BRIEFLY BOARD APPROVES OWENS RIVER DEAL.The board that oversees the Los Angeles muncipal water system Wednesday signaled its support for a deal to end more than 30 years of litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. by restoring part of the Owens River drained by a city aqueduct. The board of the Department of Water and Power ordered department lawyers to proceed with an agreement with environmentalists, state agencies and Inyo County to restore a 62-mile stretch of the Owens River. The Lower Owens River Project will return water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct This article has multiple issues: * It needs to be expanded. Please help [ improve the article] or discuss these issues on the talk page. to the Owens River, creating wetlands habitat for waterfowl and shore birds, DWP officials said. The agreement is supposed to end more than 30 years of litigation over the DWP's construction of the second Los Angeles Aqueduct, which Inyo County claimed had caused environmental damage by draining groundwater. - Daily News DWP worker hurt in car crash RESEDA - A chain reaction crash caused a motorist to drive into a construction zone and into a truck early Wednesday, seriously injuring a Department of Water and Power worker, police said. The unidentified victim was hit at 8:30 a.m. in the 19500 block of Sherman Way. Police said an unidentified driver was hit as she traveled west on Sherman Way and lost control of her vehicle, said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Detective Billy Bustos, of the Valley Traffic Division. The DWP worker was transported to a local hospital where he was listed in serious to critical condition. - Daily News Cops seek Sylmar robbery suspects SYLMAR - Police are looking for two masked armed gunmen who ordered customers to lay on the ground while they robbed two stores in Sylmar, officials said Wednesday. One robbery occurred last Friday and the other occurred on Nov. 21, Los Angeles police Officer Jason Lee said. The robbers were described as black, about 5 feet 10 inches tall to 6 feet tall, 170 to 180 pounds, and in their early 20s, Lee said. - City News Service Foundation funds telescope project PASADENA - The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, private philanthropic organization established in 2000 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corp., and his wife Betty. The foundation funds projects in science and environmental conservation as well as programs in and around San has awarded $17.5 million to the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). for collaboration with the California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, Calif.; originally for men, became coeducational in 1970; founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic Institute; called Throop College of Technology, 1913–20. on a project intended to build the world's most powerful telescope. Coupled with an award by the foundation to Caltech for the same amount, a total of $35 million is now available for the two institutions to collaborate on this project to build the Thirty Meter Telescope The Thirty meter telescope (TMT) (formerly called the California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)) is a future large segmented-mirror optical and infrared extremely large telescope, proposed and run by a consortium made up by Caltech, the University of California, and ACURA. (TMT TMT 1 Tarsometatarsal 2 Thermomechanical treatment 3 Treatment, see there ). Their next step will be to work together to create detailed design plans for the telescope. - Daily News |
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