On July 25, PG&E submitted its formal plan to federal regulators to tear down the two-dam system that has rerouted Eel River water into the Russian River for over a century.

That includes a county-led study to review FEMA’s maps for the Russian River Watershed to identify possible modeling errors which could be provided to the federal agency for reconsideration.

NERF, the proposed replacement, would divert water only during high winter and early spring flows, a major shift from the summer diversions that Russian River communities have long relied on. Eel ...

This region is unique in that no water comes from the Sierra Nevada snowmelt. The Russian River watershed sits isolated from the rest of the state, and in dry times, like this second year of drought, ...

Russian Riverkeeper, a Healdsburg-based nonprofit organization founded in 1993 to ensure that river water is drinkable, swimmable, fishable and equitably shared, is supportive of the effort to ...

Depending on river flow conditions, the dam can take four to 14 days to fully inflate, officials said. Once inflated, the rubber dam forms a pool from which Sonoma Water draws water into four ...

The Russian River watershed was once a stronghold for Central California’s coho salmon population, but Obedzinski says things like extreme habitat loss and drought years have led to the downturn.

(BCN) — The Sonoma County Water Agency will begin deflating the rubber dam on the Russian River near Forestville on Monday in anticipation of elevated water levels. The National Weather Service ...