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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby cactuspete » Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:14 am

Central Nevada water authority opposes pipeline
It looks like there's a bit of a water war going on in Nevada. Reducing per capita water usage seems like a better strategy than encroaching on groundwater resources. This should be an interesting battle to watch!
The Nye County Water District board filed a letter stating the Nye County groundwater basins aren’t directly a subject of the environmental impact statement for the water pipeline project in eastern Nevada, but expressed concern over the proximity of the project to Nye County and the potential for future pipeline extensions. The water board letter, dated Oct. 10, said, “it is felt that the scale of this initial project and its likely expansion once established, would eventually impact the future growth and well being of Nye County by threatening the sustainability of its groundwater resources, the only water source available.”

LINK: http://pvtimes.com/news/central-nevada-water-authority-opposes-pipeline/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby cactuspete » Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:33 am

Technical group on pumping
LA continues to do everything it can to suck Owens Valley dry!!! :curse:
No surprise here in this story. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Inyo County continue to lock horns over groundwater pumping. Will Inyo dispute the latest attempt by DWP to take as much groundwater as they want? The Inyo Supervisors may decide at their December 6th meeting.

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/9090/technical-group-on-pumping/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby cactuspete » Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:34 am

Perennial water issue drags on
Like the constant drip of a leaky faucet, this issue just never goes away...
None of the officials voiced the unspoken fear – that DWP will never accept the logical conclusion that the level of groundwater tables must be used to judge when pumps go off to protect plants. Inyo never got that concession in the original Long Term Agreement, and most believe DWP has no incentive to agree now.

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/9197/perennial-water-issue-drags-on/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby wildrose » Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:08 am

OVC and DFG settle suit over hatchery water
Interesting info in this article.
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Most of the Department of Water and Power groundwater pumping in Inyo County goes to the two fish hatcheries and then ends up in the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The Owens Valley Committee sued Fish and Game for failure to examine pumping impacts related to the operation of its hatcheries. Now, the two sides have reached a settlement which would limit pumping at Black Rock Hatchery and look for ways to improve the groundwater tables around Fish Springs Hatchery.

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/9394/ovc-and-dfg-settle/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby pcslim » Sat Jan 07, 2012 8:38 am

LADWP wants Mammoth’s water
Maybe the state should step in an require LA to build a desalination plant. All water rights in the Owens Valley should revert back to Owens Valley and LA should be forced to pay dearly for any water taken from the valley. Of course, the people of Owens Valley should have the right of refusal on this matter. That would be the sane, rational, fair, and reasonable thing to do in this situation! If individuals can be forced off their land when it's in the public interest, then the LADWP should lose their water rights since that would obviously be in the public interest!
Officials of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power denied last year that their philosophy is to get all the water they can get. The Owens Valley knew that was a thin denial. Now, so does Mammoth Lakes. LADWP filed a suit that claims Mammoth Lakes has no water rights to Mammoth Creek, the major town water supply. The City says it’s all their water.

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/9505/ladwp-wants-mammoths-water/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby cactuspete » Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:24 am

Inyo-DWP clash over pumps
I really appreciate the way the Sierra Wave keeps the community informed about the activities of the LADWP in Owens Valley. It would be nice to see more progress made in the area of environmental renewal, but at least we know the damage being done by the need of Los Angeles for water.
This year’s Department of Water and Power Pumping Plan will take 8400 acre feet more than the Inyo Supervisors wanted. At one point the Board asked DWP to reduce its 91,000 acre foot pumping plan by 8400 acre feet in the Thibaut and Aberdeen wellfields. DWP said fine but they would add that same amount to pumping in Laws and Independence – two areas damaged considerably by pumping over the years. Inyo Supervisors have decided not to dispute this even though officials said it would do damage.

