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Farm's Discharged Rainwater Exempt From Clean Water Act
Publication year - 2003
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.1551-8833.2003.tb10306.x
Subject(s) - rainwater harvesting , clean water act , eleventh , storm , environmental science , clean water , hydrology (agriculture) , water resource management , environmental engineering , meteorology , geography , engineering , waste management , water quality , ecology , physics , geotechnical engineering , acoustics , biology
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled that a farm's discharge of water resulting from rainfall into a lake was “agricultural storm water discharge” within the meaning of an exemption to the Clean Water Act (CWA).