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Federal And State Water Quality Regulation And Law In Missouri, Peter N. Davis
Federal And State Water Quality Regulation And Law In Missouri, Peter N. Davis
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This article discusses that law in two parts. The first part examines the federal and Missouri waste discharge regulatory system. The second part analyzes common law rights and remedies related to water pollution.
Protecting Waste Assimilation Streamflows By The Law Of Water Allocation, Nuisance, And Public Trust, And By Environmental Statutes, Peter N. Davis
Protecting Waste Assimilation Streamflows By The Law Of Water Allocation, Nuisance, And Public Trust, And By Environmental Statutes, Peter N. Davis
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Both federal and state water pollution control statutes require dramatic reductions in waste discharges, but not their total elimination. Those statutes require establishing water quality standards for receiving waters and presume that they will be adequate to assimilate the residual post treatment wastes. But nothing is those statutes assures that minimum flows for waste assimilation in fact will remain in existence. Neither the common law nor eastern and western diversion permit statutes expressly provide direct means for establishing such minimum protected flows for residual waste assimilation. Those means include establishing minimum flows for fish and wildlife habitat and recreation purposes …
The Riparian Right Of Streamflow Protection In The Eastern States, Peter N. Davis
The Riparian Right Of Streamflow Protection In The Eastern States, Peter N. Davis
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This article analyzes the extent to which the riparian doctrine can be employed to protect minimum streamflows for purposes of maintaining fish and wildlife habitat, recreational use capacity and waste assimilative capacity of watercourses in the eastern states.
Eastern Water Diversion Permit Statutes: Precedents For Missouri, Peter N. Davis
Eastern Water Diversion Permit Statutes: Precedents For Missouri, Peter N. Davis
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This Article examines the need in Missouri for a water diversion permit statute and suggests the form such a statute should take.
State Ownership Of Beds Of Inland Waters - A Summary And Reexamination, Peter N. Davis
State Ownership Of Beds Of Inland Waters - A Summary And Reexamination, Peter N. Davis
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This article will summarize the basic structure of bed title law and will examine its current status under the recent Supreme Court decisions. It will then analyze the cases to determine the location of title of beds of federally nonnavigable inland waters when a state created from a federal territory asserts such title.
Groundwater Pollution: Case Law Theories For Relief, Peter N. Davis
Groundwater Pollution: Case Law Theories For Relief, Peter N. Davis
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This article will describe how the courts have utilized the common law to deal with the groundwater pollution problem. I have attempted to examine every groundwater pollution case reported in the United States, England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.10 All of them, a total of 203, are listed in the Appendices. The purpose of this article is to analyze those cases to determine what rule the courts tend to use in particular kinds of groundwater pollution cases.
Wells And Streams: Relationship At Law, Peter N. Davis
Wells And Streams: Relationship At Law, Peter N. Davis
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Groundwater constitutes one of the major sources of water for municipalities, irrigators, and rural dwellers. Conflicts between groundwater users are bound to arise from time to time, as is evidenced by a recent Missouri case, Higday v. Nickolaus, discussed elsewhere in this issue.' Such conflicts may increase in frequency in the future as the demand for groundwater increases. Although a majority of cases will involve allocation of groundwater between users of that class of water, many groundwater diversion cases will involve adverse effects on the flow of water in streams. It is –to the latter situation that this article is …