by Deb Murphy | Mar 13, 2020 | Government Agencies/Utilities
The Owens Valley Groundwater Authority board will need a much smaller table to seat the six remaining members when it meets this afternoon in the Bishop City Council chambers. But, that number could change with the addition of organizations that have been eager for a...
by News Staff | Aug 12, 2019 | General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities
By Deb Murphy The tentative low priority status of the Owens Valley groundwater basin has only heightened the complexity of the Owens Valley Groundwater Authority’s meetings, not lowered them. The current nine board members opted to hold off on additional meetings...
by News Staff | Aug 2, 2016 | Government Agencies/Utilities
(The following is a corrected version of an earlier story) By Deb Murphy All the parties involved in the Tri Valley water basin will be waiting two months to see if the California Water Commission accepts the recommendation to consider the groundwater from Chalfant to...
by News Staff | Feb 12, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
The recent storms did give the Eastern Sierra snowpack a bump, but just a bump. On the Department of Water and Power website, the current precipitation charts show Mammoth Pass water content barely above the driest year on record, which is the snowpack of...
by News Staff | Jan 7, 2014 | Government Agencies/Utilities
The California Department of Water Resources has conducted its first snow survey of the winter. Officials said they found “more bare ground than snow.” According to a news release from the DWR, “Manual and electronic readings record the...
