In January of 2004, the U.S. District Court issued an order in favor of Northern California River Watch. In the ruling, the court held that a former excavation site, a 58 acre Basalt Pond, was adjacent to the Russian River and was within the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Thus, the City of Healdsburg must obtain a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit in order to discharge wastewater into the pond; unhappy with this ruling, they appealed it in court on November 16th, 2005.
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