Froebel v. Meyer

DECISION AND ORDER

ADELMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff Kurt Froebel brings this action under the citizen suit provision of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, commonly called the Clean Water Act (“CWA” or “Act”), codified as amended at 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251-1387. Froebel alleges that defendants, who include the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (“DNR”), two DNR officials and Waukesha County, violat ed and continue to violate the Act by discharging pollutants into the Oconomowoc River and North Lake without the requisite permits, as a result of the DNR’s poorly executed removal of Funk’s…