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Fox Canyon board extends $20/acre-foot legal reserve fee to maintain legal-defense fund

5823915 · September 25, 2025
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The Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency board voted to extend a $20-per-acre-foot reserve fee to keep a fund for ongoing legal costs solvent amid active adjudications and ordinance challenges.

The Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency Board of Directors on Sept. 24 voted to extend a $20-per-acre-foot reserve fee to maintain the agency’s GEMS legal fund, which staff said is projected to run a negative balance without the charge.

The fee was originally created in 2006 and was adopted in a 2020 resolution to provide revenue for legal expenses. Staff told the board the fund has seen heavy expenditures on two ongoing adjudications and a challenge to the OPV allocation…

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