Washington Wilderness Coalition v. Hecla Mining Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining that ponds holding mining wastewater are point sources, “because the pond or pile acts to collect and channel contaminated water”
• reasoning that “since the goal of the CWA is to protect the quality of surface waters, any pollutant which enters such waters, whether directly or through groundwater, is subject to regulation by NPDES permit”
• “[P]ollutants must be traced from their source to surface waters, in order to come within the purview of the CWA.”
• ponds are point sources if they act to collect and channel contaminated water

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).