State highway skirting the shoreline of Mono Lake, 80 miles north of Bishop, deep in the crater of an extinct Sierra volcano. Mayor Porter has recommended a $40,000,000 program for adding to the city's water supply. This included the purchase of water rights in Mono Basin owned by the Southern Sierras Power Co., and diverting the water through a tunnel to the Owens River. The water would have to be gathered into a conduit before it reaches Mono Lake, which is alkaline and undrinkable. Mono Lake is a body of water without an outlet, into which a number of mountain streams now empty themselves. Photo date: June 25, 1930.
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