CALIFORNIA WATER NEWS
Lookout Slough Restoration Project Moves Ahead69
El Dorado Irrigation District Approves New Capital Improvement Plan Considering $225 Million in Improvements70
LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS
Governor Newsom Signs Bill Granting CEQA Exemption for Disadvantaged Water System Projects72
REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Sacramento River Contractors Coordinate and Delay Water Diversions to Benefit Chinook Salmon74
California State Water Resources Control Board Grants Petition for Statutory Adjudication of Fresno River Watershed75
California Water Commission to Assess State’s Role in Funding Water Conveyance Projects77
LAWSUITS FILED OR PENDING
Answers Due in Department of Water Resource’s Validation Action Related to Delta Conveyance Facilities79
RECENT FEDERAL DECISIONS
District Court:
District Court Orders EPA to Provide More Frequent Status Reports on Development of Anacostia River Clean Water Act TMDL81
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 16-1861(JDB) (D. D.C. 2020).
District Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Clean Water Act Citizen Suit—Finds Sufficient Pleading of Continuing or Intermittent Violations82
Okanogan Highlands Alliance, et al. v. Crown Resources Corporation, et al., ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 2:20-CV-147-RMP (E.D. Wash. Oct. 5, 2020).
District Court Reverses EPA’s Narrow Jurisdictional Delineation by Applying Contemporary Judicial Scope of the Clean Water Act Jurisdiction84
San Francisco Baykeeper et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 3:19-cv-05941-WHA (N.D. Cal. 2020).
RECENT STATE DECISIONS
California Court of Appeal Reverses Dismissal of Rate Structure Challenge under Proposition 218 for Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies86
Lucinda Malott v. Summerland Sanitary District, ___Cal.App.5th___, Case No. B298730 (2nd Dist. Oct. 19, 2020).
