By Deb Murphy Last Thursday’s Technical Group meeting was one of the shortest and least adversarial so far this year as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Inyo County through its Water Department have grappled with Well 385 and the success, or not, of the department’s mitigation efforts at Five Bridges. The […]
By Deb Murphy Last week, we asked a few of the agencies watching record snow fall melt and surge into the Owens Valley when to expect the big run-off—an event they’ve all been preparing for over the last four or five months. Their answer: this week. After near to below normal temps and little rainfall […]
The recent storms did give the Eastern Sierra snowpack a bump, but just a bump. On the Department of Water and Power website, the current precipitation charts show Mammoth Pass water content barely above the driest year on record, which is the snowpack of 1976-77. This year’s snowpack looms way below last year and below […]
In terms of snow and water content, the Eastern Sierra snowpack has started to climb its way above last year’s dismal levels. The peak usually takes place in April, but for right now the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power website snowpack graphs look better. The snow on Mammoth Pass tells the story. Right […]
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