Beverage company BlueTriton Brands Inc. sued California’s water board after regulators stopped the brand from diverting millions of gallons of water away from a watershed near San Bernardino National Forest.
The lawsuit, filed in the Fresno County Superior Court, alleges that California’s State Water Resources Control Board acted outside of its jurisdiction on Sept. 19, when it decided that BlueTriton’s groundwater diversions affected surface water and were therefore subject to the board’s permitting authority.
The board’s cease-and-desist order tightly restricted how much water BlueTriton could funnel away from the Strawberry Creek watershed through tunnels and other transportation methods for its ...
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