by News Staff | Jul 9, 2018 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy The 500 cubic feet per second flows scheduled for the Owens River Gorge in late June have been postponed until later this month. But the impact of flows 10-times greater than what has been released hasn’t been postponed. What about the fish and their...
by News Staff | Jul 9, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Friends of the Inyo is the latest entity to come out in support of ranchers with grazing leases in Long Valley, leases receiving a fraction of previous irrigation water allocations this year and possibly no water following an environmental analysis by...
by News Staff | Jun 21, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Inyo County news release The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will be performing emergency repair work on the Control Gorge Power Plant beginning June 26th, with a projected completion date of September 5th. Water being released from the Crowley Reservoir...
by News Staff | Jun 21, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Just before Inyo’s Board of Supervisors approved the settlement agreement with Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over wells and mitigation in the Five Bridges area, Supervisor Matt Kingsley admitted there were “subtleties in this agreement.” That...
by News Staff | Jun 18, 2018 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Letter submitted by: Daniel Pritchett Bishop Mike Prather’s June 11, 2018, letter to Sierra Wave regarding DWP’s latest outrage invites comment. Here are two. Mike Prather posed the question, “Why would Los Angeles do this?” i.e. dry up 6000 irrigated acres in Mono...