Environmental Law
Envt'l Law News Fall 2019, Vol. 28, No. 2
Content
- 2019-2020 Environmental Law Section Executive Committee
- Any Act Necessary? the Fifth Appellate District's Decision in Inzana v. Turlock Irrigation District
- Editor's Note...
- Environmental Law News Publications Committee
- Is the Housing Accountability Act the Solution to California's Housing Crisis?
- Open-Pit Metallic Mining in California: Still Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place (To Mine)
- Sedimentation in California Reservoirs: a Long-Term Problem of Immediate Concern
- Table of Contents
- The Delta Tunnels/California WaterFix: Part 2 of the Swrcb Water Rights Change Petition and Beyond
- An Aquifer Betrayed: the Monterey Desalinization Project at Odds with California Water Law
An Aquifer Betrayed: The Monterey Desalinization Project at Odds with California Water Law
by Paul Stanton Kibel*
Paul Stanton Kibel
I. INTRODUCTION
The California American Water Company’s Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project (Cal-Am Project) is a proposed desalinization facility in Monterey County that was approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in September 2018.1 The Cal-Am Project would treat water pumped from inland coastal groundwater aquifers—the Dune Sand Aquifer and the 180-Foot Aquifer—rather than water pumped directly from the ocean. The Cal-Am Projet’s pumping of these coastal aquifers is expected to result in increased seawater intrusion in groundwater.