DWP Wants More Water From Owens Valley
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 7:45 am
DWP wants to pump more water from Owens Valley
They destroyed a lake by pumping water out of Owens Valley and now they want more!
LINK: http://news.sierrawave.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4444:dwp-wants-to-pump-more-water-from-owens-valley
They destroyed a lake by pumping water out of Owens Valley and now they want more!
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wants to pump more water from the Owens Valley this year, and DWP did not come up with pumping plans for Big Pine and Aberdeen based on groundwater levels as Inyo County had asked. The good news this year - lots of run-off. DWP says it's 150% of the long term average. In fact, Los Angeles will take care of its own water supply this year largely with Eastern Sierra water. DWP's operations plan says 71% of this year's water supply for the City of LA comes from right here. 17% from Metropolitan Water District purchases and 10% from LA groundwater. While LADWP will lean heavily on Inyo-Mono water, their operations plan has made no effort to fulfill Inyo's request last year to develop a special pumping plan for Aberdeen and Big Pine that would use depth to water as a basis for management. Amazingly, DWP uses a complex formula of soil moisture and other factors to decide when to pump and when to stop.
LINK: http://news.sierrawave.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4444:dwp-wants-to-pump-more-water-from-owens-valley