Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Sierra Nevada runoff could damage pricy LA infrastructure
There is so much runoff water from the Sierra Nevada that Owens Lake may be flooded. This would ruin hundreds of millions of dollars of infrastructure that Los Angeles has paid for. The good news: The Silver Lake reservoir will be refilled earlier than planned.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThere is so much runoff water from the Sierra Nevada that Owens Lake may be flooded. This would ruin hundreds of millions of dollars of infrastructure that Los Angeles has paid for. The good news: The Silver Lake reservoir will be refilled earlier than planned.
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