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To visit Owens Lake today is to wander through a flat playa filled with quietly beeping, purring, and at times, moving, sensors. In order to watch a landscape the size of the San Fernando Valley with just 60 human workers (that we know about), and keep mitigation in compliance with the EPA lawsuit, the LADWP dust control operation relies on an almost incomprehensible network of automated sensors and monitors.
Dust control is partly preemptive, and partly reactive, so the LADWP staff need to know as much as they can about conditions on the lakebed at all times. Some of this is a data collection task, some is a data storage task, and some is an endless maintenance task.
None of which are helped by a never-ending stream of rumors and speculation about deeper conspiracies and purposes of this relentless army of sensors and data collection. Can this all really be about dust control? And if it is, is there a point at which we collect more data than we know what to do with? When we have data points on so many things that our data inherently lacks hierarchy or order, do we actually know anything at all?
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