershed, according to the Mendocino County Inland Water and Power Commission.

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.

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.

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 5, 2022 — The fate of the Potter Valley Project took a few more turns this week, with a regional coalition declaring it will not file for the license application and PG&E taking steps to operate the project under an annual license until the next development.