Spending millions of ratepayer dollars to undermine State Water Board decision The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) is preparing to fight at the future hearing before the California State Water Resources Control Board. While the date has…
Update: Your calls made an impact! On June 24, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the provision to sell off millions of acres of public land in the budget reconciliation bill must be taken out. Thank you Mono Lake Committee members…
Mono Basin and Eastern Sierra’s vast public lands lose federal employees and essential services Earlier this year the Trump Administration slashed staffing of federal agencies, including those that manage federal lands around the country and in California and the Eastern…
Continuing DWP water diversions and decades of low lake levels causing harm For centuries California Gulls have migrated east across the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada to nest at Mono Lake. Their graceful, raucous, and quirky presence is a distinct…
Last Thursday, May 22 a wildfire started along Highway 395 near Mono Lake. Named the Inn Fire, it began at approximately 3:36pm and spread rapidly on both sides of the highway. Local Lee Vining and Mono City Volunteer Fire Departments…
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)…
After a historic hearing in spring 2024 to consider Tribal and public testimony related to the proposed designation of Tribal Beneficial Uses (TBU) for Mono Lake and its tributary streams, action to designate has been delayed. The Lahontan Regional Water…
In April, an historic designation of Tribal Beneficial Uses for Mono Lake and its tributary streams moved forward. In a hearing to receive comments on the draft Mono Basin Tribal Beneficial Uses Basin Plan Amendment and environmental documentation, the Lahontan…
Action alert The Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (Lahontan) is advancing the Mono Basin Tribal Beneficial Uses Designation Project. This designation will recognize the important uses of Mono Lake and its tributary streams by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial. …
