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Water Audit California is suing to make Napa County increase oversight of groundwater pumping for vineyards, wineries, and other uses, claiming that the pumping affects the Napa River.
The lawsuit said the county has a âpublic trustâ duty to care for the river. The idea is that too much groundwater pumping from wells can keep groundwater from seeping into the river during dry months, to the detriment of fish and other aquatic life.
âToday, the Napa River is important for maintaining native aquatic animals because it is the least urbanized of the sizable watersheds directly feeding San Francisco Bay,â the lawsuit said.
A 36-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars, sentenced Friday in Napa County after being found guilty on numerous counts of child molestation.
The long saga of the Mountain Peak application for a new 100,000-gallon winery with 14,500 annual visitors including mega-events at the end of the densely forested, 6.5-mile-long, dead-end Soda Canyon Road, a non-conforming Napa County Standards Road, was approved on May 18, 2021.
It was a second review of one previously approved by the supervisors just before the 2017 Atlas Peak fire. This review ordered by the Napa County Superior Court asked the supervisors to consider the effects of these fires which destroyed 134 of the 163 homes in the immediate area and claimed lives.
In granting their second approval, the supervisors determined that the fires provided no data compelling them to change their minds in spite of testimony after testimony by residents who could not escape because the single, flame-engulfed escape route was blocked by fallen trees while many more were airlifted by helicopters because they were trapped. If this were not enough, they disregarded the 1-mile-long lim