Remembering Paul Dolan
Paul Dolan: Industry Pioneer, Mentor, and Family Focused Photo courtesy of the Dolan family. Everyone at Russian Riverkeeper sends our deepest condolences to the family of Paul Dolan who passed on July 26th. Paul made a tremendous and positive impact on our [...]
Taking Action Against Unregulated Ground Water Pumping
Join us in ensuring our public trust resources are protected from unrestricted groundwater pumping! Russian Riverkeeper is continuing hard to push to get key requirements incorporated into the Sonoma County Well Ordinance Amendment that will help ensure the short and long-term protection of our [...]
Post Flood Support
The welcome rains in January came with a deluge of trash swept into the river by the forces of nature. Although not as bad as 2019, Clean Team assessments have found an abundance of new trash from urban area storm drains, camps, farms, and [...]
How to Conserve Your Water All Year Round
Here are just some of the good reasons to stick with our conservation habit: Let’s keep water where it is, as much as possible. The more water we use, the more water has to be released from reservoirs or drawn up from groundwater wells. [...]
2022 Look Back!
2022 Lookback
Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite
This past October we sent our amazing staff Attorney, Jaime Neary, to the 31st annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite put on by the California Lawyers Association. Four days of learning from some of our State’s best environmental legal minds and the opportunity to [...]
Clean Water Act 50: PFAS Results
In our June newsletter, we discussed water quality testing our staff participated in through Waterkeeper Alliance to learn whether we had PFAS compounds present in our watershed. Our results returned! We have detected some PFAS compounds in wastewater discharge to the river. Fortunately, concentrations [...]
Seasonal Changes Impacts On Our River!
Autumn is Among Us! With the days getting shorter and temperatures getting colder, we begin to see seasonal changes on the Russian River. As the leaves begin to fall and plants enter their dormancy, we hope for water to replenish our river and the [...]
Mes de la Herencia Hispana, el Nuevo Cuadro de Mando Latino y Reuniones Locales
¡El mes pasado del 15 de septiembre al 15 de octubre fue el Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana! California y el condado de Sonoma tienen una historia profunda de contribuciones de los hispanoamericanos a la cultura y los logros que dan forma a [...]