by News Staff | May 14, 2019 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy California’s Department of Water Resources came out with its latest prioritization of state groundwater basins and, tentatively, the Owens Valley basin is now low. Over the short life of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Owens Valley has gone...
by News Staff | Jan 4, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Weather
News release SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Thursday, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) conducted the first Phillips Station snow survey of 2019. The manual survey recorded 25.5 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of 9 inches, which is 80 percent of average...
by News Staff | Jan 11, 2017 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy If the residents of West Bishop were hoping for the silver bullet to solve their high water table issues, they were disappointed. On the bright side, the report from the California Department of Water Resources arrived at the theories expressed by Inyo...
by News Staff | Jul 15, 2016 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The California Department of Water Resources rejected a multi-agency request for a basin boundary modification that would separate the Tri-Valley (Hammil, Chalfant and Benton) water basin from the Owens Valley basin. In addition, DWR identified Fish...
by News Staff | Jul 8, 2016 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Press release The County of Inyo, with assistance from the California Department of Water Resources, is taking major steps to address a situation plaguing West Bishop in the form of wildly fluctuating hydrological conditions. Responding to a request from the Inyo...
