by News Staff | Apr 26, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Submitted by Daniel Pritchett of Bishop I recently compared DWP’s announcement of its decision to abandon Owens Lake Master Plan negotiations to a “Dear John” letter ending a relationship. I also posed the rhetorical question of whether the jilted parties...
by News Staff | Apr 8, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
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...
by News Staff | Apr 3, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Department of Water and Power Water Operations Director Martin Adams tried to put a good spin on a plan to cut dust control and water use on Owens Lake as a prerequisite to a Master Plan for habitat protection at the dry lake bed. The Inyo Supervisors did make it...
by News Staff | Mar 30, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
Love ’em and Leave ’em by Daniel Pritchett, Bishop Los Angeles’ conquest of Owens Valley was famously compared to rape by Morrow Mayo in 1932. In 2006, LA Water and Power Commissioner Mary Nichols compared the Owens Valley-LA relationship to a...
by News Staff | Mar 29, 2013 | Government Agencies/Utilities
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...