by News Staff | May 21, 2013 | General Misc. Stories, Obituaries
Stanley Allen Matlick, a man who continued his family’s fight for water in the Eastern Sierra, has died. Mr. Matlick passed away Thursday, May 16 at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno after a brief illness; he lived 81 wonderful years, said his daughter,...
by News Staff | Apr 24, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Not much water to go around in this second dry year in a row. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power continues to divert all streams and the Owens River into the aqueduct, and DWP wants to pump around 70,000 acre feet of the underground water this runoff year....
by News Staff | Oct 31, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
More than 50 people gathered in Independence Monday to hear how their water systems suffer from seriously aging pipes and no capital improvement funds to take care of it. Back in the late 80s, the Inyo Supervisors negotiated with the Los Angeles Department of Water...
by News Staff | Oct 25, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Procrastination – that appears to have been the management style that Inyo County has used with the town water systems of Independence, Lone Pine and Laws. Inyo took on those systems from LADWP about 20 years ago. Only now has it come to light that at least two...
by News Staff | Aug 14, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
More than 15 years ago, citizens of Inyo County tried to tell their officials that they should not let the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dump town water systems back on the people. The Supervisors signed a Long Term Water Agreement that did let DWP off the...
