Colorado Springs To Pay $13M To Resolve Suit Over Stormwater Discharges

(November 12, 2020, 8:08 AM EST) -- DENVER — The city of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Oct. 29 entered into an agreement in federal court in Colorado in which it agreed to pay $13 million to resolve a lawsuit brought by the federal government and others that claimed that it violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) by failing to implement a proper maintenance program for its stormwater sewer system and that discharges from the system contained levels of contaminants in excess of limits allowed by a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems (NPDES) permit....

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