Elden Hughes and Cadiz
Posted on | December 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
If it were possible to raise Elden Hughes from the dead, the release today of the draft environmental impact report on the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project would do it. A recipient of the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award for his work protecting California deserts, Hughes — who died on Sunday in Joshua Tree — was an integral part of the drive that in 2002 temporarily defeated a scheme by Cadiz, Inc to mine an ancient reserve of groundwater near the Mojave National Preserve.
For background on the Cadiz project, click here. To hear Hughes on KPCC’s Larry Mantle Show after the Cadiz project was revived in 2009, here. Do, while reading, be sure to click here for a fine obituary on Hughes by the LA Times’s Louis Sahagun.
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[…] Water District, the CEQA lead agency, rejected it. A decade later, it rises from the grave. The Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project is located in San Bernardino County between Cadiz and Rice, California. Underlying Cadiz […]