Mining Company Found Liable For Violating Clean Water Act; Trial Stayed

Mealey's (May 9, 2019, 11:37 AM EDT) -- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal judge in Alabama on May 7 found that Drummond Co. Inc. violated Section 402 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) by failing to have a permit for acid mine drainage (AMD) that migrated from ditches, channels, gullies, basins and a refuse pile at a former mining site into Locust Fork, holding that the discharges came from a point source into a navigable water of the United States (Black Warrior Riverkeeper Inc. v. Drummond Company Inc., No. 16-cv-01443-AKK, N.D. Ala., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 76858)....