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

Unemployed farm workers Gonzalez Victorian and Federico Analla. Fresno County, CA. May 25, 2009.

Colonia Los Laureles, population approximately 80,000, is a shantytown settlement of mostly factory workers in the steep canyons along the US Border near Tijuana. During winter months, rain washes sediment and trash downhill into the United States and the Pacific Ocean.
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.

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 2:25 pm