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Owens Lake Master Plan

November 2, 2022October 20, 2022 by Vanessa Novinska

Legal and political background In 1913 Los Angeles diverted Owens River from its channel leading to Owens Lake, into an aqueduct leading to Los Angeles. Thus began the drying of Owens Lake. By 1924 the drying was complete and the dried lakebed was becoming a major source of air pollution in the form of blowing … Read more

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