United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, Civil Action 2:15-cv-6300
LEAN is suing as a “private attorney general” in a citizen suit to enforce the Clean Water Act and stop water pollution coming from Mo-Dad’s sewage pits north of Lake Pontchartrain. The utilities have been under order by the Louisiana Department Of Environmental Quality to fix the pits for years, but deadlines just keep getting pushed back and the work remains undone. LEAN seeks a federal court judgment to finally uphold the law and force the sewage pits to clean up their act. Clay Garside is lead attorney on the case, which is set for trial in January of 2017.