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Council proclaims Mono Lake Day, highlights 30-year restoration and water-supply trade-offs
Summary
Councilmembers recognized Mono Lake Day and heard presentations from LADWP and the Mono Lake Committee on 30 years of restoration work, water-rights trade-offs and the lake’s ongoing recovery. Officials emphasized the basin’s ecological gains and warned that losing remaining water rights would increase replacement costs for Angelenos.
The Los Angeles City Council marked Mono Lake Day on Sept. 26 with presentations from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Mono Lake Committee detailing three decades of ecosystem restoration and the trade-offs required to protect the lake while meeting urban water needs.
Councilmember Adrien Nazarian opened remarks by calling Mono Lake’s recovery “one of California’s most significant environmental success stories.” Jaime Valenzuela, manager for Owens Lake and Mono Basin policy and planning at LADWP, summarized the agency’s…
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