One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct

One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct November 5 will be one hundred years since the opening of the LA Aqueduct. This commemorative action reconnects us with the water source that sustains us.

On the centenary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio will perform "One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct," a commemorative artist action to connect Los Angeles to its water source. This performative parade of 100 mules will traverse the 240 miles of pipelines and canals that bring water from the Eastern Sierras through a gravity-fed system t

o Los Angeles, passing through three counties and nearly 50 communities along the way. Mule power shaped the modern West and was a primary force in constructing the aqueduct, an engineering feat that took only seven years to complete despite the rough terrain. The parade will take nearly a month, with public events planned in Bishop, Manzanar, the Owens Dry Lake Bed, Pine Canyon, Neenach, The Cascades, Hansen Dam, and Griffith Park. It will culminate in a Veterans Day Parade down Western Avenue in Glendale to welcome the mules into the City of Los Angeles on November 11, 2013, followed by a ceremony at the Equidome to celebrate our country’s equine labor force—the mule. This commemorative action is a prelude to "Bending the Los Angeles River Back into the City," a work that will pierce the concrete jacket of the Los Angeles River and use a sixty- foot waterwheel to reconnect the land to the river that originally supplied all the city’s water. "One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct" is an action with a resolution to move forward into the next hundred years with renewed appreciation for this vital re- source: Let it be resolved that the citizens of Los Angeles will do better at utilizing this life-giving resource in the next one hundred years! This action is coordinated with the support of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) that has itself been working to make a new century of water delivery happen.

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Please attend this Friday’s Inyo-LA Standing Committee Meeting to show dissent for LADWP’s water grabs against Payahuuna...
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It’s important to get as many folks from Los Angeles as possible to make public comments that will be read by the Clerk towards the end of the meeting. They need to be 250 words or less in order to be read aloud, but all comments will be part of the record, regardless of length. This is our time to speak up! Even if you don’t want to make a public comment, just being present on Zoom will make a huge difference.

Inyo-LA Standing Committee Meeting
FRIDAY MAY 15 at 10 AM (PST)
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much of the water supply that we discussed in our community meeting five years ago originated, once upon the time, as snow that fell onto the Sierra. what would have been a spreading ground was sacrificed so that the city of LA could benefit. Metabolic studio has been actively pursuing a reciprocal benefit for Lauren Bon's private water right, 29134, which she obtained so that she could give away water harvested from what is now a waste water river, The LA River. One Hundred Mules walking the LA Aqueduct was part of that effort. it aloud as to survey the 240 mile aqueduct and get to know that labor force that maintains it and some of the communities that are adjacent to it and thereby part of our constructed metropolitan watershed.

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