UNITED STATES v. STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BD.

Docket Nos. A027690, A030014.

182 Cal.App.3d 82 (1986)

227 Cal. Rptr. 161

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD, Defendant and Appellant; DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES et al., Interveners and Appellants. [And seven other cases.]

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

May 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

F. Henry Habicht II, Assistant Attorney General, Donald B. Ayer and Peter A. Nowinski, United States Attorneys, Sandra K. Dunn, Thomas H. Pacheco, Robert L. Klarquist, David E. Lindgren, William Devine, Kenneth A. Kuney, Berryhill & Kuney, McCormick, Ide & Kabot, James Ganulin, Clifford W. Schulz, Robin Leslie Stewart, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, James G. McCain, Michael N. Nordstrom, Thomas M. Zuckerman, Zuckerman, Harmann & Walden, Feldman, Waldman & Kline, Dante J. Nomellini, Nomellini & Grilli, Christopher A. Lee, John F. Cheadle, County Counsel, Richard W. Dickenson, Assistant County Counsel, Rebecca A. Davis, Deputy County Counsel, David Whitridge, Wilson & Hoslett, Cressey H. Nakagawa, Victor J. Westman, County Counsel, and Edward V. Lane, Jr., Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, R.H. Connett, Assistant Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, M. Anne Jennings and Clifford T. Lee, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Appellant.

Robert W. James, Russell Kletzing, Marcia J. Steinberg, Warren J. Abbott, Fred Vendig, Victor E. Gleason, James Roberts, Arthur L. Littleworth, Best, Best & Krieger, Bruce C. Atkins, Edward F. Taylor, Stanley C. Lagerlof, Burris, Lagerlof, Swift & Senecal, Maurice C. Sherrill, Redwine & Sherrill, James W. Dilworth, Ralph B. Helm, Helm, Budinger & Lemieux, Helm & Lemieux, James G. McCain, Michael N. Nordstrom, Frederick Bold, Jr., and Bold & Polisner for Interveners and Appellants.

Malcolm T. Dungan, Gordon E. Davis, William H. Booth, Richard Charles Harper, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, W. Reece Bader, George A. Yuhas, Orrick, Herrington, Rowley & Sutcliff and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Thomas J. Graff, John W. Krautkraemer, E. Clement Shute, Jr., and Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

RACANELLI, P.J.

This appeal raises a number of novel and complex questions concerning the interrelationship of the law of water quality and the law of water rights. The coordinated cases arise out of efforts by the State Water Resources Control Board (the Board) to set new water quality standards for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) in order to take account of the combined effects upon the Delta of the state's two...

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