Corder v. State Water Pollution Control Board

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This is a suit brought under Section 7 of Article 7621d of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, to set aside the action of the State Water Pollution Control Board in granting a permit to Harris County Water Control and Improvement District No. 84, to discharge sewage effluent from a sewage treatment plant into Fresh Water Bayou, a stream which is dry nearly all of the year, whose course is adjacent to or in the immediate vicinity of plaintiffs’ property. Such permit was issued April 27, 1964, effective as of March 5, 1964. Plaintiffs timely filed suit in the 53rd…