Casitas Municipal Water District v. United States

OPINION

WIESE, Judge.

Plaintiff, Casitas Municipal Water District (formerly the Ventura River Municipal Water District), entered into a contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation for the construction and operation of a water reclamation project on the Ventura River in Ventura County, California (“the Ventura River Project”). The contract, commonly referred to as the “repayment contract,” contemplated the expenditure by the United States of an agreed-upon ceiling amount of $30.9 million in construction costs, which was to be repaid by plaintiff over a period of 40 years. The contract…