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 spoke at length about the importance [...]
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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 [...]
Water Commission to discuss DWP operations plan
Not much water to go around in this second dry year in a row. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power continues to divert all streams and the Owens River into the aqueduct, and DWP wants to pump around 70,000 acre feet of the underground water this runoff year. Thursday night, the Inyo Water [...]
LADWP pumping plan released
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 also says that if the Inyo-Los Angeles Standing Committee [...]
Mammoth Town Council: landfill, BID and marathon
In ten years, Mono County will have to find an alternative to Benton Crossing Landfill. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power doesn’t want to lease the land for that purpose after 2023. At the Mammoth Town Council meeting Wednesday night, Mayor Pro Tem Rick Wood said Town and County officials are talking about [...]
LADWP offers plan, makes no water promises
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Director of Water Operations, Martin Adams, returned to the Inyo Supervisors Tuesday with a project plan concept for the Owens Dry Lake. Bottom line – DWP wants to cut water use for dust control at the lake by half, pump water from under the lake, limit future [...]
LADWP wants to cut irrigation
In it’s official runoff forecast, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power figures the Owens Valley at 54% of normal and the Mono Basin at 66% of normal. Before issuance of those figures, DWP sent the Inyo Water Department a letter to say they propose a 20% reduction in groundwater pumping for irrigation needs [...]
Letter to the editor: The real facts on LADWP
April 7, 2013 Nancy Masters P.O. Box 478 Independence, CA 93526 Dear Citizens of Inyo County, On April 2, 2013 Mr. Martin Adams of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power addressed the Inyo County Board of Supervisors about the Owens Lake Master Plan, which was a collaborative process that had been underway for [...]
No comment on MCWD/LADWP meeting
Officials from Mammoth Community Water District and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power sat down in a private negotiation session last Friday in Sacramento. The issue – LADWP’s lawsuits that attack Mammoth’s water rights. The two sides are still operating under a confidentiality agreement and declined comment. Water District Attorney Steve Kronick said [...]
DWP water chief reveals new, global dry lake proposal
A letter issued this week by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power looked to some like a new, over-arching strategy by DWP to accomplish its Owens Dry Lake goals. What had been on the back burner now stands front and center – a Master Plan for the Owens Dry Lake but only if [...]
MCWD negotiations on again with LADWP
Last November, Mammoth Community Water District officials said the District and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power had made “substantial progress toward an agreement” over a Mammoth Creek water rights dispute. Even the Los Angeles Times reported that settlement appeared imminent. Then, for an undisclosed reason, it all fell through and both sides [...]
LADWP sends lawyers, others to gripe about APCD budget
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power recently sent two attorneys, one staff person and outside consultants to Bridgeport to gripe about the Air Pollution Control District budget. They particularly criticized APCD’s expense of $25,000 for computers and an ATV to work at the Owens Dry Lake. At the last Town Council meeting, Mammoth [...]
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