PG&E recently submitted a Surrender Application and Decommissioning Plan for the defunct hydropower project to the Federal ...

A historic water-sharing agreement advanced last week commits Eel and Russian river stakeholders to a two-basin solution.

The early months of 2025 marked a milestone for stakeholders along the Eel River and Russian River watershed. PG&E announced that it has readied a final version of the company’s surrender ...

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.

It now has curtailed rights for 671 users, about two thirds of them in the upper river watershed upstream of Healdsburg and Dry Creek, where releases from Lake Sonoma supplement river flows.

In August 2021, the 861 water rights holders in the Upper Russian River watershed and 222 rights holders in the Lower Russian River were required to stop pumping water.

Russian River water restrictions add to region’s woes as drought rages on by: Bay City News Posted: Sep 16, 2022 / 04:18 PM PDT Updated: Sep 16, 2022 / 04:18 PM PDT ...

The Russian River flows just south of the Geyserville bridge at Highway 128 in an ever growing dry riverbed, the state water board is scheduled to vote on revised framework for curtailments on ...

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.

By Bay City News • Published April 4, 2022 • Updated on April 4, 2022 at 12:06 pm ...