California’s Friant Water Authority and many of its member water agencies want a federal judge to put an immediate stop to Bureau of Reclamation releases from Millerton Lake and seek other options to satisfy its legal obligation with senior water rights holders in the San Joaquin Valley.
The case has been assigned to Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill.
At issue is how the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation implemented terms of a long-standing contract with growers and the source of the water the USBR tapped to meet terms of a long-standing contract with a group of senior water rights holders commonly called the “exchange contractors.”
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