Jordan v. City of Santa Barbara

Opinion

STONE (S. J.), P. J.

Appellant landowners filed an action against respondent public agencies claiming that respondents’ activities have increased the salinity of appellants’ groundwater, thereby causing them to suffer crop losses and reduced land value. They also claimed that discharge of effluents into the river by sewage treatment facilities operated by respondents City of Lompoc and Vandenberg Village Community Services District caused excessive growth of vegetation in the river channel which caused potential flood problems. After an eight-week trial, the trial court ruled against…