Russian River Weekly Update 5/27/25
Fallow vineyard in the Hopland area, April 2025, by E Salomone
Reservoir Storage & Operations:
Water supply information provided by Sonoma Water (find more water storage info here).
PG&E and PVP
- RRFC's website page on the PG&E Draft Surrender Application & Decommissioning Plan for PVP. (including public comments submitted.)
- PG&E Submits License Amendment
- PG&E Submits 2025 temporary license flow amendment (flow variance.)
- RRFC's website page on the Partnership.
California Natural Resources Agency to Host Virtual Discussion Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
As we close out our celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, join the leaders who are driving change across California’s conservation and sustainability landscape.
We'll explore how careers in nature and conservation offer meaningful connection—to land, to culture, and to community. Hear from AAPI professionals whose work in environmental stewardship, climate action, and sustainability is grounded in joy and purpose.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 28, 2025, from noon - 1 p.m.
HOW: Register in advance here.
WHO:
- Wade Crowfoot, Secretary, California Natural Resources Agency
- Dr. Robyn Rodriguez, Professor Emeritus of Asian American Studies, University of California at Davis
- Dr. Rod Fujita, Senior Scientist and Director of Ocean Innovations, Environmental Defense Fund
- Harriet Lai Ross, Director of Regulatory Affairs, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
- Rhody Soria, District Director at Inland Empire, California Conservation Corps
- Stephanie Shimazu, General Counsel, California Natural Resources Agency
In the press:
- PPIC: To Save Native Species, the State Must Take Some Risk 5/19/25
- Cal Trout: The Pikeminnow Problem
- Roll Call: Red states win, blue states lose in Army Corps spending plan 5/19/25
- Lost Coast Outpost: New Study Shows Coho-Killing Toxin Pools in Humboldt County Parking Lots Before Draining Into the Bay 5/21/25
- USGS (via Maven's): Landsat at work: Conserving water and growing high quality grapes 5/22/25
- Humboldt Waterkeeper and the California Coastkeepers Alliance PRESS RELEASE: Stormwater sampling effort in Eureka reveals high concentrations of salmon-killing toxins are being flushed directly from “big box” store parking lots into local waterways 5/22/25
- Sustainable Conservation REPORT SUMMARY: Cover Crops in the SGMA Era: Guidance for GSAs and growers 5/22/25
- UC Berkley: This university alliance is training students to strengthen tribal food, energy and water systems 5/22/25
- Press Democrat: Windsor delays vote again on 17% combined hike for water, wastewater rates 5/22/25