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Don Barrett (aka DBs travels) club

Posted: 15 May 2016

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Mono Lake - West Portal Monument (#0477)

Mono Lake - West Portal Monument (#0477)
Unmarked from US 395 is an excellent BLM viewpoint with a short nature trail, views of Mono Lake and the mountains, and this plaque to the town of West Portal which existed for only a few years while LADWP built the system to take water from Mono Lake.
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 slgwv
slgwv club
And now, with the recent court decision, L.A. can't use this aqueduct extension at capacity anyway!
8 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv club
I thought that decision was quite some time back. I remember that the first time I visited Mono Lake, which was some time in the 80's, there was already reduced taking from the stream that fed the lake.
8 years ago.
slgwv club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
I think the decision that the level of Mono Lake had to be restored to some previous level dates from the late 90s, and it was based on the Endangered Species Act (and had wended its way thru the courts for some time!) A colleague of mine was very involved with the Mono Lake committee, but I may well be misremembering some details.
8 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv club
There's been so many iterations of the decisions regarding LADWP and flow from the Eastern Sierras that it's hard to place clear dates on many of them.
8 years ago.

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