Showing posts with label LA Department of Water and Power (DWP). Show all posts
Showing posts with label LA Department of Water and Power (DWP). Show all posts
July 13, 2017

L.A. took their water and land a century ago. Now the Owens Valley is fighting back

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The Los Angeles Aqueduct, which transports water from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles, was built in the early 1900s. (Los Angeles Times) ...
March 28, 2017

LADWP scrambling to prepare dusty Owens Valley for possible floods

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Overflow from the Owens River creates a mirror pond near Bishop reflecting the snow-capped Sierras. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) by...
June 6, 2016

Infamous water heist -- and hubris -- reap poison whirlwind

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Winds whip dust off the dry 110-square mile Owens Lake bed during a March 2010 storm. The lake, the site of Los Angeles’ infamous water gr...
April 5, 2016

Feds approve controversial remote desert solar plant near Baker

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A bighorn sheep climbs the terrain of the Mojave National Preserve, about a mile northeast of the proposed site for the Soda Mountain Sola...
November 15, 2015

Researchers determine origin of mysterious stone columns along Crowley Lake

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A mystery in stone Robin Wham photographs the columns, which for decades were regarded as little more than curiosities along the eastern sho...
November 30, 2012

County Opposes Wind Turbines On Black Lava Butte and Flat Top Mesa

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Black Lava Butte and Flat Top Mesa. San Bernardino County Sentinel I n one of his last acts as Third District county supervisor, Neil ...
March 12, 2010

Community celebrates Green Path North's demise

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By Jutta Biggerstaff Hi-Desert Star Ruth Rieman and April Sall, leaders of the California Desert Coalition, embrace after the announce...
March 11, 2010

DWP drops plan to build 85-mile power transmission line across the desert

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Environmental groups opposed the $800-million Green Path North Transmission Line because it would have crossed wilderness preserves and scen...
December 2, 2009

Owens Lake as solar power plant?

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The DWP seeks to build a 660-acre pilot project on the dry lake bed -- and avoid doing an environmental impact report. A solar array could ...
September 22, 2009

L.A. may drop plans for controversial transmission line

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The DWP's proposed 85-mile-long Green Path North line through unspoiled desert and wildlife preserves was opposed by community and envir...
June 10, 2009

Edison to decommission Mohave power plant

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The company closed the coal-fired facility in Laughlin NV in 2006 because it needed expensive upgrades. Associated Press Los Angeles Times T...
April 19, 2009

Birds return to Owens Lake, unexpectedly

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Hoping to control dust, L.A.'s DWP poured ankle-deep water into a Central California lake bed. Now tens of thousands of migrating waterf...
February 27, 2009

New Green Path North proposal would avoid sensitive desert areas

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By JANET ZIMMERMAN The Press-Enterprise A new route proposed for a controversial power line would sidestep sensitive Mojave Desert land by ...
December 19, 2008

DWP sticks with Green Path North project, rejects Edison's offer to use power lines

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By DAVID DANELSKI The Press-Enterprise S outhern California Edison is offering an alternative to the Green Path North power line project tha...