Mono Lake Committee interns visit Mill Creek at the Cemetary Road culvert.

Earlier this week, Eastern Sierra Policy Director Lisa Cutting took the Committee’s seasonal staff to the north Mono Basin to learn about the region’s complicated plumbing. They braved rain and sleet to visit Lundy Lake Reservoir, the Lundy power plant, the ditches and waterways that irrigate ranches, and Mill Creek, following the water toward Mono Lake.

On Tuesday afternoon when the group visited Lundy Lake Reservoir, it wasn’t spilling yet, but by Wednesday morning the spillway was full of water and Mill Creek was running at over (more…)

The Bureau of Land Management will lead a public field tour on July 9 to look at areas east of Mono Lake proposed for wind data gathering and possible subsequent wind farm construction.

Public scoping meetings will follow July 11 at 6:30pm in Lee Vining and July 12 at 6:30pm in Benton at their respective community centers. Details: BLM Press Release.

The Mono Lake Committee is gathering information on this proposal, which appears to include a wind farm concept of up to 500 megawatts and 167 towers in size. We will attend the field tour and meetings and report further details here and in the Mono Lake Newsletter.