In what is being called a landmark court decision in Sonoma County, local officials are being ordered to put more thought into issuing permits for new wells.
Three years ago, when the state was in the grips of a sustained drought, there were growing questions about the effects of groundwater pumping on the environment. Now, in what is being called a landmark court decision in Sonoma County , local officials are being ordered to put more thought into issuing permits for new wells.The water is running high in the Russian river for late August, not like a few years ago when there were fears it could stop flowing altogether.
'We got a lot of evidence from fisheries groups that said, you know, we watched a lot of people turn on wells and water disappeared,' McEnhill said. 'And then, if there was still a little water, the water quality degrades to where it's affecting fish health or killing them.'So Russian Riverkeeper and a statewide group called the California Coastkeeper Alliance teamed up to sue Sonoma County over the way it approved new well permits.
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