A sign warning of Blowing Dust has been vandalized near the small community of Keeler, which sits on the northwest side of the dry lakebed of Owens Lake in Inyo County, Calif. on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.

Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, looks at an area of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program that has been converted to grabel on the dry lakebed in Inyo County, Calif. while giving journalists a tour on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Gravel is one of the “best available control measures” used to mitigate dust that would otherwise be kicked up from the dry lakebed.

An area that has been converted to tillage as part of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program is pictured on the dry lakebed in Inyo County, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Tillage is one of the “best available control measures” used to mitigate dust that would otherwise be kicked up from the dry lakebed.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power vehicles are seen as a project site where a new valve is being installed as part of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program on the dry lakebed in Inyo County, Calif. on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.

Chris Langley, 78, becomes animated while showing journalists an area of dry playa near Owens Lake and his home in Lone Pine, Calif. on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.

Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, looks at a managed vegetation area of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program on the dry lakebed in Inyo County, Calif. while giving journalists a tour on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Managed vegetation is one of the “best available control measures” used to mitigate dust that would otherwise be kicked up from the dry lakebed.

Paul Liu, manager of the Owens Lake Dust MItigation Program for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, talks to journalists in front of a part of the area that holds some water for dust control in Inyo County, Calif. on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.

Mono Lake in Mono County, Calif. is pictured on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022.

Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, pilots his car ahead of Geoffrey McQuilkin, executive director of the Mono Lake Committee, while they take journalists to see an air quality monitoring site on the north shore of Mono Lake in Mono County, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, shows journalists an air quality monitoring site on the north shore of Mono Lake in Mono County, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

Sand dunes overtake equipment that is part of an air quality monitoring site on the north shore of Mono Lake in Mono County, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

Mike Prather, 75, who has lived near Owens Lake since 1980, sits for a photograph in his home in Alabama Hills, an unincorporated area just outside Lone Pine, Calif. on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.

The yard of Nancy and Mike Prather looks toward Owens Lake in Alabama Hills, an unincorporated area just outside Lone Pine, Calif. on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.

A sign alerts visitors that the land around it is owned by the City of Los Angeles near Lee Vining, Calif., hundreds of miles from the metropolis, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

A sign, which indicates the historic water level of Mono Lake in 1941 before water diversions by Los Angeles first began, is pictured at Mono Lake Park near Lee Vining, Calif. on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022.

Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, 67, the tribal historic preservation officer for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation, poses for a photo at her home on the reservation near Lone Pine, Calif. on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.

One of Mono Lake’s iconic tufa formations is pictured on the south shore of the lake in Mono County, Calif. on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022.

A California gull sweeps the surface of Mono Lake near Lee Vining, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

Geoffrey McQuilkin, executive director of the Mono Lake Committee, poses for a photo at the gates that are used to divert water from Lee Vining Creek to serve Los Angeles on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, shows journalists a tube that collects fine particulate, one measure of how much is being blown around in the wind, at an air quality monitoring site on the north shore of Mono Lake in Mono County, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

Geoffrey McQuilkin, executive director of the Mono Lake Committee, and Phill Kiddoo, air pollution control officer for the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, take journalists on a tour of the north shore of Mono Lake in Mono County, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

The sun sets over some of Mono Lake’s iconic tufa structures on the south shore of the lake in Mono County, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

The Owens River flows south toward the headgates of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which allows some water to travel downstream, left, and diverts the rest of the flow to service the massive municipality via the aqueduct, right, in Inyo County, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022.

Arrash Agahi, who oversees regulatory compliance of Owens Lake for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, looks at an area of the lakebed that has been converted to a brine pool to reduce blowing dust while giving journalists a tour of the project area on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.

The Los Angeles Aqueduct skirts the Eastern Sierra near Lone Pine, Calif. on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.

The small community of Keeler is pictured with the dry lakebed of Owens Lake in the background in Inyo County, Calif. on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.

The rising sun reflects off water pooled in the Owens Dry Lakebed in Inyo County, Calif. on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.