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Description: Providing some background into the history of 40 Acres and our ongoing water dispute with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) over surface water that flows through our community.
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The purpose of this website is to provide some background into the history of 40 Acres and our ongoing water dispute with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) over surface water that flows through our community. This dispute began in 2001, when LADWP, for the first time in history , began to reduce the amount of water that flowed through our ditches. Up until 2001, dating all the way back to the time when the first drop of water was taken from the Owens Valley by William Mulholland, no empl
"40 Acres" is a term coined to describe a small neighborhood of private property located in the Eastern Sierra about 12 miles outside of the town of Bishop California. The size of the neighborhood is 40 acres, and it is located in Round Valley, where the desert meets the mountains, at the bottom of Sherwin Grade, about 2 miles west of hwy 395. Our neighborhood is bordered by LADWP land on three sides and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land on the west side.
This 40 acre parcel is subdivided into 49 different lots of varying sizes, most of which are owned by families and individuals that live here year round. A ditch system that splits off of Pine Creek delivers water all year round to almost all of the lots, and has for a long time as you will see.
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