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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 -- Introduction to Water Resource Management in California

Bulletin 160-05 California Water Plan

a. Volume 1 - Strategic Plan: Understanding How Water is Allocated, Used, and Regulated (3-30/3-38).

b. Volume 1-Strategic Plan: Challenges

c. Abbreviations

Chapter 2 -- Water Quality

• Standing under the federal Clean Water Act

• The relationship between water quality and water rights

[Racanelli decision].

• The role of economics in water quality      

City of Burbank v. State Water Resources Control Board, 26 Cal. Rptr. Ed 304 (2005)

City of Arcadia v. State Water Resources Control Board, 135 Cal. App. 4th 1392 (2006)

• The Federal Clean Water Act

33 USC §§ 1251, 1311, 1342, 1362

2. Navigable Waters

Solid Waste Agency v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, 531U.S. 159 (2001)

Headwaters, Inc. v. Talent Irrigation District, 243 F.3d 526 (9th Cir.  2001)

Rapanos V. United States 126 S.Ct. 2208 (2006)

3. Point Source Pollution

South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee, 124 S. Ct. 1537 (2004)

Concerned Area Residents v. Southview Farm 34 F.3d 114 (2d Cir. 1994).

Committee to Save the Mokelumne River v. East Bay Municipal Utility District, 13 F.3d 305 (9th Cir. 1993).

Borden Ranch Partnership v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 261 F.3d 810 (9^th Cir. 2001), (Per Curiam: aff'g by an equally divided Court, 123 S.Ct. 599 (2002).
 

4. NPDES: Permit Disclosures and Standards

12 F.3d 353 (2^nd Cir. 1993, amended 1994), Cert. Den., 513 U.S. 811 (1994).
 

5. Nonpoint Source Pollution

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Southwest Marine, 236 F.3d 985 (9^th Cir. 2000)

Texas Independent Producers v. EPA, 410 F.3d. 964 (2005)
 

6. Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification

Pud No. 1 of Jefferson County v.Washington Department of Ecology et al., 511 U.S. 700 (1994).

S.D. Warren v. Maine, 126 S.Ct. 1843 (2006)
 

7. Clean Water Act Section 303: Water Quality Standards Regulation and TMDLs

Natural Resources Defense Council v. Muszynski, 268 F.3d 91 (2^nd Cir 2001).

Pronsolino v. Nastri, 291 F.3d 1123 (9^th Cir. 2002).
 

8. Groundwater Pollution

Umatilla Water Quality v. Smith, 962 F. Supp. 1312 (1997).
 

9. Federal Sovereign Immunity

Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo, 456 U.S. 305 (1982).

United States Department of Energy v. Ohio, 503 U.S. 607 (1992).
 

10. Criminal Liability

United States v. Hanousek, 176 F.3d 1116 (9^th Cir.1999).
 

Chapter 3 - The Endangered Species Act and Water Issues

Bennett v. Spear, 117 S.Ct. 1154 (1997).

National Ass'n of Home Builders v. Babbitt, 130 F.3d 1041 (D.C. Cir. 1997).

Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District v. U.S., 49 Fed.Ct. 313 (2001)

Chapter 4 -Legal Issues and Water Organizations

• Water District Organization and Control

Cal. Water Code § 32222

Ball v. James, 451 U.S. 355 (1981).

Orff v. United States 125 S.Ct. 2606 (2005).
 

• Transfer of Appropriated Water

Cal Water Code §§ 109;
                                475;
                              1010-1011

Metropolitan Water District v Imperial Irrigation District, 80 Cal. App. 4^th 1403 (2000).

Cal. Water Code §§ 1810-1814

Cal. Water Code §§ 1392; 1629
 

Chapter 5 -- Prior Appropriation

Fundamentals of Prior Appropriation Systems

A. Roots and Evolution

Irwin v. Phillips, 5 Cal. 140 (1855).

California Oregon Power Co. v. Beaver Portland Cement Co., 295 U.S. 142 (1935).

Colorado Dept. of Natural Resources v. Southwestern Colorado WaterConservation District , 671 P.2d 1294 (1983)
 

B. Water Available for Appropriation

Cal Water Code §§ 1201-1202; 1244
 

C. Reclamation Reform Act of 1982

Peterson v. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 899 F.2d 799 (9^th Cir. 1990).
 

