That includes a county-led study to review FEMA’s maps for the Russian River Watershed to identify possible modeling errors which could be provided to the federal agency for reconsideration.

This region is unique in that no water comes from the Sierra Nevada snowmelt. The Russian River watershed sits isolated from the rest of the state, and in dry times, like this second year of drought, ...

Russian Riverkeeper, a Healdsburg-based nonprofit organization founded in 1993 to ensure that river water is drinkable, swimmable, fishable and equitably shared, is supportive of the effort to ...

The Sonoma County Water Agency began inflating its rubber dam in the Russian River near Forestville, kicking off a multi-day process critical to providing clean drinking water to more than 600,000 ...

(KRON) — The Sonoma County Water Agency (Sonoma Water) will begin its multi-day installation of its “crucial” rubber dam in Russian River on Monday. Water officials say the dam helps provide ...

The rules, approved by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in December 2021, require property owners with septic systems within 600 feet of the Russian River to to limit the ...

Aug.8LakeMendocinoStorage.pdf Lake Mendocino sustains flow in the upper Russian River and supplies water to about 60,000 people in Mendocino and northern Sonoma counties.