INDUS. LIAISON v. WILLIAMS


131 A.D.2d 205 (1987)

In the Matter of Industrial Liaison Committee of the Niagara Falls Area Chamber of Commerce et al., Appellants, v. Henry G. Williams, as Commissioner of Environmental Conservation, Respondent, and Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., et al., Intervenors-Respondents. (And Another Related Proceeding.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

November 5, 1987


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna (John Hanna, Jr., of counsel), for appellants.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Francis J. Keehan of counsel), for respondent.

Philip Weinberg for intervenors-respondents.

Earl T. Robinson for Buffalo Area Advisory Council on Industrial Wastewater of the Buffalo Sewer Authority and another, amici curiae.

MAHONEY, P. J., CASEY, WEISS and HARVEY, JJ., concur.


MIKOLL, J.

The Environmental Conservation Law sets forth two primary ways to control water pollution: water quality standards (involving the purity of water itself [ECL 17-0301]), and effluent limitations (involving the discharge of chemical substances into the water [ECL 17-0801 et seq.]). Discharge of chemicals into the surface waters of New York is prohibited

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