[CPEO-MEF] perchlorate left out of Santa Clarita water plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Court Voids SCV?s Water Plan


Leon Worden 
The Signal (Santa Clarita Valley, CA)
September 23, 2004


Local environmental activists won a major victory Wednesday when an
appellate court invalidated the valley's Urban Water Management Plan.

The court found that the local water agencies failed to provide adequate
information about perchlorate contamination in the groundwater supply
when they adopted the plan in 2000.

The plan, required by state law every five years, was compiled by the
Castaic Lake Water Agency and ratified by the area's four water
retailers. The plan forecasts water availability over a five-year period
and the information is used by the city and county in their development
approval decisions.

The Sierra Club, Friends of the Santa Clara River and the county of
Ventura sued the water agencies over the plan, alleging that it was too
optimistic in its projections of water availability. Ventura County
withdrew from the lawsuit after a Superior Court judge upheld the water
plan in February 2003, but the other plaintiffs appealed.

It was the first time in California that an Urban Water Management Plan
had been challenged in court. 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.the-signal.com/News/ViewStory.asp?storyID=5404

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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