Green grass with fluffy seed heads lines the shore of a lake, tufa formations are in the water offshore.

Tag: Mono Lake's level

DWP exporting water away from the Mono Basin

Water that should be flowing to Mono Lake began leaving the Mono Basin and flowing instead toward Los Angeles on June 17 when the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) began exporting stream diversions into the Los Angeles…

Will LA take more Mono Lake water?

Mono Lake Committee and diverse LA coalition call on Mayor Bass to not increase water exports this year Last year was notably wet, raising Mono Lake five feet—and creating a conundrum. Under rules written three decades ago, the lake’s rise…

Windblown dust on the north shore of Mono Lake in the distance, the town of Lee Vining is in the foreground.

Mono Lake not rising on schedule

Low lake vulnerable to drought & climate change; rule changes needed to accomplish lake protection On a warm fall day in 1994, I walked into the state capitol building alongside a crowd of Mono Lake advocates. We assembled in a…