by News Staff | Mar 21, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The Technical Group meetings have morphed into the E-ticket of all local meetings. Comprised of representatives of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Inyo County Water Department staff, agenda items are approved with agreement on both sides,...
by News Staff | Mar 15, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The first few hours of Wednesday’s Technical Group meeting continued the verbal wrestling match between Inyo County and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over a proposed two-month pumping test on Five Bridges’ W385. Then came the question of...
by News Staff | Feb 19, 2018 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is suing Inyo County for violating the California Environmental Quality Act by attempting to “obtain property and water rights owned” by Los Angeles at three county land-fills without conducting “the...
by News Staff | Feb 11, 2018 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy How long has Big Pine’s Veterans Path been around? Let’s just say if your bike had training wheels when it was first brought up, you’d be getting your driver’s license by now. According to Fourth District Supervisor Mark Tillemans, a native Piner, the...
by News Staff | Jan 22, 2018 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy And the winner is….. Following a couple of community workshops and a broad range of potential end uses for the first reclaimed water project in the Owens Valley, consultants RO Anderson’s report came as no surprise. The firm zeroed in on the most...