Everything about the Owens River totally explained
The
Owens River is a
river in eastern
California in the
United States, approximately long. It drains into an arid
ranching basin, called the
Owens Valley, on the eastern side of the
Sierra Nevada mountains. The site of a long-running chapter of the bitter
California Water Wars, the river drained into
Owens Lake until it was entirely diverted for
irrigation and
drinking water. On December 6, 2006, the City of Los Angeles restored 5% of its post-aqueduct flow, by court order.
Description
The river rises in the Sierra Nevada in southwestern
Mono County, approximately south of
Mono Lake and east of
Yosemite Village. It flows southeast across the
Long Valley Caldera, through
Lake Crowley reservoir, then descends through the
Owens River Gorge, emerging at the north end of the Owens Valley north of
Bishop. In the area around Bishop, it's diverted through many ditches to irrigate the surrounding farming region. It flows south-southeast through the Owens Valley between the Sierra Nevada on the west and the
White and
Inyo mountains on the east, past
Big Pine. Approximately south-southeast of Big Pine, most of the remaining river is diverted into the
Los Angeles Aqueduct, completed in
1913 to supply drinking water to
Los Angeles. The remaining river flows in a trickle through the southern valley, flanked by the Los Angeles Aqueduct, past
Lone Pine, entering the lake bed of now-dry
Owens Lake at the southern end of the valley.
The acquisition of water rights for the Los Angeles Aqueduct under the direction of
William Mulholland was highly controversial and led to violence and sabotage by local residents in the
1920s. The diversion of water and the subsequent
desiccation of Owens Lake remains highly controversial. The re-establishment of the lake has been a long-time goal of the California
environmentalist community.
See the California Water Wars article for a detailed history of the water wars.Further Information
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