A Shasta County man is being sued by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for illegally swiping water from the Pit River and diverting it to a storage pond on his property in Montgomery Creek, according to the complaint. … In an interview with the Record Searchlight on Tuesday, Dec. 9, Borgna said he had not been served with the lawsuit, that he does possess water rights and that he didn’t build the ditch. ”That tributary has been there for 115 years,” Borgna said of the body carrying water from the river to the storage pond on his nearly 18-acre property, which he’s owned since 2003.