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It is unfortunate that a well-qualified knowledgeable candidate with an exceptional resume that includes being an administrator for an environmental defense organization does not have a chance of working for the LADWP. DWP is actually looking for a candidate who will support the operational policy of LADWP vs what’s beneficial, equitable and sustainable for the environment.
Makes sense to me. if you owned a company, would you hire someone that would work with you or someone that would work against you?
BobK , A favorite bumper sticker, “I can’t be overdrawn, I still have checks” speaks to sustainability in finances and to the issues of the lack of sustainable management/operations of the LADWP in the Eastern Sierra. An example:
dewater the LORP and Owens Lake and then 50,000 plus acre feet annually (50,000 AF @ $700.00 an acre foot replacement water from the MWD is $35,000,000 minimum forever) for dust mitigation is not a sustainable operation. Another example: Waters from the Mono Basin is limited this year to 4,000 AF. If an additional 6 inches of elevation had been allowed to flow into Mono Lake then DWP would have gotten 14,000AF from the Basin. That 10,000 AF will benefit the Lake this year as intended but DWP rate payers are on the hook for $7 million bucks for MWD provided replacement water . I want to hire managers who both save money and the environment. we could easily as not have a 4th year of drought . Multiple year droughts yield less and less natural flow runoff from the Sierra. This third year of the drought, Sabrina and South Lake reservoirs will not have much water from the limited 46% of mean average snowpack and even less of the natural flow from previous years that contributes to the lake levels. Managers in the DWP nor anyone else can make it snow or rain. All they can do is manage their operation. They should be well aware of the challenges by now. and their business model these days needs to consider some sustainable upgrades.
Correction: If an additional 6 inches of elevation had been allowed to flow into Mono Lake up to April 1, DWP would have gotten 16,000 AF from the Basin. This year they will only be allowed 4,500AF. That 11,500 AF will benefit the Lake this year as intended but DWP rate payers are on the hook for $8.05 million bucks for MWD provided replacement water
Then LADWP get’s the Inyo/Mono citizens on board with their quagga mussel efforts by saying they compete for food with trout. When in fact when I go trout fishing I want the trout hungry so they bite my bait. Their claim might have some merit in sustainable fisheries but most of the trout in the Eastern Sierra are stocked to be caught.
The title to this job is obviously wrong. Please correct the article:
LADWP Accepting Applications for Environmental Terrorist.
Inyo Citizen
Actually,IMO,the LADWP is far from environmental terrorists.
The biggest terrorists to the environment,BY FAR,are people,their attempted money making ventures,that include building and expanding onto the land, a big population ,and destroying Wildlife habitat and Wilderness areas that come along with growth to an area .
Keep in mind,if it weren’t for LADWP and the land-grab they did 100+ years ago,we’d all be living a big-city over-populated life here in the Owens Valley,and Mono County would probably be a crowded suburb like San Fernando is to L.A. now.
DD, For certain you have enumerated some additional threats to the environment in the Eastern Sierra, but the elephant in the room remains the LADWP. Historically through present times, the population of the Owens Valley, most notably the Native Americans would have that opinion of LADWP. What do you call the tactics employed by the City of Los Angeles to disrupt their lives back then and even today? LADWP has never practiced sustainability of the Valley on any level, let alone environmental. They have hands on throats in every aspect of everyday life, from limiting the free flow of waters, economic development and even access. Try going fishing at Haiwee. Try excusing more than 3 dozen domestic wells going dry without compensation to the residents in 2013-14 in Barlow due to their mismanagement of pumping and surface flow. Try excusing their lock on the water rights under the Bishop and Lone Pine Tribal lands . Try excusing the dewatering of the LORP and Owens Lake, over drafting aquifers that are still in the column of mitigation projects not recovered since 1991. Sounds like this job title might be someone in the DWP CEQA office . They are their own Agency for their own projects. They make their own determinations on Categorical Exemptions , Negative Impact Reports and of course full EIR’s. It has taken litigation in so many instances to have them comply with anything that is of environmental concern. Yep, The LADWP are worse than anyone, that you should know and remember. They are a historic and remain an established institution of exploitation in the Eastern Sierra. They don’t get a pass on that title for the open spaces that they exploit. They don’t get a pass for limiting surface flow in Long Valley or the Mono Lake levels or their pumping plan in this third year of drought where the Valley water tables will deplete. The PR distortion of this job title is par for the course for the LADWP. It won’t merit litigation itself, but expect down the road that there will be LADWP decisions that will be contested and again LADWP will be forced comply with more acceptable environmental management and operations.
Nah – the urban wimps would run back to L.A. after one round through the seasons – spending most of the year whining about the dearth of shopping malls, nail salons, indoor gyms and mega scale “entertainment”.
mono resident
Can you imagine all the L.A. and SoCal crime right here in the Inyo and Mono Counties ?
Maybe a few weekly HWY 395 “street take-overs ”
“Smash-and-grab” robberies at our local stores,
Going outside to start your vehicle in the morning,hearing a loud rumbling and realizing your catalitic converter was stolen overnight.
Lights and sirens….and overhead CHP helicopters with spot-lights on a daily and nightly basis.
Daily traffic jams (not just the three-day week-ends ) on the highway and streets to fight through and deal with..
Going fishing in the lake,getting a big bite,reeling it in,only to find out you “caught” a heavy blue tarp with a chain and duct-tape wrapped around it…
THANK YOU LADWP for buying up the land when you did….IMO…