Water company calls Claremont’s purchase offer ‘unrealistic’
A $54 million offer by the city to buy local assets from the Golden State Water Co. has been slammed as being impractical. Kruger said the city’s formal offer “is nothing more than the first…
Caldwell moves toward eminent domain action against Pioneer Irrigation
2008 lawsuit filed against the city, Pioneer Irrigation claims Caldwell illegally uses Pioneer’s storm water drains for city residential areas, a use the lawsuit argues will eventually cause flooding or public health problems or both….
Caldwell to consider eminent domain action
The eminent domain action would acquire ditches and associated facilities, water rights, wells, associated rights and drainage capacity to provide irrigation delivery and secure the drainage of the city, according to the meeting agenda. Butts,…
Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas seeks governor’s intervention in stalemate over reservoir
In 1998, Congress approved an agreement between the Kickapoo and the Nemaha-Brown Watershed Board to build the dam as part of another watershed program. But some landowners refused to sell their property and the watershed…
Thorndike Fire and Water Commission seeking to take property by eminent domain for water main replacement project
Brown said the commission was seeking temporary easements for a period of two weeks that would allow the contractor to park equipment on the property. Brown said the total area needed was just a few…
High court wades in on water utility
For the second time, the Indiana Supreme Court next week will hear arguments on a legal issue surrounding the city’s 2002 eminent domain takeover of the Aqua Indiana northern utility. Fort Wayne.com 18 September 2012.
Northern Will County Water Agency may pursue eminent domain
Water agency may pursue eminent domain after $34M bid rejected Reilly, Ginger. Chicago Tribune 7 August 2012. The Northern Will County Water Agency is considering pursuing eminent domain after Illinois American Water Co. did not…