by News Staff | May 4, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
– Letter to the Editor submitted by the Owens Valley Committee The Owens Valley Committee met Wednesday to discuss short-term solutions for getting water to the valley’s ranchers. The group called this emergency meeting in reaction to Los Angeles...
by News Staff | May 3, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
– Submitted by Daniel Pritchett The Inyo Supervisors’ “Talking Water” workshop must have been quite an extravaganza to judge by the Inyo Register’s coverage (4/30/15). Unfortunately, portions of the proceedings were all too predictable: misleading...
by News Staff | May 1, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
Op-Ed by Amanda Parsons, LADWP Spokesperson When gazing at the Sierra Nevada Mountains this year there is a harsh reality staring back: California is in the midst of a four-year drought – a drought so dire that it is unparalleled by any in the recorded history of the...
by News Staff | Apr 29, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Less than 24 hours before the Inyo County Board of Supervisors “Talking Water Workshop” Tuesday, ranchers were sent an e-mail from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power advising them their irrigation water would be curtailed Friday, May 1, just...
by News Staff | Apr 27, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch is lying in an induced-coma for the next decade, or so. While the 200-megawatt solar project east of Manzanar was removed from the Priority Queue List March 15, the...