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	<title>Aquafornia &#187; Owens Valley &amp; Mono Lake</title>
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		<title>Mono Lake March 1 hydrology update</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21365</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mono-logue, this hydrology update:
&#8220;Mono Lake: On April 1st, 2009 (the beginning of this Runoff Year), Mono Lake was at an elevation of 6382.5 feet. It dropped about a foot by the end of the calendar year, and in January and February it rose half a foot, for a net loss of 0.6 feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A.&#8217;s new scheme to plunder Owens Valley water, this time with solar panels</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21223</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21223#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AlterNet:
&#8220;The city of Los Angeles recently announced plans to transform Owens Valley into one of the largest sources of solar power in America, outfitting the region with a massive energy farm that would span 80 square miles and generate up to 10 percent of California&#8217;s total electricity output. It truly is a monster, able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hatchery analysis doesn’t float with Owens Valley Commitee or LA DWP</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20544</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inyo Register:
&#8220;Two local advocates of water in the Owens Valley do not agree with a recent environmental study of state hatcheries drafted by the California Department of Fish and Game.
One, the Owens Valley Committee environmental group, is concerned that continued water pumping at the current rate is not necessary and will disrupt the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles Aqueduct water storage possible near Ridgecrest</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20542</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Sierra Wave:
&#8220;A plan to increase water storage capacity could lead to storage of Eastern Sierra water in an area near Ridgecrest.
In 2008, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa issued a report entitled “Securing LA’s Water Supply.” The report laid out long term plans to meet growth in water demand through conservation, enforcement of water use rules, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owens Valley Committee sues DFG over groundwater pumping</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20274</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/20274#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Sierra Wave:
&#8220;The Owens Valley Committee has filed a lawsuit against Fish and Game over the issue of groundwater pumping at the Black Rock Fish Hatchery north of Independence.
Both the Black Rock and Fish Springs Hatcheries used to be filled by large natural springs, but groundwater pumping by the Los Angeles Deprtment of Water and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LADWP extends ranch leases for properties in Inyo and Mono counties</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19884</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19884#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
&#8220;It appears Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Interim General Manager David Freeman is making good on at least one of the promises made during a recent visit to the Owens Valley.  The LADWP announced this week that, for the first time since the 1970’s, it has approved five-year ranch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A. takes a shine to another Owens Valley product: sun</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/19712</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times:
&#8220;Reporting from Lone Pine &#8211; First it was silver ore that streamed to Los Angeles from the rim of the Owens Valley, then the water from the valley floor.
Now, L.A. has come back for the sunshine.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the agency responsible for turning Owens Lake into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DWP&#8217;s Freeman reaffirms goal of open Inyo-L.A. talks in solar power meeting; Inyo County supes steer solar talk toward land issues</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18785</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
&#8220;Interim General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power S. David Freeman used his well-known charm on a crowd of more than 300 Monday as he and other DWP managers held a public discussion about a proposed solar park on the bed of the Owens Lake.
Freeman received some rounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DWP chief pitches solar farm plans to Owens Valley residents</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18645</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times&#8217; LA Now blog:
&#8220;The head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power tonight told Owens Valley residents that the utility plans to explore the viability of installing massive solar arrays near Lone Pine that potentially could generate the equivalent of a million households&#8217; worth of power
S. David Freeman, general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DWP head to float Owens Lake solar panel proposal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18597</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18597#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register (note: this meeting actually occurred yesterday, but this story was not posted until this morning.  However, it contains a lot of details about the project nonetheless):
The interim general manager for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, S. David Freeman, also known as the “Green Cowboy,” will be in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coso pumps, Little Lake Ranch objects</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18389</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18389#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inyo Register:
&#8220;Just weeks after Coso Operating Company began pumping water from its Hay Ranch property, Little Lake Ranch has sent a formal letter of complaint to the Inyo County Water Department.
