by News Staff | May 2, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Will the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power start to charge Bishop and Lone Pine golf courses for the water they use? DWP Aqueduct Manager Jim Yannotta said he does not know yet whether the new golf course leases will require payment for water or not. He also...
by News Staff | Apr 22, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
In this dry year, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power plans to pump in the “high 70,000 acre-feet range” in the Owens Valley, according to a letter sent to the Inyo Water Director from the DWP Manager of the Aqueduct, James Yannotta. The letter...
by News Staff | Apr 2, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
The snowpack in California provides water for about one-third of the state’s people and farms. This year, that source has remained less than half of normal for this time of year. State reservoirs do still hold quite a bit of water which will help supplement that...
by News Staff | Mar 30, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Love ’em and Leave ’em by Daniel Pritchett, Bishop Los Angeles’ conquest of Owens Valley was famously compared to rape by Morrow Mayo in 1932. In 2006, LA Water and Power Commissioner Mary Nichols compared the Owens Valley-LA relationship to a...
by News Staff | Mar 26, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
The US Forest Service is writing a Forest Plan Revision for Inyo National Forest and they are asking for public input. The paper they are working from has 118 sections of which one section has to do with Social, Cultural and Economic Conditions (that is us) and two...
