- Following is a press release from the Owens Valley Committee: The Owens Valley Committee (OVC) has finally given up on the Owens Lake Planning Committee. In the morning session of the Planning Committee meeting of May 15, 2013, DWP’s Marty Adams said, “It’s a lot to ask of anyone to continue to work with [...]
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Letter to Sierra Wave from LADWP
- The following letter was written by James G. Yannotta, Manager Of Aqueduct, Los Angeles Department of Water Power: The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is providing this letter to the editor in response to the May 5, 2013 Sierra Wave story titled “Inyo officials concerned about environment, water agreement” because the story includes [...]
LADWP landscaping going ‘water wise’
- Following is a press release from the LADWP: The Inyo-Mono Master Gardener Program and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are partnering to implement a series of xeriscape garden beds at the LADWP Administrative Office on Mandich Street in Bishop. Over the next few months the Master Gardeners and LADWP will [...]
Letter to Sierra Wave: Saluting Inyo’s votes
- 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 [...]
Big Day for Owens Lake Spring Day
PRESS RELEASE: The Owens Lake Spring Day on April 23, 2013 results are attached below. It is a staggering number. Many thanks to the volunteer birders who came from all over the state and also thanks to Debbie House and her crew of LADWP biologists. We put teams out on the lake all day and [...]
Museum Opens LA Aqueduct Exhibit
The Eastern California Museum issued the following press release: The Eastern California Museum will unveil its new photo exhibit, “Building Bill’s Ditch, The Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1913-2013,” on Saturday May 11, starting at 10 a.m. The exhibit provides a glimpse into five years it took to design and build the 233-mile long Los Angeles Aqueduct. [...]
LADWP loses federal case
For Immediate Release: Federal Court Ends Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Lawsuit in Owens Lake case Date: May 2, 2013 Today, the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s high-profile lawsuit against the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District and other environmental agencies was dismissed by the U.S. District Court [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: kids talk, local meltdown, and the dark lord of media
“From city halls to county courthouses, from the State house to the White House – bureaucrats control our lives. Public servants who often try to become our masters. People whose salaries we pay, but what goods and services do we get? On Sierra Wave’s Bureaucrat Beat, we’ll report what they’re up to.” That’s the Bureaucrat [...]
Contrails or chemtrails?
Some residents of the Bishop area have lately complained about jet airplane contrails in the sky and the belief that chemical products or some type of haze may hang in the Eastern Sierra skies as a result. The Air Pollution Control District looked into it. Andrea Pucci of Bishop contacted APCD Director Ted Schade to [...]
Meeting on serious condition of water systems
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 of the systems will need nearly $10 [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: Overbearing parent, Cool Hand Luke, and bribes
“From city halls to county courthouses, from the State house to the White House – bureaucrats control our lives. Public servants who often try to become our masters. People whose salaries we pay, but what goods and services do we get? On Sierra Wave’s Bureaucrat Beat, we’ll report what they’re up to.” That’s the Bureaucrat [...]
A bit of good news
In the face of potential municipal bankruptcy, an attack on its water by LADWP, a loss of jobs at Mammoth Mountain and the newest rough news – closure of June Mountain, Mammoth Lakes Tourism issued at least a smidgen of good news – gas prices in Southern California have dropped and visitor numbers are up [...]
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