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Court ruling may undermine pact on Colorado River

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on December 22, 2009 at 2:43 pm

From the California Farm Bureau Federation:

“A court case threatens the hard-won 2003 agreement over how to divide water from the Colorado River among the seven states that count on the river for water supplies. At issue in Sacramento County Superior Court is whether the contract contains an unconstitutional “blank check” for the state that obligates it to cover restoration costs for the Salton Sea.

Under the historic Quantification Settlement Agreement, a compact that includes 13 separate contracts, California agreed to live within its 4.4 million acre-foot water right to the Colorado River, and the Imperial Irrigation District agreed that farmers would fallow some land and transfer farm water to the San Diego County Water Authority for urban uses, the largest such water transfer in U.S. history.

A number of lawsuits filed by one group of Imperial Valley farmers, by local government agencies and by environmentalists were combined into a single case. That case now addresses all of the claims in the lawsuits and seeks to validate the QSA contracts. … “

Read more from the California Farm Bureau Federation by clicking here.

December 22, 2009 · Filed Under Imperial Irrigation District & Imperial Valley

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