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While Villaraigosa is a busy mayor of a very large city, LADWP officials indicate it certainly didn’t take any “arm-twisting” to get the high-profile politician to schedule a visit to the Owens Valley. Not at all,” LADWP Public Relations Manager Chris Plakos said. “In fact, this all originated with a request from the mayor’s office. Having been here for the opening of LORP, Mayor Villaraigosa indicated he wanted to observe some of the enhancements to the Lower Owens River he’d been told about.” According to Plakos, Villaraigosa “specifically wanted a chance to see personally how things have changed during this past year. So, he and a number of his guests will be taking an inspection tour of a section of the Lower Owens River by boat.”
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The Owens Valley fault partitions dextral slip related to the northward penetration of the Eastern California shear zone. Recent geologic and geodetic studies yield conflicting fault slip rate estimates. Holocene vertical offset along the subsidary Lone Pine rupture and a characteristic ratio of vertical to horizontal slip during the 1872 event indicate a maximum dextral slip rate of 2±1 mm/year [Beanland and Clark, 1994]. Only three large Holocene earthquakes, including the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake, are recognized. Paleoseismic studies south of Big Pine [J. Lee, unpublished data] corroborate low slip rates of 1.7±1.0 mm/year and a recurrence interval between 3300±600 to 4000±400 years.
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Costs have soared for the Owens Valley dust-mitigation work, from an estimated $120 million to the $415 million range. The most recent audit found that Barnard Construction Co. Inc. of Bozeman, Mont., was paid to repair faulty pipes and compensated for several change orders when the work was actually part of the original contract.
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The Owens Valley is the type symmetrical graben on earth. In the map above, red lines denote faults. With 14,000 foot peaks on both sides, the trench (which is what "graben" means in German) is two miles deep.
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If one reads and researches the happenings in the Owens Valley, there are many similarities to what is happening here. Strange? ....or is it??? Different names, different agencies, different valley is not acceptable.
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In the end, Mulroy said, invoking Owens Valley is an easy way for pipeline opponents to advance their "not one drop" agenda, but that won't solve anything. Already, she sees "the lines being drawn very sharply in the sand," she said.
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