ELR Citation: ELR 20118
No(s). 07-13829 (11th Cir. Jun 4, 2009)

The Eleventh Circuit held that a water district may pump polluted canal water into Florida's Lake Okeechobee without an NPDES permit. It is undisputed that the agricultural and industrial runoff in the canals contain "pollutants," that the lake and the canals are "navigable waters," and that the thr...