ELR Citation: ELR 20112
No(s). 06-35679 (9th Cir. May 22, 2007)

The court held that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) in issuing a permit that allows a mining company to discharge 210,000 gallons of slurry per day from the company's "froth-flotation mill" into Lower Slate Lake, a 23-acre lake in the Tongass National Forest in Al...