Legal Opinion
Piney Run Preservation Ass'n v. County Commissioners of Carroll County
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 10, 2001No. 00-1283, 00-1322PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge KING wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINS and Judge GREGORY joined.
OPINION
KING, Circuit Judge:
The Piney Run Preservation Association sued the Commissioners of Carroll County, Maryland, claiming that a county-operated waste treatment plant was discharging warm water into a local stream, Piney Run, in violation of the Clean Water Act. The district court construed the plant’s NPDES permit as not prohibiting the discharge of heat. Nonetheless, the court decided that the Commissioners were liable under the Clean Water Act for the discharge of…
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