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More Coverage of Cadiz Water Project Court Victory

Media coverage of the Cadiz Water Project’s huge Court of Appeals victory is giving Californians from Sacramento to San Diego greater understanding of the Project’s sustainable design and water supply benefits.

Reporters interviewed Cadiz CEO Scott Slater and are quoting him extensively. Here’s a typical report, from the Desert Sun item on the Appeals Court decision

In six rulings, California’s 4th District Court of Appeal upheld earlier decisions backing a state environmental review. Cadiz Inc. praised the rulings, which were issued on Tuesday, as a step toward a project that would pump enough groundwater to supply about 400,000 people.

Cadiz Water Project CEO Scott Slater

“This project has met every test,” said Scott Slater, the Los Angeles-based company’s president and CEO. He said the court decision “validates that we’ve done it the right way.”

Here’s San Bernardino Sun :

“The six Court of Appeal opinions issued today continue an uninterrupted validation of the Cadiz Water Project and its mission to conserve and deliver enough water for 400,000 people without harm to the environment,” said CEO Scott Slater, of Los Angeles-based Cadiz.

“The mountains of evidence, peer review, public agency and judicial scrutiny have all determined that the project is technically and legally sound,” he said.

And here’s the Associated Press item, an article that was picked up by print and broadcast media throughout California:

A California appeals court on Tuesday upheld plans for a large transfer of Mojave Desert groundwater to homes and businesses in Southern California.

The ruling by a three-judge panel in Santa Ana moves urban districts a step closer to getting up to 75,000 acre feet of desert groundwater a year from the Cadiz and Fenner valleys in San Bernardino County — enough to supply about 150,000 homes. The water will be pumped with about 34 new wells and sent on a 43-mile pipeline to the Colorado River aqueduct, which serves 19 million people in Southern California. …

Cadiz Inc., based in Los Angeles, plans to ship an verage of 50,000 acre feet a year for 50 years and up to 75,000 acre feet a year to urban agencies led by the Santa Margarita Water District, which serves homes and businesses in southern Orange County.

“The ruling removes legal uncertainties as we proceed with planning and facility design,” the Santa Margarita Water District said in a statement. …

“We are extremely grateful for the appellate court opinion and its validation of the environmental review and approval of the water project,” said Cadiz’s CEO Scott Slater.

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