After a lengthy public comment session that included dozens of speakers both for and against a resolution that many argued would jeopardize years of painstaking progress made toward continuing water diversions from the Eel River into the Russian River following the removal of the Potter Valley Project dams, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors instead voted to consider an alternative resolution proposed by Fifth District Supervisor Ted Williams at its next meeting. … [H]e was concerned about the “unanticipated consequences” of passing the resolution … that asks the Pacific Gas and Electric Company to reconsider its decision to decommission the hydroelectric plant known as the Potter Valley Project.

Other Potter Valley Project news:

• The Mendocino Voice (Calif.): Mendocino County Board of Supervisors advances resolution on Potter Valley Project decommissioning