Roughly a half-dozen agencies, governments and a nonprofit group have filed briefs with a state regulator that could determine whether or not California American Water Co. gets the OK for its years-long effort to build a desalination plant on the Monterey Peninsula.
LAFCO’s appeal It wasn’t enough that LAFCO’s foolish decision against the Water Management District (MPWMD) was overturned in court. Now LAFCO is digging the hole deeper by appealing Judge Wills’ decision against them. LAFCO has already wasted over half a million dollars of public money on legal costs and now more on the appeal. LAFCO’s […]
In January 2022, the Local Area Formation Commission, or LAFCO, denied the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District’s petition for what’s called the district’s latent powers to buy out Cal Am’s local infrastructure.