The various and competing interests surrounding the Potter Valley Project have now come together in an agreement that Humboldt County has signed onto. … Approved by Humboldt’s Board of Supervisors at its July 22 meeting, the agreement charts the removal of Scott Dam and Cape Horn Dam, as well as the continuation of water diversion through a new facility built and operated by a new joint powers authority (JPA). PG&E now operates the Potter Valley Project (PVP) but is getting out of it and will submit a decommissioning plan to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by July 29. … The agreement supports a transfer of PG&E’s water rights to the Round Valley Tribe, which will lease the rights to the new JPA. In addition to lease payments, the JPA will make separate payments into an Eel River Restoration Fund.

Other Potter Valley Project news:

• Times-Standard (Eureka, Calif.): Humboldt Supervisors to see full Eel River water diversion agreement
• The Ukiah Daily Journal (Calif.): PG&E hosting virtual Town Hall next month on Potter Valley Project
• Lost Coast Outpost (Eureka, Calif.): Interested in Eel River Dam Removal? Mark your calendars, because PG&E is holding an online town hall meeting next month