by News Staff | Apr 27, 2017 | General Misc. Stories
Submitted by Philip Anaya A miracle is in the making in the Owens Valley . For the first time in 48 years the Eastern Sierra has more snowpack, more runoff, than we know what to do with . Although flooding and its effects loom large in the immediate future, the...
by News Staff | Jan 14, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
At the Bishop City Council meeting Monday – news on a new court building, a new dispatch contract with Symons Ambulance, and a tie-vote on legislation that would ban plastic bags. First the court building. The Administrative Office of the Courts explained to the...
by News Staff | Jan 13, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
While the Inyo Water Department searches for answers to dried up West Bishop wells and a ten-foot drop in a monitoring well, citizens have begun to galvanize their concerns over lakes, creeks, water ditches, ponds and the groundwater table. One local citizen, Philip...
by News Staff | Dec 18, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
As wells go dry in West Bishop, one resident, Philip Anaya, has launched an effort to impact the management of the Bishop Creek drainage next summer. Anaya read a letter to the Inyo Supervisors on Tuesday that he has sent to Department of Water and Power Manager James...