by News Staff | Mar 6, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
As we had reported, LADWP has refused to cooperate with the local Air Pollution Control District and its required assessment of the need for more dust clean-up at the Owens Dry Lake bed. LADWP appealed the APCD requirements to the California Air Resources Board and...
by News Staff | Feb 28, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
In recent days, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power issued a press release to complain about having to clean up the Owens Dry Lake dust, the worst pollution source of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. LA water diversions created the dusty lake bed. ...
by News Staff | Feb 24, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
In Mammoth Lakes, water district officials now deal with Department of Water and Power lawsuits aimed at all of Mammoth Creek water. LADWP says it’s their water, not Mammoth’s. On Tuesday, February 21, LADWP staff and attorneys met with Mammoth Community...
by News Staff | Feb 23, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will apparently clean up 98% of the toxic Owens Lake dust, but they don’t want to go the whole 100%. In a lengthy press release from DWP Senior Assistant General Manager for Water, James McDaniel, the news came out...
by News Staff | Feb 2, 2012 | Government Agencies/Utilities
This year’s Department of Water and Power Pumping Plan will take 8400 acre feet more than the Inyo Supervisors wanted. At one point the Board asked DWP to reduce its 91,000 acre foot pumping plan by 8400 acre feet in the Thibaut and Aberdeen wellfields. DWP...
