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Water
ruling sticks in Joy Road battle OCCIDENTAL - Joy Road homeowners have won a court ruling in their efforts to halt logging of a 13-acre redwood forest that they believe may be crucial to maintaining an underground water supply. Superior Court Judge Lawrence Antolini made permanent a temporary order halting logging by the Harmony Forest and Land Co. of Occidental until a full hearing can be held. By law, Antolini could not issue the preliminary injunction unless he believed the neighbors would win their case at the hearing. If homeowners do prevail, the case would set a precedent for all future redwood logging proposals because the state Department of Forestry would have to acknowledge the contribution of fog-drip from redwoods to underground aquifers, said Edwin Wilson, attorney for the Joy Road Area Forest and Watershed Association. Joy Road
is one of the most water-scarce areas in Sonoma County, according
to county planners, and homeowners fear they will have to truck
in water if the redwoods are cut.
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