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accession: "0001437749-22-022408"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CDZI"
cik: "0000727273"
company_name: "CADIZ INC"
filed_at: "2022-09-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T09:49:34.621517+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Court remands Cadiz pipeline permits to BLM for further environmental review; co. says no delay

## Summary
- U.S. District Court affirmed tentative ruling granting Interior's motion for voluntary remand of two pipeline rights-of-way back to BLM.
- Lawsuits by Center for Biological Diversity and National Parks Conservation Association challenged 2020 permits for 58-mile pipeline conversion.
- Status conference set for September 26, 2022; BLM will reconsider scope of environmental review.
- Cadiz ownership of pipeline unaffected; construction of three new groundwater wells to start early October 2022.
- With three new wells, Cadiz Ranch will have 10 wells and total annual capacity of 25,000 acre-feet water per year.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-022408
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CDZI
- cik: 0000727273
- company_name: CADIZ INC
- filed_at: 2022-09-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/727273/000143774922022408/0001437749-22-022408-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/727273/000143774922022408/cdzi20220914_8k.htm

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