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January 12 2021
Willamette, Columbia Riverkeepers plan to sue Zenith Energy for violating the Clean Water Act in federal court.
Unpermitted construction at a crude oil shipping terminal on the banks of the Willamette River violated federal laws protecting several Oregon waterways from runoff pollution, two environmental groups claim.
The Riverkeeper groups for the Willamette and Columbia rivers announced their intentions to sue Zenith Energy Terminal Holdings, which operates the sprawling oil train unloading facility at 5501 N.W. Front Ave. in Portland, for impermissibly discharging pollutants since at least last April.
The pollution allegedly happens every time rain flows off the property into the river. In drizzly Rose City, that happened roughly 90 times every time more than 0.1 inches of precipitation fell in a 24-hour period the groups claim.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published draft guidance on how to apply the functional equivalent test created by the Supreme Court
in
County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, 140 S. Ct. 1462
(2020). The functional equivalent test is intended to
help determine if a Clean Water Act permit is needed when
pollutants are discharged to groundwater before reaching navigable
waters. The draft guidance reiterates threshold conditions that
must be satisfied to trigger the need for a Clean Water Act permit
and introduces a new factor relevant to the functional