In Re Alameda County Assessor's Parcel Nos. 537-801-2-4 & 537-850-9

ORRICK, District Judge.

Petitioners, the owners of a 286-acre farm in Newark, California, seek to quash an administrative warrant obtained by applicants, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), on August 20, 1986, for the purpose of entering petitioners’ farm and determining what areas of the farm, if any, fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., commonly referred to as the “Clean Water Act” (“CWA”). For the reasons following, the motion to quash the warrant is denied.

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The actual owners of the farm, and the…