The longtime battle over Newhall Ranch has spilled into unusual legal territory with a fight over the status of the private water company that would likely serve the development project. Uniquely, the Valencia Water Company (VWC) may be California’s only active large-scale water provider that is neither public, nor mutual, Read more…
Appellate court arguments are expected Wednesday over environmentalists’ demands that Newhall Ranch developers reassess the amount of water needed to supply to 21,000 homes slated for construction. The court date is the latest development in a legal battle launched in August 2017 by a local environmental group called Santa Clarita Read more…
Humans cause fires. According to CalFire, even as the number of wildfires in California rose due to the dry conditions brought on by climate change, the number of human-caused wildfires rose to 95% of all fires. A good number of the most dangerous wind-driven fires were caused by downed Read more…
SCOPE will be petitioning the Supreme Court to review this decision because we believe it was wrongly decided for the following reasons: First, Castaic Lake Water Agency was formed in 1962 to deliver state project water to the Santa Clarita Valley. When it was established by a special act of Read more…