Byram River v. Village of Port Chester, New York

WHITMAN KNAPP, District Judge.

This suit seeks to stop the depositing of inadequately treated sewage into the Byram River (“the River”) by the sewage treatment plant owned and operated by defendant Village of Port Chester. The River (which is named as a plaintiff in the action) is a federal navigable river which forms a portion of the boundary line between Connecticut and New York, and eventually flows into Long Island Sound. The other plaintiffs are the Byram River Pollution Abatement Association, a Connecticut corporation created to protect and improve the quality of the River’s water; the…