Read additional stories and view photos, videos and interactive maps at https ... Paul Liu, manager of the Owens Lake dust mitigation program for LADWP, is looking forward to what comes next.

The LADWP has tried a lot of things to control dust rising from the dry Owens Lake bed and has seen a significant reduction in particulate pollution. It's flooded some areas of the lake ...

Reporting from Lone Pine, Calif. — Fearsome gusts of desert wind routinely kicked up swirling clouds of choking dust over Owens Lake on the east side of the Sierra Nevada after 1913, when its ...

They point to Owens Lake, located about 120 miles south, as a cautionary tale about what can happen if the LADWP takes too much water. That lake went completely dry years back, causing massive ...

Great Basin has a financial interest in holding LADWP responsible for dust at Owens Lake. Great Basin is also holding 'in reserve' approximately $1.9 million in 'unused' fees that LADWP had previously ...

That's because citizens banded together to prevent what happened to Owens Lake. The Mono Lake Committee, founded in the 1970s, won a legal victory in 1983 to keep the LADWP from draining the ...

according to the LADWP. Regardless, this recent influx of water will further help to reduce the lake's dust problem. Owens Lake isn't the only dried-up water body being refilled by recent weather ...

Besides providing water and electricity for L.A. residents, the LADWP has ... onto a dry lake near Lone Pine. Even during the worst drought in memory, water still flows onto Owens Lake.

“This is a major sea change in terms of trying to get things right at Owens (Lake),” said DWP General Manager Ron Nichols. “We’re very excited. “The LADWP remains fully committed to its ...

Recording-breaking snow runoff from the eastern Sierra Nevada threatens DWP operations at Owens Lake to control dust and water flow. The lakebed is 108 square miles in area, while LADWP's dust ...

The landfills are operated by Inyo County, but sit on LADWP-owned land ... $1.2 billion to control noxious dust from the dried up Owens Lake. According to the Sacramento Bee, it is the largest ...

Maps tell stories ... water to a 61-mile stretch of the river and lake. In spite of the efforts, though, the old west past of Owens Valley will never be reborn. Los Angeles Public Library map ...