by News Staff | Mar 20, 2016 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The public carried its disagreement over new wells proposed by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to Wednesday’s Technical Group meeting, arguing that environmental analysis should proceed any well drilling or testing. The wells at the center of...
by News Staff | Mar 16, 2016 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Los Angeles Department of Water and Power seems to have added “landfills” to its charter, at least in Inyo County. The County has been trying to revise its permits for landfills in Bishop, Lone Pine and Independence increasing tonnage limits and syncing...
by News Staff | Mar 13, 2016 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The issue of incomplete mitigation projects has reached critical mass with the Owens Valley Committee and Sierra Club. The two organizations have asked for a dispute resolution meeting of the partners in the 1997 Memorandum of Understanding, setting a...
by News Staff | Feb 16, 2016 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Three hundred acres scarred by lost meadow grasses in the Five Bridges area, north of Bishop, south of the Owens River, could be the poster child for failed mitigation of groundwater pumping. The mantra — if there is damage, it will be mitigated...
by News Staff | Feb 9, 2016 | Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy With a little wordsmithing, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s request for an okay on the development of a plan to reduce water allocations for irrigation and mitigation projects in the event of a fifth consecutive year of drought came...
