Hudson River Fishermen's Ass'n v. County of Westchester

OPINION

GOETTEL, District Judge:

Last year this country was treated to the spectacle of a New York garbage barge shuttling up and down the east coast in an effort to locate a receptive host for its odious cargo. The ensuing fiasco dramatized what surely is to become an increasingly difficult and testy political question in the 1990’s and beyond — what is this country going to do about its solid and hazardous waste?

This case presents a variation on that theme. For years the common practice in this country was to dump its waste — consumer, industrial, and otherwise — in vast landfills. The modus…