ELR Citation: ELR 20126
No(s). 80-1038 (W.D. Tenn. Jul 23, 1987)

The court rules that civil penalties under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) do not survive the death of the violator. The court first holds that it is not inequitable to order defendant landowner to restore illegally destroyed wetlands by filling in drainage ditches and removing culve...