Litigation
Jul. 19, 2014
Counties must protect waterways harmed by groundwater pumping, court rules
In a win for environmentalists, a Sacramento superior court judge has extended the reach of the powerful but rarely used public trust doctrine.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A Sacramento County judge stepped into the raging debate over groundwater regulation in California this week, issuing an unprecedented ruling that counties must protect rivers from being depleted by the rampant pumping of nearby aquifers. Invoking the rarely used but powerful public trust doctrine, Superior Court Judge Allen H. Sumner concluded that officials must consider how groundwater extraction could harm w...
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