U.S. v. COUNTY OF MUSKEGON

No. 1:97-CV-486.

33 F.Supp.2d 614 (1998)

UNITED STATES of America, et al., Plaintiffs, and City of Whitehall, et al., Intervenor Plaintiffs, and City of Roosevelt Park, et al., Added Plaintiffs, v. The COUNTY OF MUSKEGON, Defendant, and S.D. Warren Company, et al., Intervenor Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, Southern Division.

December 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Francesca Ferguson, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Michael H. Dettmer, U.S. Attorney, Grand Rapids, MI, Francis J. Biros, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Environmental Enforcement Section, Washington DC, Lois J. Schiffer, Environmental & Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for U.S., plaintiff.

John C. Scherbarth, Asst. Atty. General, Jennifer M. Granholm, Atty. General, Natural Resources Div., Lansing, MI, for State of Michigan, plaintiff.

Robert S. Engel, Robert S. Engel Law Offices, Muskegon, MI, for City of Roosevelt Park, plaintiff.

James M. Rose, Rose & Rose, Montague, MI, for Whitehall Tp. and Montague Tp., plaintiffs.

Stephen C. Corwin, Williams, Hughes, Corwin & Sininger, LLP, Muskegon, MI, for County of Muskegon, defendant.

Michael B. Ortega, Reed, Stover & O'Connor, PC, Kalamazoo, MI, for City of Whitehall, City of North Muskegon, City of Montague, Muskegon Chartered Tp., Dalton Tp., City of Muskegon, Laketon Tp. and City of Norton Shores, intervenor-plaintiffs.

G. Thomas Johnson, Parmenter & O'Toole, Muskegon, MI, for Egelston Tp, intervenor-plaintiff.

Dennis J. Donohue, Warner, Norcross & Judd, LLP, Grand Rapids, MI, for S.D. Warren Co., Burdick & Jackson Laboratories, ESCO, Howmet Corp., Lomas, Inc., Agrevo U.S.A. Co., Sun Chemical Corp., CWC Textron, Genesco, Inc., Dana Corp., Kaydon Cistom Bearings and Lorin Industries, Inc., intervenor-defendants.


OPINION RE MOTION FOR ENTRY OF CONSENT JUDGMENT AND MOTION TO LIMIT DISCOVERY

HILLMAN, Senior District Judge.

This case originally was brought by the United States against the County of Muskegon. The government's complaint alleges unlawful exceedances of the effluent limits of the county's permit issued by the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") under the Clean Water Act (the "NPDES permit"), as well as for failures to comply with EPA administrative...

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