Environmental
Apr. 15, 2014
Lawsuit over the Scott River sparks debate over groundwater regulation
A fight over dwindling flows in Northern California's Scott River is raising the question of how much power the state has to limit water pumping that leaves fish high and dry.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A fight over dwindling flows in Northern California's Scott River is raising the question of how much power the state has to limit water pumping that leaves fish high and dry. In the case, environmentalists are pushing regulators to invoke the powerful but rarely used public trust doctrine to ensure that the Scott, a tributary of the Klamath River, can sustain salmon and other fish species.
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