- The following letter to Sierra Wave was written by Philip Anaya of Bishop: Dear Sierra Wave: (Tuesday) the Inyo County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 with one abstention (Mark Tillemans) to not reduce the irrigation water for the Ranchers of the Owens Valley. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, in its request to [...]
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Supervisors disturbed by DWP water policies but take no bold steps on pumping
When the Inyo Supervisors sat down to talk about the Department of Water and Power’s proposed groundwater pumping plan for this runoff year, Supervisor Rick Pucci, clearly disturbed, brought up the privately discussed issue of the Bishop and Lone Pine golf courses pushed by DWP to pay for their water. He pointed to the Bishop [...]
In Inyo and in Sacramento
The Inyo Supervisors planned to hold a special meeting Monday at 9am in Independence. The agenda says the Board would go into closed session first for an evaluation of the Water Director. After that, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power water operations or pumping plan is second under Departmental items. According to the [...]
LADWP goes back to Inyo Supervisors
Eager to push their latest Owens Dry Lake plan, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will send their Water Operations Director Martin Adams back to the Inyo Supervisors meeting Tuesday. Put simply, that plan could accelerate past the Owens Dry Lake Planning Group, would seek to eliminate any more dust controls at the [...]
Inyo Supervisors vote for Crystal Geyser expansion
After more than four hours of talk, testimony and votes, the Inyo Supervisors denied appeals, called for a more extensive monitoring program and approved the planning measures that moved forward a major $25 million expansion project of the Crystal Geyser Plant at Cartago. The Elton Family Trust, the Cartago Water Company and the Owens Valley [...]
Inyo Clerk goes the distance to help voters
Before the general election, national news reports revealed attempts to block people from voting – with new laws, ID requirements and confusing voting hours. But, in Inyo County, Clerk Kammi Foote went the distance to make sure people could vote and that students could learn about democracy firsthand in the process. Foote reported to the [...]
Standing Committee meeting on old issues
One more aspect of LA’s confrontational tone? That’s what Inyo Water Director Bob Harrington suggested in a discussion of yet one more disagreement with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. It’s about salt cedar removal, part of the settlement over the Lower Owens River Project lawsuit. LA is resisting going ahead with the [...]
Town water system dilemma
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 and Power on a Long Term Water Agreement to settle [...]
Aging Inyo water systems have no back-up fund
Twenty years ago or so, citizens tried to tell the Inyo Supervisors not to let the Department of Water and Power dump town water systems on the County. The Board did it anyway as part of the Long Term Water Agreement. The idea was to find a way for southern Inyo residents to have affordable [...]
LADWP wants to deny water to McNally Ponds
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, accused of an accelerated search for every drop of water in the Eastern Sierra, now does not want to put water into the McNally ponds which is a required enhancement/mitigation project in Laws north of Bishop. The Inyo Water Commission recommends that the Inyo Supervisors support supplying [...]
Push to veto SB 1148
Inyo and Mono County governments and former Mono Senator Dave Cogdill will not give up the fight to defeat Sentae Bill 1148. Cogdill, an experienced legislator who fought to protect hatcheries and fishing, created Assembly Bill 7 to do the job. He says Fish and Game has never tried to follow that law and should [...]
Inyo-Mono Supervisors: New position, new bill and an appointment
At the Inyo Supervisors meeting today, County Administrator Kevin Carunchio planned to come back with a request to change some positions in his department. Carunchio asked the Supervisors to delete one Deputy County Administrator position and add one Senior Deputy County Administrator position. The funds for the Senior Deputy, between $7,026 and $8,540, will come [...]
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