![]() The California Department of Water Resources has responded to the Delta Counties Coalition’s letter about the scoping deadline for the proposed Delta Conveyance Project in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.Ĭlick here to read the letter. More information about future meetings can be found at. The DCA needs to hear about the environmental problems with the project and the other better ways to meet their agencies’ water supply needs that won’t irreparably harm the Delta. Consider tuning in to the next meeting and commenting if you can. ![]() The DCA is comprised of member water districts that hope to received water supplies from the tunnel. Īlso, the Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Authority (DCA) is conducting engineering and planning for the tunnel project for the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and meets the third Thursday of every month. Read the latest from the Restore the Delta Coalition at Delta Counties CoalitionĬheck out the Delta Counties Coalition website at. You can read the latest updates from the Department of Water Resources on this project at. Click here to learn why.Ĭurrent Information Department of Water Resources Now the plans are for one tunnel instead of two, but that doesn’t mean the new plan is any better for the residents and ecosystems of California. Los Angeles water interests have used it to hammer hard on the need for the Delta Tunnel to protect critical water needs for 26 million people down south.Have you heard of the “Twin Tunnels,” or the “Delta Tunnels?” How about the “California Water Fix,” “WaterFix,” “Delta Conveyance Project,” or “Bay Delta Conveyance Plan (BDCP)?”Įach of these are different names for projects that all involve building at least one underground tunnel to export water from the Delta. While climate change is natural and there are two schools of thought at how much mankind is, or isn’t acierating it, one thing is for sure. It will make what happened to the environment, farming and economic vitality of the Owens Valley look like child’s play. Meanwhile, up and down the Highway 395 corridor, LA Water & Power crews are scurrying to prevent nature from unleashing wanton destruction on the water conveyance systems LA relies on once the melt of a snowpack that is almost triple of normal starts in earnest.Īs the “Mother of All Snow Melts” approaches, Southern California’s water manipulators that have drained the lifeblood economic well-being of other parts of the state to fuel growth they can’t sustain by precipitation within their own watersheds, are plotting their next move. ![]() It is expected to stay that way for at least a week. The most popular destination is Crowley Lake, considered among the best - if not the best - trout fishing lake in California.Īs a result, trout fishermen returning to Mono County at the end of April have been as dependable as the swallows returning to Capistrano.Ĭrowley Lake was still frozen as of Thursday. The last Saturday in April sees anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 trout fishing enthusiasts flock to the county. This Saturday is the traditional opening of the trout fishing season in Mono County. It destroyed a mini-agrarian desert paradise and forever stunted economic prosperity so Los Angeles boosters could destroy endless citrus groves in Southern California and fuel what is arguably one of the most unparalleled expansions of economic prosperity in the history of mankind. There is little doubt the good padre viewed the destruction Los Angeles visited on his flock and their neighbors as the work of the devil. It was Father Crowley who led the charge to save the Owens Valley from economic misery by pushing for the promotion of tourism. LA Water & Power literally killed off Owens Lake that, just over a century ago, covered over 108 square miles by diverting eastern Sierra snowpack runoff into a series of canals, pipelines and aqueducts to fill Los Angeles bath tubs instead of filling Owens Lake. Crowley faithfully served Catholics and communities from Death Valley to Bishop to Lee Vining until his untimely death in a 1940 automobile accident. The lake that holds 183,465 acre feet of water is named for “The Desert Padre”.įather John J. The lake, 15 miles south of Mammoth Lakes on the way to Tom’s Place, can be seen as you fly down a stretch of four-lane Highway 395 that rivals Interstate 5 south of Patterson for speeding. The LA agency is the much despised engineer of the destruction of Owens Valley agriculture that relegated the local economies to dependency on tourism. It was created by a dam built in 1941 by the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power on the upper Owens River. ![]() ![]() The other is 160 miles south of the Delta. ![]()
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