Crutchfield v. United States Army Corps of Engineers

MEMORANDUM OPINION

PAYNE, District Judge.

In this action, Frances Broaddus Crutchfield and Henry Ruffin Broaddus (“Crutchfield” or the “Plaintiffs”) seek an order invalidating a permit issued under the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251, et seq. by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“the Corps”) to The Hanover Group, L.L.C. (“THG”) on April 30, 2002. The permit at issue allows, with conditions, THG to build a sewer line (the “Academy Creek Trunk Sewer” or “AC Sewer”) from the Bluffs at Bell Creek, a project being developed by THG in Hanover County, Virginia (the “Bell Creek Project”), to…