Legal Opinion
Leslie Salt Co. v. Froehlke
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 11, 1978No. Nos. 76-2414, 76-3135, 76-3202 and 76-2696PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SNEED, Circuit Judge:
These appeals deal with the scope of the regulatory jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) over “navigable waters of the United States” as that term is used, first, in the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. § 401 et seq., and, second, in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, 33 U.S.C. § 1251, et seq.
Suit was initiated on March 29, 1972, by the Sierra Club against Leslie Salt Co. (“Leslie”), seeking a declaratory judgment that Leslie’s diked evaporation ponds in and around Bair Island in San Francisco Bay were built in violation of the…
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