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Water-bottling plant a source of concern

John Hawk fills a jug with drinking water during his weekly visit to Big Springs, in Mount Shasta.

John Hawk fills a jug with drinking water during his weekly visit to Big Springs, in Mount Shasta.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

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Those who live around the Crystal Geyser plant outside the city of Mount Shasta are worried about the environment and the use of water during a time of drought.

Shasta Lake

The barren shoreline of Shasta Lake shows the steady drop in the water level.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Snow's impact

A bent tree trunk in the forest near Mount Shasta shows evidence of the weight of heavy snowfall in past years.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Ski park

Community activist Roslyn McCoy visits the barren slopes of Mount Shasta Board and Ski Park.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Water woes

Joyce Kyle and husband Chester breakfast at Mount Shasta Pastry. They sold off their cattle and stopped renting pastures after the county cut off access to a ditch and reservoir system that delivered water from Mt. Shasta.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Gathering data

Activist Raven Stevens lowers a sensor into a neighborhood well. The data will help her gauge how much Crystal Geyser’s future pumping lowers the level of the surrounding water table.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Tribal concerns

Luisa Navejas of the Winnemem Wintu tribe and her husband, Mark Miyoshi, hold a bottle of water from their home well at the base of Mt. Shasta.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Worried about the future

Bruce Hillman is a critic of the Crystal Geyser plant.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

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