DEP Environmental Protection Invoices, 1999-2001

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the disputes of material fact and no need for discovery on All parties agree that there are no required, or amendment of the Zoning Resolution are issues of whether State legislative approval dispute identifies only a narrow area of possible factual which present questions of law, and Friends the Consent the reasons that follow, the State's application under in the remainder of its claims. For granted, and judgment in Norwood and Friends are Decree is denied, the City's motions for summary partial summary judgment is denied. the cross-motion by plaintiffs in Friends for

BACKGROUND

requirements, System, the statutory and regttlatory The background of the Croton Water Supply drinking water supply, the events leading up to the federal and state, applicable to ensuring a safe enforce compliance with the requirement of filtration of action by the United States and the State to opinions the Consent Decree, are described in my prior the Croton Watershed, and the salient terms of motions to 325 (E.D.N.Y. 1998), and denying certain approving the Consent Decree, 30 F. Supp. 2d denial of the opinion of the Second Circuit affirming intervene, 179 F.R.D. 373 (E.D.N.Y. 1998), and these therefore necessary only to summarize some of intervention, 198 F.3d 360 (2d Cir. 1999). It is

facts in this opinion. Surface Water 42 U.S.C. §300g-1 et seg., and the The Safe Drinking Water Act ("SDWA"), effectively thereunder, 40 C.F.R. §§ 141.70-75, Treatment Rule ("SWTR") promulgated by the EPA surface water, with limited exceptions. In 1992, the mandated filtration of public water systems using comply with the federal requirements. State Sanitary Code ("SSC") was amended to and areas supplying drinking water to the City The Croton Watershed is one of three principal

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