Federal agriculture and interior officials convened a meeting Monday at the White House with PG&E and a Southern California water district over the future of the Eel River — and the tribe with senior water rights on that river was not in the room. The Round Valley Indian Tribes said Wednesday that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins had called the meeting, which also included Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and representatives of the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District. The subject was the Potter Valley Project, a hydroelectric complex on the Eel River. … Round Valley has spent years at the negotiating table with Russian River water users working out what the parties call the Two-Basin Solution — a plan to allow salmon recovery on the Eel while keeping water flowing to communities that had come to rely on diversions from the north.

Other Potter Valley Project news:

• The Ukiah Daily Journal (Calif.): PG&E meets with federal officials regarding Potter Valley Project
• Lake County Record-Bee (Lakeport, Calif.): D.C. plan to save Scott Dam but fate remains uncertain