SALT POND MOUNTAIN — Travel writers, reporters and visitors may find Mountain Lake’s drain-and-fill cycles perplexing. Some may even, as they did this summer, dub it a “mystery.” ...

The Mountain Pure project, spearheaded by California-based developer Sidewinder, aims to extract millions of gallons per day of groundwater from a well near a natural spring known as Lake Louise.

(KABC) -- Although the calendar says it's spring, in Big Bear Lake, it's still rather cold. But despite the cooler temperatures, the lake officially reopened Tuesday, signifying the mountain ...