Legal Opinion
Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 18, 2017No. Docket Nos. 14-1823, 14-1909, 14-1991, 14-1997, 14-2003PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge: ■
“Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink.”2
Because New York City cannot tap the rivers, bays, and ocean that inhabit, surround, or, on occasion, inundate it to slake the thirst of its many millions of residents, it must instead draw water primarily from remote areas north of the City, mainly the Catskill Mountain/Delaware River watershed west of the Hudson River, and the Croton Watershed east of the Hudson River and closer to New York City.3 Water is drawn from the Schoharie Reservoir4 through the eighteen-mile-long Shandaken Tunnel into the Esopus Creek. The…
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