Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Inc. v. U.S. E.P.A. An excellent review of the Water Transfers Rule.
Category: Clean Water Act
Army Corps of Engineers 404 Permit Process
Corps permits are also necessary for any work, including construction and dredging, in the Nation’s navigable waters. The Corps balances the reasonably foreseeable benefits and detriments of proposed projects, and makes permit decisions that recognize the essential values of the…
GAO – Making the Clean Water Act Work
CLEAN WATER ACT – Changes Needed If Key EPA Program Is to Help Fulfill the Nation’s Water Quality Goals, GAO-14-80 What GAO Found The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the states each have responsibilities for developing and implementing pollution targets,…
Allowing wetlands to migrate inland as sea level rises – state land use issues
Titus J, Hudgens D, Trescott D, Craghan M, Nuckols W, Hershner C, et al. State and local governments plan for development of most land vulnerable to rising sea level along the US Atlantic coast. Environmental Research Letters. 2009;4(4):044008. with supplement…
Breaking The Golden Rule: Judicial Review of Federal Water Project Planning
Oliver A. Houck, Breaking The Golden Rule: Judicial Review of Federal Water Project Planning, 65 Rutgers Law Review 1-57 (2012) From the Abstract The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is one of the oldest institutions of the federal government, and…
Draft EPA Rule on the Waters of the United States
Draft EPA Rule on the Waters of the United States – reduced size PDF (23 megs) Draft EPA Rule on the Waters of the United States – original PDF (129 megs) Supporting document on the connectivity of the waters of the United…
EPA – Connectivity of Streams and Wetlands to Downstream Waters
Draft Report – 12 Meg Draft Report – 6 meg This report reviews and synthesizes the peer-reviewed scientific literature on the connectivity or isolation of streams and wetlands relative to large water bodies such as rivers, lakes, estuaries, and oceans.…
Friends of the Everglades 2009
Friends of the Everglades v. South Florida Water Management District, 570 F.3d 1210 (11th Cir. 2009), cert. denied, 131 S. Ct. 643 (2010). Petition for certiorari Brief for United States Sugar Corporation in opposition Brief for the United States in opposition…
The Tulloch Rule
The Tulloch Cases and rule deal with the redeposition of dredged material. Tulloch II – The decision on remand of Tulloch I Tulloch chronology thru 2001 Tulloch_Conforming_Q-As – EPA’s modification of the rule based on the cases. The EPA stepped back to…
Hammond Wetland Wastewater Assimilation Project – Sewage Diversion
This project dumps partially treated sewage into the wetlands. The rationale is that this sewage will build new wetlands. The reality is that it saves fixing the treatment plant and is destroying the wetlands. Hammond-WW-Attainability-5-01-05 Consultant’s report justifying the project. 2005…
City of Hammond Discharge Permit
City of Hammond AI 19578 Discharge Permit