… On Sunday evening, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins published a broadside on social media platform X in which she accused the investor-owned utility of “cutting water flows and pushing to tear down the Scott and Cape Horn Dams which have been lifelines for farmers and over 600,000 residents for more than a century.” … Reached via phone in Washington, D.C., this morning, Rep. Jared Huffman — who, unlike Newsom, was extensively involved in multi-agency negotiations to find a “two-basin solution” that satisfies competing regional interests — said Rollins’s take is misguided.

Other dam and reservoir news:

• MendoFever (Mendocino, Calif.): PG&E lays out plan to pull Potter Valley dams
• The San Diego Union Tribune: Rancho Bernardo council supports raising Lake Hodges water level​
• Red Bluff Daily News (Calif.): Opinion: The sorry tale of languishing projects
• Herald and News (Klamath Falls, Ore.): Klamath River Renewal Corporation points to positive impacts of dam removal