Judges said the water rights for irrigation in the area belong to Los Angeles
A state appellate court has reversed a judge’s ruling that would have required the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to conduct an environmental review before making annual decisions about deliveries of water on pastureland it owns east of Yosemite.had “set an impossible standard” as it faces the complex challenges of servicing ratepayers and meeting environmental requirements in a time of drought, dwindling snowpack and changing water availability.
“Every year, LADWP takes great care to responsibly adapt its water operations, to respond to changes in weather, environmental demands, storage capacity, annual runoff, water supply, needs of customers and more,” he said. The plaintiffs accused the agency of trying to implement the new water policies while 2010 leases were still in effect and before it had studied their impacts on habitat and ranching operations, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act.
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