Thank you, letter writers! Thank you to the Mono Lake Committee members and supporters who sent many hundreds of letters to the State Water Board spotlighting DWP’s short-sighted plan. DWP ended up withdrawing its flow waiver request because of the…
The Mono Lake Committee is proposing interim reservoir management requirements designed to mitigate the impacts to Rush Creek imposed by Los Angeles Department of Water & Power’s (DWP) aging and malfunctioning infrastructure at Grant Lake Reservoir. For the second year…
The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) continues to develop a multi-phased project focusing on Grant Lake Reservoir infrastructure. The project includes the long-overdue modification to the Grant spillway needed to provide the required Stream Ecosystem Flows (SEFs)…
Rush Creek restoration continues to be delayed as construction of the long-awaited modification to Grant Lake Reservoir is complicated by the replacement of the 88-year-old broken rotovalve buried 80 feet below the edge of the reservoir within the aqueduct intake…
Aging Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) infrastructure is further delaying the construction of the long-awaited modification to Grant Lake Reservoir necessary to reliably deliver the high flows needed to restore Rush Creek. Moving water around Grant Dam…
Water is flowing down the Kern River in Bakersfield for the first time in many years, thanks to the combination of abundant snowmelt and an injunction preventing water diversions from drying up the river. Record runoff from last winter’s historic…
Spillway upgrade construction tentatively planned for next spring One of the few dams without an outlet in the state of California is soon to get one—modification of the Grant Lake Reservoir dam may begin as early as next spring. The…
Grant Lake Reservoir began spilling at 4:30pm on Wednesday, June 7, for the first time since 2019! After several years of very low levels Grant re-filled quickly this spring as record amounts of snow started to melt, culminating with the…
Last fall the California State Water Resources Control Board ordered new requirements to further the restoration of 20 miles of Mono Basin stream habitat on Lee Vining, Rush, Walker, and Parker creeks. Order 21-86 implements new Stream Ecosystem Flows (SEFs)…
During the 2021 runoff year (April 1, 2021–March 31, 2022), the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) was allowed to export up to 16,000 acre-feet of stream diversions from the Mono Basin because Mono Lake was above 6380…
