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Litigation

Mar. 8, 2014

Court orders water officials to look at impacts of groundwater bank

The state Department of Water Resources violated CEQA by failing to look at how the Kern Water Bank could harm the environment, a Sacramento judge ruled.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


State officials failed to look at how the operation of the country's largest groundwater bank could be harming the environment, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge has ruled.


The state Department of Water Resources violated the California Environmental Quality Act and must look at the effects of its decision to turn over the southern San Joaquin County Kern Water Bank to local water suppliers...

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