Valley Water wins lawsuit against its director; Eisenberg calls it ‘abuse of ratepayer funds’

Santa Clara Valley Water District has won its lawsuit against one of its directors who took thousands of pages of internal documents.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Ellen E. Williams has ordered Valley Water Director Rebecca Eisenberg to return a roughly 2,000-page report to Valley Water officials within five days. The report was the product of an investigation into allegations about Eisenberg’s behavior. She was censured and stripped of some of her responsibilities by her board colleagues for removing the documents without permission from the agency’s office.