by News Staff | Feb 11, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
While the Department of Water and Power and Air Pollution Control District reached settlement on seven legal issues, local citizens prepared to rally against dust mitigation work on the Owens Dry Lake to save what they say are thousands of Indian tribal artifacts at...
by News Staff | Feb 10, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
In a list of some 55 mitigation projects the Department of Water and Power was required to complete in a signed agreement more than 20 years ago, nearly half are undone or have problems. Earlier we ran through missing mitigation in the Laws and Bishop areas. We now...
by News Staff | Feb 9, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
To cover Department of Water and Power and Inyo County meetings is painful. LA takes on the role of Colonial overlord and Inyo usually asks for crumbs in one way or another. This time, at the Inyo-LA Standing Committee meeting on Friday in Independence, Inyo officials...
by News Staff | Feb 6, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Seventeen years after Inyo County and the Department of Water and Power signed the Long Term Water Agreement, DWP has not completed many mitigation projects listed in a 1991 Environmental Impact Report and designed to make up for widespread damage done by groundwater...
by News Staff | Feb 5, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
25 years ago, the Department of Water and Power agreed on an Enhancement/ Mitigation project in southern Inyo that ultimately led to adding 30 acre feet of water for a high school farm project. Today, the Van Norman Enhancement/ Mitigation project and the high school...
