CENTRAL AND WEST BAIS WRD v. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WATER CO.

No. B155143.

135 Cal.Rptr.2d 486 (2003)

109 Cal.App.4th 891

CENTRAL AND WEST BASIN WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICT, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WATER COMPANY, et al. Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Eight.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing July 9, 2003.

Review Denied August 27, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hatch & Parent, Robert J. Saperstein, Santa Barbara, and Russell M. McGlothlin for Defendant and Appellant.

Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney, Richard M. Helgeson, Senior Assistant City Attorney for Water and Power, Edward Schlotman, Assistant City Attorney and Julie A. Conboy, Deputy City Attorney, for Amicus Curiae City of Los Angeles, acting by and through the Los Angels Department of Water and Power.

Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava & Maccuish, Edward J. Casey and Paeter E. Garcia for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Lemieux & O'Neill and Steven P. O'Neill, Westlake Vg., for Amicus Curiae Central Basin Municipal Water District. Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliot, Frederic A. Fudacz and Alfred E. Smith, Los Angeles, for Amicus Curiae Upper Los Angeles River Area Watermaster and Main San Gabriel Basin Watermaster.


COOPER, P.J.

This appeal presents two principal issues: who has the right to utilize unused storage space in the Central Basin, a groundwater basin, and who has the right to manage the subsurface storage space.1 These issues arise in the context of a motion that sought to allocate all of the usable storage space to the 148 public entities and private persons with the adjudicated right to extract water from the basin. The trial court denied...

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