United States v. State Water Resources Control Board

Caution

182 Cal. App. 3d 82·1986 Cal. App. LEXIS 1694·227 Cal. Rptr. 161

Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMay 28, 1986Docket Nos. A027690, A030014California24,620 words

Opinion

Racanelli, J.

This appeal raises a number of novel and complex questions concerning the interrelationship of the law of water quality and the law of water rights. The coordinated cases arise out of efforts by the State Water Resources Control Board (the Board) to set new water quality standards for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) in order to take account of the combined effects upon the Delta of the state’s two massive water projects: the Central Valley Project (CVP) and the State Water Project (SWP), operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (U.S. Bureau or Bureau) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), respectively.

The Delta serves as a conduit for the transfer of water by the statewide water projects. Both the CVP and the SWP divert water from the rivers that flow into the Delta and store the water in reservoirs. Quantities of this stored water are periodically released into the Delta. Pumps situated at the southern edge of the Delta eventually lift the water into canals for transport south to the farmers of the Central Valley and the municipalities of Southern California. Water which is neither stored nor exported south passes through the Delta where it…

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Parties

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Plaintiff
STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD
Defendant

Judges

Racanelli

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