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He said that means bringing the area into attainment with national air quality standards will require additional effects to control the dust sources other than the lakebed.

Over the last three decades, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has been carrying out extensive dust mitigation projects on the dry lakebed at Owens Lake, and has invested about $2.5 billion in the efforts.

With less water running off fields and into the sea, growing stretches of dry lakebed are being exposed to desert winds that kick up lung-damaging dust.

In other areas, thousands of hay bales have been placed in rows on the lakebed to help control dust.

According to Choi’s arrest affidavit, on July 4, 2023, Choi posted a YouTube video showing himself pressing a “fire missiles” button with two women flying in a helicopter over El Mirage Dry Lakebed, causing fireworks to shoot at a Lamborghini sports car on the ground.