Officials sign a feasibility cost sharing agreement for the Coyote Valley Dam General Investigation Study during an April 11, 2025, ceremony at Lake Mendocino. The ceremony took place atop the 67-year-old earth dam that was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1958. Speakers at the afternoon ceremony included Congressman Jared Huffman (left), Janet Pauli, chair of the Mendocino County Inland Water and Power Commission, Andy Mejia, chairperson of the Lytton Rancheria of California, and Lt. Col. Timothy Shebesta, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District.