Legal TREND. Groundwater Diffuse Case. US Supreme Court. Impact to state Legislation.

This week the US Supreme Court heard  Cty. of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, U.S., No. 18-260 which could impact wastewater discahrge by:

• factories
• pipelines
• sewer systems
• power plants
• petrochemical industries 

What is at issue? the impact of wastewater that seeps into groundwater 

The Supreme COurt is expected to answer whether “businesses freely dispose of pollution into a groundwater source if that pollution eventually flows into a body of water on the surface?”

Water Wastewater Digest | SUPREME COURT TO HEAR GROUNDWATER POLLUTION CASE

Los Angeles Times | Supreme Court to decide if Clean Water Act limits Hawaii’s underground wastewater dumping