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Agricultural ‘Deep Ripping’ Ruled a Pollutant Discharge
Publication year - 2002
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.1551-8833.2002.tb09426.x
Subject(s) - pollutant , ninth , environmental science , agriculture , clean water act , wetland , environmental engineering , environmental protection , water quality , chemistry , geography , ecology , archaeology , physics , organic chemistry , acoustics , biology
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has determined that under the Clean Water Act (CWA), an agricultural process known as deep ripping can constitute a discharge of pollutants into wetlands, even though it simply churns up soil that is already there.