California Landowners Seek High Court Review Of Sediment TMDL Ruling

摘要

A group of California landowners is asking the Supreme Court to determine whether regulators can set total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) expressed as concentrations of pollutants contained in lake bed sediment - rather than more traditional measures such as mass per time or toxicity - after state courts upheld such a waterbody cleanup plan. The petitioners in Charles Conway Jr., et al. v. State Water Resources Control Board (WRCB), et al. argue high court review is warranted as there are more than 41,000 waterbodies in need of TMDLs but there is little, if any, judicial guidance on how such limits for lake bed or riverbed sediment may be expressed. See page 2 for details. (Doc. ID: 185308)