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Environmental

Oct. 30, 2014

State looking to speed groundwater lawsuits

On the heels of historic legislation to control groundwater pumping, officials are looking at ways to improve lengthy and expensive court adjudications.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


There is a joke among lawyers that working on one groundwater adjudication can make your career. The laborious court process settles fights over rights to the state's increasingly overtapped aquifers and sets out long-term management plans for them. And while they are crucial to resolving water rights disputes, getting there is not easy.


Case in point is an adjudication of the Antelo...

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