Last week, an agreement years in the making was signed by Humble County’s Board of Supervisors and an assortment of involved parties moving the deconstruction of the Potter Valley Project one step closer.  Today I talked with the director of Friends of the Eel River about the history of this project and what this deconstruction means for the future of the Eel River. “So the two dams on the Eel River, Scott Dam and Cape Horn Dam are collectively called the Potter Valley Project and they include a diversion into the Russian River. And the project is licensed, or I should say, was licensed as a hydropower facility under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. That’s FERC, and FERC issues licenses that typically last for 50 years,” said the Director of the Friends of the Eel River Alicia Hamann.