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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Lie finds the trial court improperly granted the water district’s petition for a writ of mandate challenging the county’s approval of California-American Water Company’s application for a permit to construct the desalination plant and other facilities in an unincorporated part of Monterey County as part of its Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project. The county’s statement of overriding considerations justifying the project was supported by substantial evidence and any remaining deficiency in the statement as an informational document was not prejudicial. The water district does not dispute that the California Public Utilities Commission’s environmental impact report identified remedial mitigation measures, or that the county adopted them, and the water district has shown no basis for continuing concern with the project’s consistency with the policies. Reversed and remanded.