United States v. Hampton Roads Sanitation Department

ELR Citation: 42 ELR 20076
No(s). 2:09-ev-481 (E.D. Va. Apr 2, 2012) (Allen, J.)

A district court held that a local sanitation department that owns and operates a complex sanitary sewer conveyance system and 13 wastewater treatment plants must pay penalties for the unintended discharge of sewage following heavy rainfall in the spring of 2010. The department previously entere...