Infrastructure

State Supreme Court declines to block purchase  After a hard-fought battle advocates opposing the sale of five islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta lost their battle last Thursday when the state Supreme Court ruled that Southern California’s Metropolitan Water District (MWD) could proceed with the $175-million land purchase. A …

Cadiz Inc. has announced that the review period by the California State Supreme Court of the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project (Cadiz Water Project) has expired as of Monday, July 11. With the expiration of the available time period for further review of administrative decisions and judicial …

California’s Third District Court of Appeal has reinstated a stay temporarily blocking the sale of some 20,000 acres to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD). The new stay lasts until at least July 15. The controversial sale of Delta island land from Swiss investors to MWD was originally …

Fourteen California agencies will receive grant funds from the Bureau of Reclamation to support projects to increase water and energy conservation and efficiency, plan for climate change and other threats to our water supplies, and to take action to secure our water resources for the communities, economies and ecosystems they …

The Salton Sea restoration project received a major boost in funding with $80.5 million from the state budget Gov. Jerry Brown signed earlier this week. The funds will provide for not only the restoration of habitat at the receding lake but also will provide for the development of a long-term …

A Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled Friday that the long-fought Delta Management Plan is no longer valid. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael P. Kenny had ruled earlier last month that certain elements of the plan were inadequate but has now put the plan aside until additional changes can be made. …