Last week, the California Assembly passed comprehensive groundwater legislation that buttresses the authority of local agencies to manage groundwater in California (AB 1739; SB 1168, SB1319.) For more than a century, fragmented authority shared among a myriad of local agencies and an absence of coherent...
LOS ANGELES – Today Cadiz Inc. ( “Cadiz”, the “Company”) is pleased to report that it has executed a Letter of Intent with Lake Arrowhead Community Services District (LACSD), a California water retailer, for the reservation of 3,000 acre-feet per year from the Cadiz Valley...
Rulings Confirm Sweeping Victory for Project August 21, 2014 – Today, Orange County Superior Court Judge Gail Andler issued final Statements of Decision (“SOD”) in the six outstanding California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) challenges to the approvals of the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project...
On August 13, 2014, the California Legislature successfully collaborated with Governor Jerry Brown to place a $7.5 billion water bond on the California ballot for voter approval in November. The new bond provides funding for various water supply development initiatives and could spur new opportunities...
Cadiz Project Furthers a Railroad Purpose as Required by new IM Los Angeles -- Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a long awaited Instruction Memorandum (IM) to its Field Offices regarding the “Evaluation and Approval of Activities within Railroad Rights-of-Way Granted under the General Railroad...
By GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Throughout California's desperately dry Central Valley, those with water to spare are cashing in. As a third parched summer forces farmers to fallow fields and lay off workers, two water districts and a pair of landowners in the heart of...
Agencies Gamble on Need and Price Santa Barbara Independent, By Nick Welsh March 26, 2014 About two weeks ago, three South Coast water agencies — desperate to augment supplies in the face of a withering drought — combined forces to place a bid on surplus State Water from purveyors...
