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WESTERN WATER NEWS
Metropolitan Water District Votes to Finance Nearly $11 Billion of California WaterFix220
Idaho Water Users Association Responds to EPA Clean Water Act Comment Request221
LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS
Two Water-Related Bond Measures Will Be Put to California Voters in
2018223
REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
California Water Commission Announces Final Public Benefit Ratios for Proposed Water Storage Projects225
JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENTS
Federal:
Ninth Circuit Affirms District Court’s Grant of Summary Judgment
Upholding EIS/EIR and Clean Water Act Permit for Newhall Ranch
Project227
Friends of the Santa Clara River v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ___F.3d___, Case No. 15-56337 (9th Cir. Apr. 9, 2018).
District Court Strikes Down Challenge to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act Enforcement of Effluent Limitations228
Clean Water Action v. Pruitt, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 17-0817 (DLF) (D. D.C. Apr. 18, 2018).
District Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Groundwater Contamination Tort Claims in the Face of
Factual Inquiry for Statute of Limitations
Defense230
Hicksville Water Dist. v. Phillips Electronics North American Corp., ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 2:17-CV-04442 (E.D. N.Y. Mar. 29, 2018).
District Court Denies Water Users’ Request for Relief from Injunction Requiring Increased Flows from Klamath Project232
Hoopa Valley Tribe v. Bureau of Reclamation, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 16-cv-4294 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 30, 2018); Yurok Tribe v. Bureau of Reclamation, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 16-cv-6863 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 30, 2018).
District Court finds TMDLs Setting a Minimum Amount of Pollutant to Be Removed From River Do Not Satisfy the Clean Water Act’s Mandate234
Natural Resources Defense Council v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 16-1861 (D. D.C. Mar. 30, 2018).
State:
Colorado Supreme Court Extends Anti-Speculation Doctrine to Designated Groundwater Replacement Plan236
Front Range Resources, LLC v. Colorado Ground Water Commission, et al., 2018 CO 25, ___P.3d___ (Colo. Apr. 9, 2018).
