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: Legal Pad | LALos Angeles County violated Clean Water Act, says court
By Richard Binder
A U.S. District Court in Los Angeles found that L.A. County violated the federal Clean Water Act when it discharged polluted water at Surfrider Beach in Malibu.
The court also found the county liable for discharging polluted water into a marine coastal preserve on the northern edge of the county, one of three dozen designated areas of special biological significance along the California coast. But the court rejected the claims of the National Resource Defense Council and Santa Monica Baykeeper, who brought the suit, that L.A. County was also responsible for polluted urban runoff that flows into Malibu Creek and the Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and San Gabriel Rivers.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on April 28, 2010 (boomark / email).
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