The dispute between Imperial Valley farmer Mike Abatti and the Imperial Irrigation District over water rights entered a new chapter last month. Mr. Abatti filed a petition for
certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to review last yearâs California appellate courtâs ruling in the IIDâs favor.
Our local Imperial County Farm Bureau and the California Farm Bureau, along with some individual valley farmers, then filed amicus briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Mr. Abattiâs petition for review.
Mr. Abatti and friends claim that last yearâs California appellate court ruling has abrogated â cancelled â farmersâ long-held water rights.
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Conservationists in California and across the West are deeply skeptical of hydropower, and it’s not hard to see why. There’s a long history of government agencies damming spectacular canyons, choking off rivers, obliterating fish populations and cutting off access to Indigenous peoples. It’s a history detailed in books such as “Cadillac Desert,” and experienced by anyone who has spent time fishing, kayaking or swimming in the region’s reshaped waterways, or hiking alongside them.
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ANNOUNCES US MARKET CONTRACT TO PROVIDE THREE MOBILE TURBINES TO CALIFORNIA S IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT
LONDON, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - APR Energy Ltd. ( APR ), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atlas Corp. ( Atlas or the Company ) (NYSE: ATCO), announced today that it has secured a contract with California s Imperial Irrigation District ( IID ) to utilize three gas turbines to place power dense distributed generation capacity over three sites during the 2021 summer months. APR s fast-track power solution will assist in maintaining frequency and provide needed backup capacity within IID s service territory, which covers 6,471 square miles, including all of Imperial County and parts of Riverside and San Diego counties. APR s services will serve as an integral part of IID s commitment to maintaining capacity reserve margins and grid stability within its large system during the summe
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is chair of the Water Authority’s Board of Directors, and lives in Rancho San Diego.
Increasingly ominous signs suggest that we are entering another multiyear drought in California. The State Water Project recently reduced projected water deliveries for 2021 from 10 percent of requested supplies to 5 percent, and on April 21, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a regional drought emergency in the Russian River watershed in Northern California.
But it’s a different story in San Diego County.
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Home Grown: Dispute over water rights possibly going to U.S. Supreme Court
CBS 13 s April Hettinger dives into the disagreement over who controls the rights to the water from the Colorado River
EL CENTRO, Calif. (KYMA, KECY) - In today s Home Grown, a local lawsuit over ownership of the Colorado River water might be taken higher to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Michael Abatti versus the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) lawsuit has been ongoing in the valley, disputing over whether water rights belong to the landowners or if they are controlled by the IID. The best way we can protect our water rights is we can have it tied to the land, or as the Supreme Court decision said, appurtenant to the land, Larry Cox said, former president of the Imperial County Farm Bureau.