Riverbend Utilities, Inc. v. Mississippi Environmental Quality Permit Board

LAMAR, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Riverbend Utilities, Inc., challenges the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Permit Board’s decision to grant two groundwater withdrawal permits to the Harrison County Utility Authority. Finding no error, we affirm the Permit Board’s decision.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2. Although the issues before this Court are limited, we find that a factual and historical background is helpful in understanding the issues presented for resolution. Following Hurricane Katrina, Governor Haley Barbour “directed that the Mississippi Department of Environmental…