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Contested Green Hills Ranch well permit generates technical and procedural dispute; evidentiary hearing continued to Feb. 13
Summary
A public quasi‑adjudicatory hearing on Green Hills Ranch's proposed new/replacement well produced competing technical analyses about drawdown and material injury to nearby domestic wells; the board received evidence and continued the hearing to Feb. 13 for closing arguments and further deliberation.
A contested hearing on a proposed new well for Green Hills Ranch drew legal counsel, hydrologists and multiple affected parties to the Fox Canyon boardroom for technical testimony and procedural argument.
The hearing arises under section 4.14 of the LPV adjudication judgment because the proposed well moves a point of extraction more than 300 feet and triggered notice to surrounding well owners. The City of Ventura and Del Norte Mutual Water Company filed protests and asked the board to continue the hearing because they said a technical staff report and proposed operational conditions were circulated only days before the meeting. The city and Del Norte said they needed additional time to evaluate the technical analyses and the operational thresholds staff proposed.
Staff hydrologist…
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