Opinion: Lake Pillsbury, there is no water to waste
Little is said about the role of Lake Pillsbury in our regional water system or the critical water it provides to fill Lake Mendocino. If anything, its importance to understated or not referenced at all in most media articles. Without Lake Pillsbury at the Eel River headwaters to control downstream flows, both the Eel and Russian Rivers and surrounding aquifers will intermittently dry up. … A strong movement is afoot to remove Scott Dam and eliminate Lake Pillsbury…
-Written by Frank Lynch & Carol Cinquini, Directors of the Lake Pillsbury Alliance.