Village of Ontario v. Whitman

The village of Ontario, some time prior to January 11, 1972, sought a permit to discharge effluent from a waste water treatment plant into Touby’s Run, which it proposed to construct, the flow from the plant being properly described as a discharge into the waters of the state. At the time of the application, the water pollution control board (WPCB) was the controlling authority in Ohio. The vicissitudes of the application were many and varied during the existence of WPCB, and the transition to control by the environmental protection agency headed by a director, and culminated with a beginning…