Water bottler Blue Triton Brands, which insists the the agency action “has no legal merit,” countered with a federal lawsuit this week.
A stainless steel pipeline carries water down through the San Bernardino National Forest on Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. The water is flowed into a collection point and bottled as Blue Triton Brands Arrowhead spring water brand. The company that sells Arrowhead bottled water has been denied a permit by the U.S. Forest Service to continue its nearly century-old practice of drawing water from the San Bernardino Mountains.
Nobles said the company’s failure to provide requested information in its permit application, particularly concerning the use of water being taken from forest lands, left the federal agency with no alternative but to deny the application. In a statement, a spokesperson for Blue Triton said the permit denial “has no legal merit, is unsupported by the facts, and negatively impacts the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, who rely on our renewable and sustainable water operations in Strawberry Canyon for water use and fire suppression needs.”
Officials with the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians declined to comment Thursday, Aug. 8, saying the tribe is not part of Blue Triton’s permit application process nor the Forest Service’s denial of the application. “These studies prove that our careful stewardship of the water and land for over 100 years has not negatively affected the Strawberry Canyon environment. Credible evidence to the contrary has never been presented.”
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