… Rep. Jared Huffman, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, has opened an investigation into the Trump administration’s role in brokering a potential deal that would send Eel River water to a water district in Southern California, roughly 600 miles away. The controversy centers on the Potter Valley Project, a pair of aging dams on the Eel River that PG&E no longer wants to operate. Under a deal reached in early 2025 and supported by tribal nations, conservation groups and five counties, the Scott and Cape Horn dams were set to be removed, which would have made the Eel the longest free-flowing river in California and reopened hundreds of miles of salmon habitat.

Other dam news:

• Gold Mountain California News Media (Auburn, Calif.): Dam thoughts: A history of Folsom Dam