Caretaking History: Living In A Real Ghost Town
One Crazy Experience, No Boo Sheet
That was the day the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared that a risk to health was carried in the harsh mix of fine-grained salt, clay and sulfates that are swept off the lake bed when winds whip through the Owens Valley, a gash of high desert between the Sierra Nevada and the White and Inyo mountains.The dust can be caustic, can cause bloody noses, watery eyes and irritated lungs, in part because of mining chemicals dumped on the lake bed, according to local doctors and environmental studies.The worst risk comes from the extremely small size of the dust particles. Smaller than 10 microns in diameter, the particles penetrate farther into the lungs than ordinary dust and become embedded, the EPA says. (A human hair is 100 to 200 microns thick.)
Los Angeles claims the program could cost $1.5 billion – “the most expensive dust control program in the entire nation, and likely the world.” The city asks the Superior Court to order the State Air Resources Board to conduct an independent hearing to review Great Basin’s 2011 Supplemental Control Requirements Decision. State Air Resources Board Executive Officer James Goldstene is also named as a defendant. “This action arises out of a long running dispute between LADWP [Los Angeles Department of Water and Power] and Great Basin over the City’s lawful transport of water from the Owens Valley to the City’s 4 million people through the Los Angeles Aqueduct,” the complaint states.
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Any idea what the new owners plans are? Investors usually want a return on their investment...
From what I hear they plan on restoring the town and making it a tourist destination as well as an executive retreat.
What a unique and amazing experience! Thank you for sharing so thoroughly.
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Thank You!!
What an experience! Whas is just you during that year?
No the full time caretaker came back after about 2 months and i worked with him the rest of my stay.
Nice to see people from the Inland Empire on SteemIt.
This was a fun read. I look forward to reading more of your adventures.
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I just read this news report on the sale: https://www.10news.com/news/national/cerro-gordo-california-ghost-town-sells