Denver Water Seeks Emergency Stay Of Landmark 404 Permit Injunction

Denver Water is appealing a lower court’s ruling prohibiting further construction on the municipality’s development of a key water supply project after the judge, in a landmark ruling, rejected the Army Corps of Engineers’ interpretation of EPA’s Clean Water Act (CWA) section 404(b) guidelines in its issuance of the project’s permit. The city and county of Denver, acting by and through its Board of Water Commissioners (Denver Water), filed an April 7 notice of appeal in the suit Save the...