Lawsuits attempt to extract Boswell pumping numbers
The J.G. Boswell Company pumps, on average, 100,000 acre-feet of groundwater a year from beneath its lands covering the old Tulare Lake Bed, according to a Boswell employee. The information was elicited in a wide-ranging deposition of Boswell water department manager Mark Unruh as part of an ongoing lawsuit over a pipeline being built by rival farming entity Sandridge Partners, controlled by John Vidovich. Unruh also runs the Tulare Lake Canal Company, controlled by Boswell. The canal company sued to stop the Sandridge pipeline as the line was trenched to the edge of the canal banks.
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