Tulare County Judge sifts through barrage of arguments from groundwater agency
Lawyers for the Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) recently fired a fusillade of legal arguments against Friant Water Authority’s contention that the GSA shorted its obligation to help pay for repairs to the sinking Friant-Kern Canal. … Friant says Eastern Tule was supposed to charge its landowners enough in pumping fees to both pay Friant a minimum of $200 million and disincentivize excessive pumping, which is what sank the canal in the first place. But after four years, Friant collected only $23 million because of what it says were Eastern Tule’s lenient use of groundwater credits.
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