Central San Joaquin Water Conservation District v. Stockton East Water District

Opinion

RAYE, P. J.

California requires public owners of water conveyance facilities with unused capacity to make them available to others in return for “fair compensation.” In this long-simmering dispute between Central San Joaquin Water Conservation District (Central), which supplies surface water to agricultural customers, and Stockton East Water District (Stockton East), which operates the conveyance system through which the water flows, the trial court was required to determine whether the compensation demanded by Stockton East for transporting (wheeling) Central’s water was “fair” under…