MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A federal judge has ruled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has no legal right to force a West Virginia poultry grower to obtain water pollution permits for runoff from her Hardy County farm because it is routine stormwater discharge, a move poultry and livestock farmers view as a victory.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey said Oct. 23 that litter and manure washed by rain into Chesapeake Bay tributaries at Lois Alt's Hardy County farm is agricultural runoff, not a fixed pollution source such as a factory. That means it's exempt from the. . .
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