by News Staff | Dec 4, 2014 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Dear Supervisors and Planning Department: As I will not be the Great Basin Air Pollution Control Districtí’s Air Pollution Control Officer on December 30, 2014, the date of the rescheduled hearing on the Eastern Sierra ATV Adventure Trails Project, I am...
by News Staff | Oct 1, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Members of the Great Basin Air Pollution Control District Board were surprised when three Mammoth Community Water District Board members showed up at a recent APCD meeting in Alpine County and said they were holding a special meeting of their own right then and there....
by News Staff | Sep 25, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
With last minute surprises from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the Great Basin Air Pollution Control Board met recently in Mammoth Lakes. The APCD Board had approved a Term Sheet which required crafting of a draft settlement agreement on taking care of...
by News Staff | Mar 30, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Love ’em and Leave ’em by Daniel Pritchett, Bishop Los Angeles’ conquest of Owens Valley was famously compared to rape by Morrow Mayo in 1932. In 2006, LA Water and Power Commissioner Mary Nichols compared the Owens Valley-LA relationship to a...
by News Staff | Oct 21, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Over the years, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s wholesale water diversion from the Owens Valley dried up the Owens Lake and created what has been described as the worst dust pollution of its kind in the western hemisphere. Now, DWP wants no more...
