Best Best & Krieger LLP attorneys Michelle Ouellette, Sarah Owsowitz and Jennifer Lynch, representing Santa Margarita Water District, successfully beat CEQA challenges to a proposed public-private partnership project to pump fresh groundwater. Landowner Cadiz, Inc. and the District want to prevent the waste of the water in a Mojave Desert aquifer, which would evaporate if left, and transfer it to water customers throughout Southern California.
The Fourth District Court of Appeal’s opinion, issued Tuesday, was reported on in the following:
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