RECENT STATE DECISIONS

January 2010

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Fifth District Opines that Public Agencies Must Obtain C-57 Water Well Contractor’s Licenses
California Groundwater Assn. v. Semitropic Water Storage District, ___Cal.App.4th___

On November 9, 2009, the California Court of Appeal for the Fifth Judicial District entered its decision in California Groundwater Assn. v. Semitropic Water Storage District in which it held that public agencies are not exempt from the requirements of Water Code § 13750.5. Under this section, the court found that if the public agency “undertakes to dig, bore, or drill a water well, cathodic protection well, groundwater monitoring well, or geothermal heat exchange well, to deepen or reperforate” any such well, or “to abandon or destroy” any such well: