Water Quality Law Updates
Water Quality Law Update - November 2005
Downey Brand LLP presents a history and updates of the Clean Water Act permitting requirements held to apply to the use of pesticides in water.
Water Quality Law Update - Fall 2005
Downey Brand assists amicus in a case upholding interim limits, compliance schedules, and interpreting antibacksliding provisions.
Water Quality Law Update - Summer 2005
Downey Brand secures remand of the appealed LA/Burbank Permits from the California Supreme Court to determine if the challenged permits are more stringent than federal law requirements and, thus, required consideration of state law factors, including economics.
Water Quality Law Alert - Spring 2002
Downey Brand representing the Cities of Los Angeles, Burbank, and Simi Valley and the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts successfully challengeed EPA's disapproval of implementation language contained in the Basin Plan related to the municipal drinking water use, which would have immediately imposed permit requirements more stringent than drinking water standards.
Water Quality Law Alert - Mandatory Minimum Penalties
Downey Brand's website makes available the most recent guidance documents from the State Water Resources Control Board's Office of Chief Counsel interpreting Water Code Section 13385 requirements for mandatory enforcement by Regional Water Quality Control Boards.
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