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Court rules for poultry farmer in water case
Story Date: 10/30/2013
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Source: Nathan Bowen, NATIONAL ASSOC. OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE, 10/29/13
A federal judge ruled in favor of a West Virginia poultry farmer in a dispute over whether Clean Water Act NPDES permits were needed for farmyard runoff. In Alt v. EPA, the district court ruled that manure and litter runoff from a farmyard during a precipitation event is “an agricultural stormwater discharge and therefore not a point source discharge, thereby rendering it exempt from the NPDES permit requirement of the [CWA].”
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