We Advocate Through Environmental Review v. City of Mt. Shasta

Filed 4/12/22; Certified for Publication 5/11/22 (order attached)

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(Siskiyou) ----

WE ADVOCATE THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL C091012 REVIEW et al., (Super. Ct. No. Plaintiffs and Appellants, SCCVPT20180531)

v.

CITY OF MOUNT SHASTA et al.,

Defendants and Respondents;

CRYSTAL GEYSER WATER COMPANY,

Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

From 2001 to 2010, a water bottling company operated a plant in Siskiyou County (the County) that extracted groundwater and then used it to produce bottled water. A few years after the plant closed, Crystal Geyser Water Company (Crystal Geyser) bought the facility and sought to revive it. To that end, Crystal Geyser requested, among other

1 things, a permit from the County to build a caretaker’s residence for the bottling plant and a permit from the City of Mt. Shasta (the City) to allow the plant to discharge wastewater into the City’s sewer system. Both the County and the City ultimately granted Crystal Geyser the permits it sought. This appeal concerns one of two lawsuits challenging these approvals, both of…