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Irrigation district sued over test wells
Chico Enterprise-Record -
September
13,
2007
Irrigation district sued over test wells
Chico Enterprise Record – 9/14/07
The Butte Environmental Council has legally challenged a Glenn Colusa Irrigation District's project to install wells in Glenn, Butte and Tehama County to test capacity to extract groundwater.
According to a press release from BEC, the environmental organization does not believe the project should be exempt from environmental review.
GCID has stated a more further environmental review would not be required until the wells are used for groundwater production, rather than testing of the aquifer.
"GCID chose to skirt the hard analysis required by CEQA by trying to assert that it is only seeking information from a research project, completely obfuscating its focus on water exports as noted in numerous documents," BEC executive director Barbara Vlamis stated in the press release. #
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