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/9982/clash-over-pumps/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby desertrat » Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:53 am

LADWP plays hardball with MCWD
This whole water rights game is a complete scam! Water rights should belong to whoever lives on the land, not some over-crowded and poorly managed city hundreds of miles away! This country has some of the most stupid and insane laws on the planet! Scrap the stupid laws and write some laws that actually make sense!!! As long as the stupid laws exist there is no way to solve real problems!
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The tactics in the fight against MCWD resembles LADWP’s combative approach to the Owens Dry Lake issues – picking on small districts with modest budgets who then have to lawyer up. Officials say Inyo County may be next in line for a fight with DWP over more water. Without Mammoth Creek water, there is no Mammoth Lakes.

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/10432/ladwp-plays-hardball/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby mrfish » Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:54 am

Environmental groups and tribe attack DWP practices
It must be a pain in the butt to always have to monitor the sneaky tactics used by the DWP to increase the water they can take from Owens Valley! Maybe a judge should step in and actually do something to keep the DWP honest for a change!
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The Owens Valley Committee (OVC), Sierra Club and Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley have partnered to challenge the Negative Declaration for the Big Pine Northeast Regreening Project certified by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) March 6, 2012. The three groups have filed suit in Inyo County Superior Court to overturn the decision to approve the project and to order LADWP to prepare an environmental impact report (EIR). The groups contend that operating a groundwater pump to replace surface water supplied to the project may have significant impacts on the environment and that under state law LADWP is required to prepare an EIR to properly disclose and evaluate those potential impacts.

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/11316/environmental-groups-and/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby pcslim » Thu May 17, 2012 7:56 am

Insane water dealings :curse:
It would be nice for the LADWP to lose all rights to water in Inyo County and for the county to be granted full control of its resources. From there Inyo County could sell water to LA if it wanted to. The environmental devastation to Owens Valley in unacceptable and it seems that the people of LA should be paying more for their water. Instead the people of Owens Valley pay as a result of the environmental devastation.
Albert Einstein reportedly once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Under that definition, Inyo officials fit the insanity category when it comes to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s annual pumping plan.

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/12138/insane-water-dealings/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby wildrose » Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:30 am

LADWP vs. MCWD back in court
Times have changed and the devastating impact of removing water from the entire Owens Valley region is better understood now. Reason and environmental concerns should trump legal "rights" carved out a century ago by the rich and ambitious!
Norby said that he understands that the topic for today’s court appearance is the state of the administrative records for both lawsuits – one suit over the Mammoth Creek EIR and the other attacking Mammoth’s Urban Water Management Plan. Both cases allege Mammoth has no rights to Mammoth Creek water and that Los Angeles does hold those rights.

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/12528/ladwp-vs-mcwd/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby mrfish » Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:55 am

Dry Lake hearing revealed hostile LADWP
LADWP broke it and so now they should fix it! Seems simple enough, but the greedy bastards refuse to do the right thing and they'll spend tons of money to get out of fulfilling their responsibilities!
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On the attack – that’s the way observers described Los Angeles Department of Water and Power attorney, Stuart Somach as he battled through a hearing before the California Air Resources Board in Sacramento against local air pollution control orders in Inyo County. APCD Director Ted Schade had analyzed the Owens Dry Lake pollution, as required by a signed agreement and by law. He found the need for DWP to clean up 2.9 square miles more to meet federal air quality standards. LADWP exploded and refused.

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/12566/dry-lake-hearing/
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Re: DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley

Postby wildrose » Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:48 am

DWP boss chastises Mammoth’s water district and LA Times
Enough of this already. The state needs to intervene and declare LA's water rights null and void and force LA to pay for every drop of water that gets pumped from the Owens Valley with the communities in the Owens Valley controlling the amount of water that gets sent off to LA! That's the only fair and reasonable way to do things. The fact that some slime ball managed to acquire water rights a century ago should be completely irrelevant!
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In what some have called a bipolar press release, Nichols insists LA does not want to take Mammoth’s water and then chastises Mammoth for using LA’s water. Which is it? At one point Nichols said LA wants to “share” water with Mammoth. Then he says LA has no obligation to “provide free water to Mammoth Community Water District.”

LINK: http://www.sierrawave.net/12880/dwp-boss-chastises/
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