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Water district considers suing Department of Water Resources

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on May 29, 2008 at 6:16 am

From the Highland Community News:

The San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District (Muni) may be going to court against the Department of Water Resources, its source for state imported water from central California. The Muni Board of Directors voted May 21 to conduct a workshop, inviting attorneys to discuss the possibility.

Board President Patrick Milligan said although “we have gotten some good things and had some great dealings with the Department of Water Resources, that’s not always the experience.” He cited charges against state water contractors, like Muni, which were questionable. “They put things in that they knew had no bearing whatsoever on the items that we could be charged for,” Milligan said, calling the DWR practices “almost dishonest in their relationship with the contractors that they supposedly represented.”

Milligan said, “The whole state is oblivious to all these conservation lawsuits that have wound up against the State Water Project, and they are going to just decimate that project in the next four or five years if everybody sits by and treats it like we have treated the Delta smelt.”

Read the full text of this article from the Highland Community News by clicking here.

May 29, 2008 · Filed Under DWR & State Water Project, Other Water Agencies

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