Coso is pumping water from Hay Ranch for reinjection into its depleting geothermal reservoirs. Basically, these reservoirs help create steam to drive turbines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mono Lake hydrology update: Ice dam break!</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/17130</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/17130#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mono-logue:
&#8220;When the temperature drops close to zero, some interesting things happen to the flowing water in Mono Lake’s tributaries. I shot this video on December 8th at Rush Creek right after measuring the flow in a side channel. Ominous cracking noises in the silent below freezing air preceded this dramatic burst of water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine to help solve Owens Lake dust issues?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/16896</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/16896#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
&#8220;Because Inyo County has more days of sunshine than almost any other place in the world, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is focusing on its local property, hoping to kick off a solar energy program.
Though no specific sites have been officially selected for construction, the LADWP is looking at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dried-up Owens Lake to get remedial solar array</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/16823</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/16823#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Clean Technica:
&#8220;In probably the first ever example of using solar for environmental remediation, the Los Angeles Department of Water &#038; Power wants to try using a small 50-MW photovoltaic plant at Owens Lake for dust control.
They want to see if it can help stabilize the swirling dust and toxic salts that remain on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owens Lake as solar power plant? The DWP seeks to build a 660-acre pilot project on the dry lake bed &#8212; and avoid doing an environmental impact report</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/16345</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times:
&#8220;Nearly a century after Los Angeles drained Owens Lake by diverting its water to the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the city now hopes to generate solar energy on the dusty salt flats it left behind.
The Department of Water and Power&#8217;s board of commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved a renewable energy pilot project that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DWP seed farm helping to make Owens Valley greener</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/15930</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/15930#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inyo Register:
&#8220;The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is getting into the gardening business.
Crews with the LADWP planted more than 2,000 native plants at Laws, north of Bishop, on Oct. 20 as part of its seed farm program.
For approximately five years the LADWP has been harvesting seeds from various species of native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inyo County Supes to dive into DFG’s hatchery, stocking analysis</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/15321</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
&#8220;County officials are slated to discuss issues ranging from department hires to local fishing at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting.
The Planning Department has prepared a letter to the California Department of Fish and Game on a draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement for the Hatchery Stocking Program.  The board is scheduled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Mono Lake Newsletter now online for everyone</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/15233</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mono-logue:
&#8220;The Fall 2009 edition of the Mono Lake Newsletter is now available online and in color. Can you find yourself in the crowd on the cover? Want to know the status of Willow Flycatchers on Rush Creek? … see the interview with biologist Chris McCreedy on page 6. Did you know that Outdoor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Control of Bishop&#8217;s city park now in local hands</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/14333</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/14333#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
&#8220;After decades of tugging and pulling with the City of Los Angeles, the City of Bishop finally has its hands on a long-term lease for the City Park.  At 10:45 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 23, the Los Angeles City Council finalized a document that will allow a 40-year lease between Bishop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Klondike Lake debate proves unsinkable</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/13385</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/13385#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
&#8220;Inyo County continues to keep the debate about motorized use at Klondike Lake at arms length despite cries for help from a number of concerned citizens.
When the Save Klondike Committee first formed this spring, the board assigned two members, Second District Supervisor Susan Cash and Fourth District Supervisor Marty Fortney, to work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nahai&#8217;s resignation leaves some questions for Owens Valley residents</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/13240</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
&#8220;A change in management for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has raised some questions locally, specifically about Bishop’s attempts to obtain a long-term lease for the City Park property.
David Nahai, the LADWP general manager and CEO, resigned last week, leaving long-time Deputy Mayor and former LADWP Manager S. David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coso breaks ground in Southeast Inyo</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/12516</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inyo Register:
&#8220;Coso Operating Company broke ground on its water pumping project for its geothermal power generating plant last Thursday.  When the project is completed, water will be pumped from Coso’s Hay Ranch property, near Coso Junction, nearly nine miles to the geothermal plant. This water will be added to the geothermal reservoir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coso ready to break ground at Hay Ranch</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/12188</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inyo Register:
&#8220;Coso Operating Company is inching ever so closer to begin pumping water from Hay Ranch to its geothermal plant.
