Alliance to Save the Mattaponi v. Corps of Eng'rs

ELR Citation: ELR 20079
No(s). 06-01268 (D.D.C. Mar 31, 2009)

A district court held that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers erred in approving, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) erred in failing to veto, a Clean Water Act (CWA) permit authorizing the construction of a 1,526-acre reservoir in eastern Virginia. The proposed reservoir project would...