ELR Citation: ELR 20662
No(s). 72 561-WTS (N.D. Cal. Oct 13, 1972)

The Sierra Club brings an action to compel the removal of Leslie Salt's dikes that enclose abandoned evaporation flats in San Francisco Bay, basing its claim upon §§401, 403, and 406 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, which provide for civil injunctive relief. Distinguishing these sections fro...