On Thursday, Coso will be breaking ground on the nine miles of pipeline needed to get the water from Coso’s fallow Hay Ranch property for injection into its depleting geothermal reservoir. That water, Coso [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles’ Generation Power realizes the importance of their water conservation work at Mono Lake</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/11557</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/11557#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mono-logue blog:
&#8220;The 2009 Outdoor Experiences season has been going strong all summer! It is the first season here for both me and my co-worker Logan Parsons and we are finding the program very fun and rewarding. I drove out to the Mono Basin from New Hampshire this spring and am still trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coso and Little Lake strike a deal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/11240</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inyo Register:
&#8220;A deal has been cut between the two parties feuding over the water beneath Hay Ranch in southern Inyo County.
Coso Operating Company  has come to a settlement with Little Lake Ranch, following concerns that Coso’s plan to pump water “upstream” from the lake could potentially spell the end for the lake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critics fight DWP&#8217;s moat &amp; row plan for dust control on Owens Lake</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/11186</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
&#8220;Inyo County and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are working together with the Great Basin Air Pollution Control District to push a dust control project at the Owens Dry Lake forward.  Representatives from all three agencies met last week in Los Angeles for an informational session with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture gallery of the Owens Valley and other waterscapes of California and Northern Nevada</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/10943</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently traveled to Reno for a week, stopping along the way and taking lots of pictures. I will be putting these pictures with other pictures I have taken over the years, and will be building another photo tour &#8211; this one of the Owens Valley and the L.A. Aqueduct system.  This post is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed reactions to new marine protection zones</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/10900</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat:
For some, the new state marine protection areas on the North Coast are necessary to bring back depleted fisheries.  For others, they impose an unfair hardship on fishermen near the border of Sonoma and Mendocino counties.
In the coming years, “we are going to see a comeback” in marine species [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LADWP tries to keep Owens Lake dust down</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/10899</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From KABC Channel 7:
&#8220;Despite a serious drought, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has to pump fresh water into the desert, because of a court settlement. Now the DWP is looking for non-water alternatives to control the dust.
Besides providing water and electricity for L.A. residents, the LADWP has been in the dust control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern California waters the desert during a drought?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/10885</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From KABC Channel 7:
&#8220;As Southern California deals with its worst drought in recent memory, Los Angeles is paying a heavy price to put water back into the desert.
Owens Lake dried up 90 years ago after William Mulholland diverted the Owens River into the Department of Water and Power&#8217;s new aqueduct and brought the water to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boating at Klondike possible all summer</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/10168</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
Klondike Lake will be open to recreational use throughout the summer thanks to several dedicated citizens and the support of the Inyo County Board of Supervisors.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced Thursday that Klondike will be opened for motorized watercraft access every Saturday through Sept. 5. The department even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery to re-open to public</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/9041</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 14:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
After fires and floods, the Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery is ready to accept visitors – but, for now, just the human type. The hatchery is not yet ready, physically or financially, to return to the world-class egg producing hatchery it once was.
On July 5-6, 2007, the Inyo Complex Fire burned 55,000 acres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coso Geothermal to begin pumping at Hay Ranch</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/9040</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 14:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
After four years of analysis, environmental review and multiple visits to court rooms and public hearings, Coso Operating Company is finally moving ahead with its Hay Ranch project after the Inyo County Board Supervisors approved the project on May 6. Coso representatives said that they are excited to finally be moving forward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well ordinance may be adopted in Mono County</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8910</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 15:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mammoth Times:
Mono County Environmental Director Louis Molina and Assistant County Council Allen Berrey stood before the Mono County Board of Supervisors on May 5 with a report on how Mono County communities feel about an all-encompassing ordinance that would prohibit the drilling of personal water wells in the county if those wells are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LADWP may have cure for Klondike closure</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8909</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 14:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bishop&#8217;s Inyo Register:
Good news for residents and visitors who water ski and recreate on Klondike Lake: The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has developed a trial schedule for motorized use that keeps the lake open on a limited basis.  The new schedule, released by LADWP last week, keeps the lake open [...]]]></description>
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