Documentation has been filed against California American Water Company. The complaint aims to force Cal-Am into a Water Purchase Agreement with the “Pure Water Monterey’s” ‘expansion recycling project’ run by the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District. That’s because Cal-Am has failed to meet a deadline for its part in increasing the local water supply. Along with that, in 2009 Cal-Am was hit with a state cease-and-desist order to stop over-pumping from the Carmel River Basin, because over pumping can cause environmental damage .
Unable to meet the 2016 deadline, Cal-Am received an extension to the end of this year.
