State Court Upholds Environment Review For Mohave Groundwater Mining Project

摘要

A California Superior Court in Orange County on May 1 rejected lawsuits seeking to derail a plan to pump groundwater from a Mojave Desert aquifer and sell the water to Southern California water agencies (Delaware Tetra Technologies Inc. v. County of San Bernardino, Cal. Super. Ct., No. 30-2013-00636391, 5/1/14). In a preliminary decision, the court denied six petitions challenging decisions by San Bernardino County and the Santa Margarita Water District approving the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage project. The court also upheld the project's environmental review and groundwater management plan.