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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Earl finds that the trial court properly denied a motion filed by one of 11 plaintiffs in the coordinated State Water Board Cases that sought to intervene all 11 cases. The coordinated cases are challenges to the State Water Resources Control Board's adoption of a water quality control plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary. The San Joaquin Tributaries Authority is not entitled to mandatory intervention, as it lacks either a property or transactional interest in the plan's flow and salinity objectives and it failed to show how any settlement would impair its ability to protect its interests. And permissive intervention would result in unnecessary participation that would further complicate a case that already has 55 names on the service list. Affirmed.