WOTUS Continues To Be Problematic
Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, Shannon Ferrell, Southwest Farm Press
WOTUS. The gift that keeps on giving content for this annual article by agricultural lawyers.
The federal Clean Water Act prohibits discharges of pollutants to “waters of the United States” but when Congress passed the act in 1970, it failed to define the term. The past 50 years have left landowners, developers, policymakers, and courts trying to determine the meaning of this phrase.