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Court Clarifies Liability of Industrial POTW User
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1989.tb03316.x
Subject(s) - liability , clean water act , business , law , computer security , political science , computer science , water quality , ecology , biology
A federal appellate court held that an industrial user of a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) could be liable under the Clean Water Act (CWA) even if the user's discharge was not a significant contribution to the POTW's violation of its permit.