When the dust settles. Owens Lake pemediation project
Description
An excellent example of governmental and community cooperation in the face of long-standing legal enmity, this program explains how the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are working to eliminate hazardous concentrations of airborne dust from the Owens Lake lakebed-drained nearly dry to supply L.A. with water. The biggest remediation project of its kind in U.S. history, the Owens Lake initiative is using managed vegetation and shallow flooding to stabilize the region and bring its sky-high levels of air pollution back down to earth.
Runtime
29 min
Subjects
- Ecosystem management (128)
- Climatic changes (510)
- Refuse and refuse disposal (122)
- Conservation of natural resources (540)
- Water (318)
- Toxicology (87)
- Air pollution (33)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c2003
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