Showdown at Ware Creek

In November, the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed a decision by the Army Corps of Engineers to issue a Federal Water Pollution Control Act §404 permit for the Two Forks Dam project on the Platter River in Colorado. Two weeks earlier, a Virginia district court judge overruled a similar §404 permit veto by the EPA for the construction of the Ware Creek Reservoir in James City County, Virginia. This case may have far-reaching implications for major projects like Two Forks Dam.