Cemex case against state water board continued to summer
A lawsuit by the mining company with contracts to extract more than 50 million tons of aggregate from Soledad Canyon has been continued to July, according to court records. Cemex, a multinational building materials company, is suing the State Water Resources Control Board over the company’s application for the rights to use the Santa Clara River. The State Water Board said last year Cemex’s application would be publicly re-noticed, after pressure from state lawmakers who sought legislation to force the board to re-notice the request to use the river to mine. When Cemex appealed the decision to re-notice and the State Water Board denied that appeal, Cemex sued in September, stating its application “has already lingered since the first Bush administration.”