E-D Coat, Inc. v. East Bay Municipal Utility Dist.
After monitoring its industrial wastewater for years, East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) revoked the wastewater discharge permit of appellant E-D Coat, Inc. (E-D Coat) in June 2012, and later denied E-D Coat a zero wastewater discharge permit, because EBMUD’s sewer water testing showed E-D Coat was discharging zinc-contaminated wastewater into Oakland’s sewer system. E-D Coat denied that allegation and produced evidence that it had changed its metal plating process to use recycled water and no longer discharged any wastewater into the sewers. The administrative hearings became largely a battle of experts, and E-D Coat lost. It then filed a petition for writ of administrative mandate in superior court (Code Civ. Proc., § 1094.5), but its petition was denied.
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