Suncoast Waterkeeper v. City of Gulfport

摘要

Federal district court will not dismiss for lack of standing environmental groups' Clean Water Act citizen suit complaint alleging Florida city violated its national pollutant discharge elimination system permit and discharged pollutants into waters of United States without NPDES permit in spilling raw or partially treated sewage from its wastewater collection system through sanitary system overflows, because: (1) even though groups must establish that at least one of groups' members was injured by alleged violations to establish standing, members need not be named at pleading stage, and (2) groups adequately alleged injury in fact to their members' aesthetic and recreational use of waters and that alleged violations from SSOs contribute to pollution that impairs their enjoyment of local waterbodies.