For those following stormwater regulatory issues, 2013 is proving to be a very interesting year. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a regulation exempting stormwater flows from logging roads
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Can You Really Go to Jail for Violating a Stormwater Permit?
By Hamilton Hackney III on
Posted in Stormwater
A recent criminal enforcement case confirms that the answer to this question is “yes.” In what it acknowledged was one of the first such cases in the country, the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) successfully prosecuted a construction contractor for criminal violations of a stormwater construction general permit covering discharges from a commercial development project in Washington. …
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