by News Staff | Mar 11, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
The State Department of Water Resources recently conducted this winter’s third snow survey. Surveyors have now been quoted as saying that water content in the mountain snowpack is “well below normal for the date.” This according to the DWR website....
by News Staff | Mar 4, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
In 1940, the family of Stan Matlick of Bishop won a court decision called the Hillside Decree that limits groundwater pumping in the Bishop area to the amount used on Los Angeles-owned lands in what’s called the Bishop Cone. No groundwater is to be exported....
by News Staff | Feb 26, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
More than twenty-two years ago, Inyo County and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power signed a long term agreement that was supposed to end disputes over groundwater pumping. Those disputes continue, and there is still no agreed upon method to control pumps....
by News Staff | Feb 25, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
UPDATE: Weather Forecaster Dennis Mattinson adds to this story: “Right now my weather crystal ball doesn’t show any significant precipitation until the end of the first week of March. Let me put this another way, we are now exiting what usually is one of...
by News Staff | Feb 14, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
In spite of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s singular obsession with getting as much water as possible out of the Owens Valley, landscape architecture students from Cal Poly Pomona have come up with a vision of their own for the next century in...
