ELR Citation: ELR 20172
No(s). 476 41821 II (Wash. Ct. App. Dec 13, 1971)

Appellants, farmers living downstream from the city's sewage treatment plant, sought damages for diminished value of their property caused by the inability of the city to treat industrial sewage placed into the stream. The dumping of polluted wastes by a city into a private watercourse constitutes a...