South Carolina Utility's Suit Tests Boundaries Of CWA Section 208 Plans

A privately owned water utility in South Carolina is asking a federal judge to declare invalid an EPA-approved plan to reduce water pollution, seeking in a rare test of Clean Water Act (CWA) section 208 areawide plans to end a dispute with a neighboring municipality over whether the municipality must treat the utility's wastewater. In Carolina Water Service (CWS) v. Regina McCarthy, et al. , the water company is challenging both EPA's approval of the section 208 plan, developed by...