Sierra Club v. Leslie Salt Co.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

SWEIGERT, District Judge.

These two consolidated actions are brought for injunctive and declaratory relief under the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (33 U.S.C. § 401 et seq.) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.).

In No. 72-561, plaintiffs Sierra Club and Save San Francisco Bay Association, conservation organizations, and plaintiff Kent Dedrick, an individual member of the Sierra Club, sue defendants, Leslie Salt Co., Leslie Properties, Inc., and defendant Mobil Oil Estates. These defendants own many thousand acres of property along…