UNITED STATES v. CITY OF DETROIT

No. 82-1818.

720 F.2d 443 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF DETROIT, et al., Defendant-Appellees, v. COUNTY OF MUSKEGON, Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided October 26, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry J. Knudsen argued, Knudsen, Wasiura & Associates, Muskegon, Mich., for County of Muskegon.

Leonard R. Gilman, U.S. Atty., argued, Mark R. Werder, Asst. U.S. Atty., Detroit, Mich., for the U.S.

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen. of Mich., Louis J. Caruso, Sol. Gen., Thomas J. Emery, Lansing, Mich., for State of Mich.

William L. Cahalan, Joseph B. Klein, Detroit, Mich., for Wayne County Dept. of Health-Air Pollution Control.

James A. Smith, Kathleen A. Lieder, Detroit, Mich., for Macomb County.

Richard J. McClear, Robert J. Franzinger argued, Terrence E. Haggerty, Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg, Detroit, Mich., William P. Hampton, Davidson, Gotshall, Kohl, Secrest, Wardle, Lynch & Clark, Farmington Hills, Mich., for City of Detroit and Detroit Water and Sewerage Dept.

Before MERRITT and KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.


KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judge.

This case originated as a compliance action initiated in 1977 by the United States, at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), against the City of Detroit (Detroit), the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD), and the State of Michigan (Michigan), predicated upon defendants' alleged discharge of effluents and pollutants from wastewater and sewage facilities into navigable waters in violation of the Federal Water Pollution...

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