ELR Citation: ELR 21088
No(s). 90-6146 (2d Cir. Jul 16, 1990)

The court affirms a district court decision to enter a consent decree requiring a county to construct dewatering facilities at one of its sewage treatment plants. The county and the Environmental Protection Agency entered into a consent decree to phase out the county's ocean dumping of sewage sludge by the end of 1991, and the county sought modification based on its decision to use a private vendor that would reuse the sludge. The court refuses to modify the decree because the modification will not further the decree's purpose of ending ocean dumping without delay.

[The district court decision is published at 20 ELR 21056.]

Counsel for Defendant-Appellant
Leslie Gordon Fagen
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
1285 Ave. of the Americas, New York NY 10019-6064
(212) 373-3000

Robert W. Schmidt, County Attorney of Nassau County
1 West St., Mineola NY 11501
(516) 535-3056

Counsel for Plaintiff-Appellee
Deborah B. Zwany, Ass't U.S. Attorney
Andrew J. Maloney, Robert L. Begleiter
U.S. Courthouse, 225 Cadman Plaza E., Brooklyn NY 11201
(718) 330-7106

Per Curiam (before Winter, Mahoney, and Walker, JJ.)