Quad Cities Waterkeeper v. Ballegeer

ORDER

■ SARA DARROW, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Plaintiffs Quad Cities Waterkeeper (“Waterkeeper”) and Prairie Rivers Network (“Prairie Rivers”) bring this action for declaratory and injunctive relief and civil penalties under the citizen suit provision of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1365(a)(1). Plaintiffs claim that Defendants David G. Ballegeer, Ballegeer Trucking, Inc., Ballegeer Excavating, Inc., and Francis Ballegeer have violated and continue to violate the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251-1387, by discharging pollutants without a permit issued under the Act. Now before the Court…