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A passing construction truck kicks up dust along the Owens Dry Lake. In 1913 the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power diverted the Owens River to provide drinking water for the rapidly growing metropolis. Ten years later the Owens Lake had completely evaporated, along with any hope of heavy development in the region. Now DW&P is entering the tenth year of a dust mitigation project on the lake, part of a lawsuit settlement between the utility and the residents of the valley, whose health was being damaged by particles blown off the lake by the constant winds.

Dust kicked up by a passing construction truck along the Owens Dry Lake. August 5, 2009.

Unemployed farm workers Gonzalez Victorian and Federico Analla. Fresno County, CA.

Saturday, August 15th, 2009 at 7:38 pm