by News Staff | Jan 25, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Tuesday’s meeting of the Inyo County/Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Technical Group started with grim news on the snow pack—34-percent of normal—and ended with a continued stand-off on the Well 385 pump test. Here are the highlights: Aqueduct...
by News Staff | May 13, 2016 | Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Thursday’s Standing Committee meeting was a riveting tennis match of semantics and legalese. In the end the committee couldn’t agree on a framework for or anything related to reasonable reductions to agriculture which means the status quo is maintained...
by News Staff | Jul 25, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
With positive staff recommendations and no one in opposition, the Great Basin Unified Air Quality Control District hearing board granted the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power a variance to initiate a late ramp-up of shallow flooding on 14.79 square miles of...
by News Staff | Jun 6, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Valley agriculture got its second reprieve Thursday. Irrigation water will continue to flow through July when the Los Angeles/Inyo County Standing Committee will reconvene, July 24, to evaluate how much more water can be allocated to farmers and ranchers. The next...
by News Staff | May 11, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Numbers and locations have been thrown out since Monday’s Tech Group meeting, but the final decision on how to provide adequate irrigation for Owens Valley agriculture was postponed at Thursday’s Standing Committee meeting. Farmers and ranchers will have to wait until...
