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Potter Valley Project Dam Relicensing – Second Comment Letter Submitted to FERC Urging Dam Safety Considerations
In early November, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Friends of the River and American Whitewater filed a comment letter with FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) in response to their Scoping Document 2 for the Potter Valley Project. The letter calls for FERC to change its policy of not considering dam safety and infrastructure adequacy in relicensing.…
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Report on Oroville Describes Urgent Dam Safety and Flood Lessons
Much of California’s dam and flood infrastructure is obsolete and falling apart. It needs to be fixed now, says a report entitled “The Oroville Dam Spillway Incident and Lessons from the Feather River Basin.” The authors of report are from CSPA, Friends of the River, South Yuba River Citizens League, and American Whitewater. These organizations…
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CSPA and Coalition Recommend Flows and Habitat for Lower Yuba River
In a hundred-plus page filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on August 25, 2017, CSPA and other members of Foothills Water Network coalition filed recommendations for improving flow and habitat conditions in the lower Yuba River. The filing responds to the “Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis,” a major milestone in the relicensing…
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Oroville Dam Relicensing – Letter to FERC Requests Delay in New License
CSPA has joined a broad-based ad hoc coalition of entities in an August 8, 2017 letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that requests a delay in the issuance of a new hydropower license for the Oroville Facilities Project. The signers of the letter include two elected state officials, two counties, two chambers of…
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Potter Valley Project Dam Relicensing Begins
CSPA, along with several other Conservation Groups[1], submitted extensive comments in early August to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in the just-initiated relicensing of two PG&E dams on the mainstem Eel River. Cape Horn Dam (built 1908) and Scott Dam (1922) are part of PG&E’s Potter Valley Project. The Project’s main feature is the…
