New Legal Challenge To EPA 'Flow' Limits Revives Debate Over Stormwater

March 3, 2015
A Vermont city's challenge to an EPA-approved waterbody cleanup plan that limits the rate at which stormwater can flow into a stream is reviving the legal debate over whether the agency can use flow as a surrogate for reducing sediment and other runoff-borne pollution, following a 2013 district court ruling that found such controls violate the Clean Water Act (CWA). In a complaint filed recently in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, the city of Rutland, VT,...


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