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Dust is kicked up by a passing construction truck on 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 development in the region. Now DW&P is entering the tenth year of a dust mitigation project on the lake, part of a mediated 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. August 5, 2009.
