Owens Lake

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This is a historical presentation of mining in and around Owens Lake.

Owens Lake was given its present name by the explorer John C. Frémont, in honor of one of his guides, Richard Owens.
Starting in 1913, the river and streams that fed Owens Lake were diverted by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) into the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and the lake level started to drop quickly. As the lake dried, soda processing at nearby Keeler, California, switched from relatively cheap chemical methods to more expensive physical ones.

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