D. Acquiring Appropriative Rights in Surface Water through Prescription

People v. Shirokow, 26 Cal. 3d 301 (1980).
 

E. Appropriation of Dormant Riparian Rights

Limitation on Prospective Rights

In Re Waters of Long Valley Creek Stream, 25 Cal 3d 339 (1979).

Lockary v. Kayfetz, 917 F.2d 1150 (9^th Cir. 1990).
 

F. Administrative Powers

1. Determining the Public Interest

Johnson Rancho County Water Dist. v. State Water Rights Board, 235 Cal App.2d 863 (1965).
 

2. The Public Trust Doctrine

National Audubon Society v. Superior Court of Alpine County, 33 Cal.3d 419 (1983).

Excerpts from SWRCB D-1631 (1994) Mono Lake Decision.
 

3. Reasonable Use Doctrine

a. Transmission Losses

Tulare Irrigation District v. Lindsay-Swarthmore Irrigation District, 3 Cal. 2d 489 (1935).

Erickson v. Queen Valley Ranch Co., 22 Cal. App. 3d 578 (1971).

Imperial Irrigation Dist. v. State Water Resources Control Board, 186 Cal App. 3d 1160 (1986).
 

b. Reclaimed Water

Environmental Defense Fund v. East Bay Municipal Utility District,26 Cal. 3d 183 (1980).

SWRCB D-1625: In the Matter of the Complaint by the City of Santa Barbara Against the Use of Potable Water for the Irrigation of the Montecito Country Club.

Water Quality Assn. v. Escondido, 53 Cal App. 4^th 755 (1997).
 

c. Water Conservation

Brydon v. East Bay Municipal Utility District, 24 Cal. App. 4^th 178 (1994).
 

Chapter 6 -- Riparian Rights

A. Historical Rights

Lux v. Haggin, 69 Cal. 255 (1886).
 

B. Waters to Which Right Attaches

1. Correlative Rights

Half Moon Bay Land Co. v. Cowell, 173 Cal. 543 (1916).
 

2. Non-riparian Uses

Anaheim Union Water Co. v. Fuller, 150 Cal. 327 (1987).

Boehmer v. Big Rock Irrigation District, 117 Cal. 19 (1897).
 

C. Reasonableness of the Method of Use

Herminghaus v. Southern California Edison Company, 200 Cal. 81 (1926).

Joslin v. Marin Municipal Water District, 67 Cal. 2d 132 (1967).

Chapter 7 -- Groundwater Management

A. Groundwater Allocation and the Public

B. California: Basinwide Adjudication

Katz v. Walkinshaw, 141 Cal. 116, 74 P. 766 (1903).

City of Pasadena v. City of Alhambra, 33 Cal. 2d 908 (1949).

City of Los Angeles v. City of San Fernando, 14 Cal 3d 199 (1975).

City of Barstow v. Mojave Water Agency, 23 Cal 4^th 1224 (2000).
 
 
 

Chapter 8 -- Water Law: Doctrinal Limits

South Santa Clara Valley Water Conservation Dist. v. Johnson, 231 Cal. App. 2d 388 (1964).

Keys v. Romley, 64 Cal. 2d 396 (1966).

Locklin v. City of Lafayette, 7 Cal. 4^th 327 (1994).

Bunch v. Coachella, 15 Cal. 4^th 432 (1997).
 

Chapter 9 -- Pueblo Rights

City of Los Angeles v. City of San Fernando, 14 Cal. 3d 199 (1975).
 

Chapter 10 -- Federal Allocation and Control of Water Resources

Fundamentals of Prior Appropriation Systems - Federal Reserved Water Rights

A. Rights Reserved for Indian and Public Lands--Nature and Extent of Reserved Rights

Winters v. U.S., 207 U.S. 564 (1908).

U.S. v. New Mexico, 438 U.S. 696 (1978).
 

B. The Colorado River: A Shared Resource

Arizona v. California, 373 U.S. 546 (1963).
 

C. Federal Preemption of State Water Policy

California v. U.S., 438 U.S. 645 (1978).

In Re Waters of Hallet Creek, 44 Cal. 3d 448 (1988).

California v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 495 U.S. 490 (1990).

United States v. Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District, 788 F. Supp 1126 (E.D. Cal.) 1992.