Mono Valley
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Mono Valley
- Basin Number
- 6-009
- SGMA Basin Priority
- Very Low
- Critically Overdrafted
- No
- Hydrologic Region Name
- South Lahontan
- Counties
- Mono
- Adjacent Basins
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At-A-Glance

California Water Library Documents About This Basin
Mono Basin Runoff Year 2025-26 Annual Operations Plan
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) | May 16th, 2025
The purpose of the AOP is to describe how operations will commence for the current year-type to accomplish exports and stream releases in accordance with the Licenses. Th
Large closed-basin lakes sustainably supplied phosphate during the origins of life
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | February 19th, 2025
The origin of life on Earth required a supply of phosphorus (P) for the synthesis of universal biomolecules. Closed lakes may have accumulated high P concentrations on ea
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power response to Mono Lake Committee Request for a Drought Emergency Regulation
California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) | January 11th, 2023
Mono Lake: background, Decision 1631, current conditions, ongoing developments
California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) | January 1st, 2023
Petition for 2023 Drought Emergency Regulation or Other Emergency Action to Protect Nesting Birds, Water Quality, and other Public Trust Resources at Mono Lake
Mono Lake Committee | December 16th, 2022
Mono Lake Committee request for an emergency action to protect Mono Lake and its public trust resources
California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) | December 16th, 2022
Reconstructing the Mediaeval low stands of Mono Lake, Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Holocene (Sage Journals) | December 1st, 2019
Palaeosimulations of Mono Lake covering the past 2 kyr have been conducted using a water balance model forced with tree-ring derived inflow estimates. The results show tw
Hydraulic, Geochemical, and Thermal Monitoring of an Aquifer System in the Vicinity of Mammoth Lakes, Mono County, California, 2015–17
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | June 27th, 2019
Since 2014, the U.S. Geological Survey has been working in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management, Mono County, Ormat Technologies, Inc., and the Mammoth Communit
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 2018 Annual Owens Valley Report
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) | December 1st, 2017
This report includes Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) proposed Owens Valley Operations Plan for the 2018-2019 Runoff Year, an update on Owens Valley
California Water Plan 2013: North Lahontan Hydrologic Region
California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | October 30th, 2016
The North Lahontan Hydrologic Region (North Lahontan region) includes part of the western edge of the Great Basin, a large landlocked area that covers most of Nevada and
Extreme hydrological changes in the southwestern US drive reductions in water supply to Southern California by mid century
Environmental Research Letters (IOP) | September 21st, 2016
The Southwestern United States has a greater vulnerability to climate change impacts on water security due to a reliance on snowmelt driven imported water. The State of C
Measuring Cost-Effectiveness of Environmental Water Transactions
Klamath Riverkeeper | August 4th, 2016
The diversion, storage and consumptive use of water in the western United States (US) has drastically altered streamflow, water quality and a raft of ecological, social a
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 2016 Annual Owens Valley Report
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) | December 1st, 2015
This report includes Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) proposed Owens Valley operations plan for the first six months of the 2016-17 runoff year, an u
California Water Plan Update 2013: South Lahontan Hydrologic Region Report
California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | October 30th, 2014
Several of California’s well-known natural resources are located in the South Lahontan Hydrologic Region. They include Mono Lake, Death Valley, the Owens Valley, and th
Effective Implementation of the Public Trust Doctrine in California Water Resources Decision-Making: A View From the Bench
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | April 12th, 2012
Forty years ago, in his seminal law review article on the public trust doctrine, Professor Joseph L. Sax suggested that “citizens seeking to develop a comprehen
The Alkaline and Boracic Lakes of California
Scientific American | July 7th, 1877
Immediately east of the range of the Sierra Nevada is an extensive region of alkaline lakes and hot springs, of which very large areas are almost totally barren, the onl