After nearly a decade of planning and negotiations, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors today unanimously approved a water diversion agreement that will support PG&E’s plan to decommission the aging Potter Valley Project and demolish its two dams — Scott Dam and Cape Horn Dam — on the upper stretches of the Eel River. The historic agreement marks a major turning point in a years-long effort by federal, state, tribal and local agencies to craft a “two-basin solution” that meets the needs of communities in both the Eel and Russian River basins, which have long been at odds over ownership and control of water diverted from the Eel River. 

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