by News Staff | Mar 8, 2024 | Local News, News Releases, Press Release, Public Service Announcement
BISHOP CREEK WATER ASSOCIATION The next monthly meeting of the Bishop Creek Water Association will be Tuesday March 12, at 7:00 pm. The meeting will be held at the Inyo County Office of Education/Jill Kinmont Boothe School facility, 166 Grandview Drive, Bishop, in...
by News Staff | Jun 12, 2016 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy It’s back. The water table in parts of West Bishop is not just high, it’s popping through the asphalt, turning lawns into bogs and invading garages. Ron Lawrence on Carol Lane has a pump pulling 2,000 gallons a day out of his yard. A neighbor across the...
by News Staff | Apr 16, 2015 | General Misc. Stories
By Deb Murphy The Bishop Creek Water Association approved tougher standards for new and existing ponds at its Tuesday meeting. Faced with an historically low 4 percent snow pack in the Eastern Sierra and 36 percent run-off, assuming precipitation in the next six...
by News Staff | Mar 23, 2015 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy Mark Lacey asked that area ranchers and West Bishop residents “work together and suffer together.” Steve Stevens anticipated that request and is working toward a system that would equitably distribute the reduced flows out of the Bishop Creek drainage...
by News Staff | Oct 21, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Landscape season has mostly faded away, and the mood of homeowners in West Bishop has mostly faded too along with the water that flows down Bishop Creek from the upper lakes. Empty ponds in front yards, as one man put it, are ugly and the state of water flow is...
